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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

These algorithms save everyone time and money: by helping users navigate through thousands of products to find the ones with the highest quality and the lowest price, and by expanding the market reach of suppliers through Amazon’s delivery infrastructure and immense customer network.

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Monitoring: Why focus on the end user experience?

Rigor

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider? Conclusion.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. Barry Pollard. Barry Pollard. Fastly @ fastly.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

Greenplum interconnect is the networking layer of the architecture, and manages communication between the Greenplum segments and master host network infrastructure. If you have mirroring enabled, you must increase your segment hosts in increments of at least two. So, how is this all coordinated? Greenplum Advantages.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

Our straining database infrastructure on Oracle led us to evaluate if we could develop a purpose-built database that would support our business needs for the long term. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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Nines are not enough: meaningful metrics for clouds

The Morning Paper

Control loop SLOs express the active management actions a provider will take, e.g. shedding of low-priority load will occur on over-utilised network links. The VM is reachable from the Internet? As a simple example, an SLO around network throughput might rely on the customer running software capable of driving the network fast enough.

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