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The Easiest Way to Compute in the Cloud – AWS Lambda

All Things Distributed

Our answer is a new compute service called AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda makes building and delivering applications much easier by giving you a simple interface to upload your Node.js You can go from code to service in three clicks and then let AWS Lambda take care of the rest.

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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

All Things Distributed

DynamoDB Streams is the enabling technology behind two other features announced today: cross-region replication maintains identical copies of DynamoDB tables across AWS regions with push-button ease, and triggers execute AWS Lambda functions on streams, allowing you to respond to changing data conditions. Let me expand on each one of them.

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In-Stream Big Data Processing

Highly Scalable

This system has been designed to supplement and succeed the existing Hadoop-based system that had too high latency of data processing and too high maintenance costs. High performance and mobility. Moreover, techniques like Lambda Architecture [6, 7] were developed and adopted to combine these solutions efficiently.

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Expanding the Cloud: Amazon Machine Learning Service, the Amazon Elastic Filesystem and more

All Things Distributed

Amazon Lambda. One of the most exciting technologies we have built lately at AWS is Amazon Lambda. A great example by Valentino in the AWSSummit today was the use of Lambda by Adroll to deliver real-time updates around the word to their DynamoDB instances. Today Amazon Lambda is entering General Availability.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Use cases such as gaming, ad tech, and IoT lend themselves particularly well to the key-value data model where the access patterns require low-latency Gets/Puts for known key values.

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Accelerating Data: Faster and More Scalable ElastiCache for Redis

All Things Distributed

Three years ago, as part of our AWS Fast Data journey we introduced Amazon ElastiCache for Redis , a fully managed in-memory data store that operates at sub-millisecond latency. This allows for faster failover times while minimizing latency. Building upon Redis. Redis and Fast Data.

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Content Management Systems of the Future: Headless, JAMstack, ADN and Functions at the Edge

Abhishek Tiwari

Using CDN for the whole website, you can offload most of the website traffic to your CDN which will handle not only large traffic spikes but also reduce the latency of content delivery. Secondly, having a CDN in front of origin (static site or APIs) reduces the global and regional latency. Decoupled CMS vs. headless CMS.

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