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What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

PostgreSQL has powerful and advanced features, including asynchronous replication, full-text searches of the database, and native support for JSON-style storage, key-value storage, and XML. Social media platforms: Companies use PostgreSQL to manage user profiles, posts, connections, and interactions.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. Just dropping your website in an S3 bucket brings all that power to you.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Canada (Central) Region

All Things Distributed

Given this, enterprises, public sector bodies, startups, and small businesses are looking to adopt agile, scalable, and secure public cloud solutions. Access to secure, scalable, low-cost AWS infrastructure in Canada allows customers to innovate and provide tools to meet privacy, sovereignty, and compliance requirements. Scalability.

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Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

The resource loading waterfall is a cascade of files downloaded from the network server to the client to load your website from start to finish. Assuming you want to load a social media layout, you might add a loading spinner or a skeleton loader to ensure that you don’t load an incomplete site. Well, yes, but you can load it faster.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

In my many conversations with customers, and with the media, I encountered surprise and excitement about the extent that European enterprises have already been using the Amazon Web Services for some time. Essent currently hosts all of their public facing websites and customer self-service portals in the AWS cloud.

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Hacking with AWS at The Next Web Hackaton - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The TNW team is doing a great job in getting an excellent program together that draws an audience from around the world, not just Europe, and there is an interesting mix of startups, enterprises, investors and media attending. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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