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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I really enjoyed the variety of working with several different customers every day, on different problems, and being part of an extremely innovative and fast growing company. At one point we had two conflicting high availability products from different teams, who weren’t cooperating. He hasn’t changed.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to South Africa!

All Things Distributed

Expanding the AWS Cloud—An AWS Region is coming to South Africa! Today, I am excited to announce our plans to open a new AWS Region in South Africa! AWS is committed to South Africa's transformation. This news marks the 23rd AWS Region that we have announced globally. We have a long history in South Africa.

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

All Things Distributed

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. ’ Before MovableType, other personal blogging platforms were available such as Geocities , Blogger & Open Diary. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

It is very gratifying to see all of our learning and experience become available to our customers in the form of an easy-to-use managed service. A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. History of NoSQL at Amazon â??