All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

As I sat down with the DynamoDB team to review our progress over the last year, I realized that DynamoDB had surpassed even my own expectations for how easily applications could achieve massive scale and high availability with DynamoDB. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25.

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KeyCDN

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

For example, if a lookup fails and times out to your first DNS server it queries the next DNS server until the correct IP address is returned, or it is unable to resolve as seen in the infamous "This webpage is not available" error below. Oddly enough we encountered this error to a third party website while writing this article.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

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. s web-based applications often encounter database scaling challenges when faced with growth in users, traffic, and data. Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale.

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Percona

JUNE 2, 2023

And if your blog got Slashdotted or just a high level of traffic in general? Out of the box, MySQL was fine for a decent amount of traffic but would fall over pretty quickly if hit with a sustained burst of traffic. Experienced MySQL admins could tune MySQL to handle the heavy traffic loads for more popular sites.

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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. I had tried this in 2004 ([socketsnoop.d]) and published it as open source, but my tool was incomplete: I didn't have access to the kernel source code so I had to figure out everything the hard way using black box analysis.

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The ability to modify the headers of traffic that pass through your browser is a great tool to have. It was developed in 2004. This is only available as a Python module. That was when I first got to witness the power of network headers. They carry data about the data being transferred. Useful tips on front-end & UX.

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