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Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral

Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

After working with DynamoDB for only three days, they had already managed to go from the design phase to a fully production-ready deployment that could handle the biggest advertising event of the year. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. How are we able to do this?

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

All Things Distributed

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. So, we set out to build a fully hosted AWS database service based upon the original Dynamo design. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How good is a new typeface, and how good is it compared to a similar typeface designed in previous years? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?

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What Is Hyperautomation?

O'Reilly

Selenium , the first tool for automated browser testing (2004), could be programmed to find fields on a web page, click on them or insert text, click “submit,” scrape the resulting web page, and collect results. You analyze what your staff does to process an invoice, and then design a system to perform that process.

Games 141
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Data Redundancy With the PostgreSQL Citus Extension

Percona

Depending on the configuration, one can tune a hardware RAID for either performance or redundancy. Percona Distribution for PostgreSQL provides the best and most critical enterprise components from the open-source community in a single distribution, designed and tested to work together. The same can be said for Citus data sharding.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

Microsoft SQL Server I/O Basics Author: ​​ Bob Dorr, Microsoft SQL Server Escalation Published: ​​ December, 2004 SUMMARY: ​​ Learn the I/O requirements for Microsoft SQL Server database file operations. © ​​ 2004 Microsoft Corporation. ​​ All rights reserved.

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