All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The new AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region will have three Availability Zones and provide lower latency to end users across Sub-Saharan Africa. AWS has been an active member of the local technology community since 2004. This has helped unearth innovative startups like Asoriba. We have a long history in South Africa.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

Amazon DynamoDB offers low, predictable latencies at any scale. A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries. s read latency, particularly as dataset sizes grow. Amazon DynamoDB provides high throughput at very low latency.

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Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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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Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

You could create and update blog posts, all content was straight HTML — open-source WYSIWYG editors weren’t available at the time, and Markdown didn’t come about until 2004. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. The caching of data pages and grouping of log records helps remove much, if not all, of the command latency associated with a write operation.

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