All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

We have also reduced our underlying costs through significant technical innovations from our engineering team. Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. s prices by 70%.

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Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 119

O'Reilly

MARCH 4, 2020

When I interviewed Freeman on stage at OSCON in 2004 , along with his son George, the subject strayed to digital preservation. I lamented how much would be lost due to incompatible standards for information storage, and he said, “Oh no, forgetting is so important! It is what gives room for new ideas to come in.”

Storage 145

Storage Speed Systems Design 145

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.

Internet 110

Internet Internet AWS Performance 110

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform. A number of outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling commercial technologies beyond their boundaries.

Scalability 162

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 162

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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. I also helped out in the run-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics. Nothing went wrong, I got to see some events, and got very cold at times.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms. Streams ​​ NTFS volumes ​​ enable ​​ data files to have one or more secondary storage streams.

Servers 40

Servers Cache Database Media 40