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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. The original Dynamo design was based on a core set of strong distributed systems principles resulting in an ultra-scalable and highly reliable database system.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. The whole company was a few hundred people.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. s fast and easy scalability can be quickly applied to building high scale applications. A number of high profile outages at the height of the 2004 holiday shopping season can be traced back to scaling relational database technologies beyond their capabilities.

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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. 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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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Epidemics - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. I realized that in 2004, before my Amazon days, I already wrote a blog post about the fundamental publications in the area of epidemics, so this seems like a good moment to revisit that with updated links, etc. reliable and scalable distributed systems.

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Powering the Web: Two Decades of Open Source Publishing With WordPress and MySQL

Percona

Firefox wouldn’t see its first release until November of 2004 and didn’t start seeing widespread adoption until years later. Developers, system administrators, database administrators, and enthusiasts were hip deep in open source operating systems, programming languages, and open databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Not so much.

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An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. 2004: Green Day, American Idiot. All Things Distributed. An Album for Each Year - 2012 Version. By Werner Vogels on 22 December 2012 06:00 PM. Comments (). About 5 years ago I joined a challenge to list "a favorite album for every year of your life."

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