All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

It all started in 2004 when Amazon was running Oracle's enterprise edition with clustering and replication. In addition, DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache further speeds up DynamoDB response times from milliseconds to microseconds and can continue to do so at millions of requests per second.

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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. We can see all the bones of modern Jamstack CMSs here. MovableType really was before its time. Large scale blogs. Dynamic functionality.

Ecommerce 142

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 142

Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

(There are advanced techniques that involve dumping and restarting an isolated portion of possibly tainted state, but that’s a system-level recovery strategy for an impossible-to-handle fault, not a handling strategy for run-time error.) C++ Coding Standards (Addison-Wesley, 2004). 2] Alan Turing. 67-9, June 1949). [3]

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SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

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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Adrian Cockcroft

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I saw this play out while I was at Sun Microsystems as the dot com bubble burst in 2001–2004. Simplify processes to reduce bureaucracy and management overhead, speed up time-to-value, and take advantage of the gaps in the market that appear as competitors fail. As an employee, it’s usually best to leave in the first wave of cuts.

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AWS Energy Innovation Strategy 98

SQL Server According to Bob

JANUARY 11, 2020

Restore backups on secondary systems ​​ frequently ​​ to make sure that your complete backup strategy is functioning correctly. Make sure that you ​​ understand any ​​ write-caching strategies ​​ that the utility ​​ uses.

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Alex Russell

OCTOBER 27, 2024

But that's not what strategy demands, and strategy is my job. [1] Sure, developing a codebase multiple time was more expensive than the web's write-once-test-everywhere approach, but at least you got speed for the effort. Today's popular JS-based approaches are simply unsafe at any speed. But why do I care?

Strategy 76

Strategy Mobile Google Social Media 76