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Diving Deep on S3 Consistency

All Things Distributed

I recently posted about Amazon S3 and how it’s evolved over the last 15 years since we launched the service in 2006 as “storage for the internet.” ” We built S3 because we knew customers wanted to store backups, videos, and images for applications like e-commerce web sites.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

Woods and Hollnagel, 2006). Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). They'll love you even more. I wanted to get more women on Echo to make it better.

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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

Leading UK organizations were among the early adopters of the cloud when we first started AWS back in 2006 and we continue to help them drive increased agility, lower IT costs, and easily scale globally.

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Webinar Tuesday, 8/28: Forking or Branching – Lessons from the MySQL Community

Percona

Peter Zaitsev co-founded Percona and assumed the role of CEO in 2006. With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. Register for the webinar. Peter Zaitsev, CEO and Co-Founder.

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Upcoming Webinar Tuesday, 7/31: Using MySQL for Distributed Database Architectures

Percona

Peter Zaitsev co-founded Percona and assumed the role of CEO in 2006. With over 140 professionals in 30 plus countries, Peter’s venture now serves over 3000 customers – including the “who’s who” of internet giants, large enterprises and many exciting startups. Register for the webinar. Peter Zaitsev, CEO and Co-Founder.

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The psychology of site speed and human happiness

Speed Curve

The internet may change, and web pages may grow and evolve, but user expectations are constant. Over the past dozen or so years, user surveys have revealed that what we claim to want changes over time – from 8-second load times back in 1999 to 4 seconds in 2006 to around 2 seconds today.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.

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