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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago? Centralized wins. Decentralized loses.

High Scalability

For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

High Scalability

Know anyone looking for a simple book explaining the cloud? book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. 8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 Me : Clearing the Air on Cloud, 2009.

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What do you believe now that you didn't five years ago?

High Scalability

For all the idealistic technical reasons I laid out long ago in Building Super Scalable Systems: Blade Runner Meets Autonomic Computing In The Ambient Cloud. While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. —are all centralized. That wasn't always the case.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Since we launched Amazon RDS for MySQL in October 2009 , it has become one of the most popular services on AWS, with customers such as Intuit using the service to keep up with the steep increase in traffic during the tax season.

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So many bad takes?—?What is there to learn from the Prime Video microservices to monolith story

Adrian Cockcroft

There is some truth to that, as I do think microservices were over sold as the answer to everything, and I think this may have arisen from vendors who wanted to sell Kubernetes with a simple marketing message that enterprises needed to modernize by using Kubernetes to do cloud native microservices for everything.

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Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - New AWS Region: US-West (Northern California). By Werner Vogels on 02 December 2009 05:00 PM. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Expanding the Cloud â?? All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances - All Things.

All Things Distributed

Expanding the Cloud - Amazon EC2 Spot Instances. By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. Expanding the Cloud - The AWS Storage Gateway. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Expanding the Cloud â?? Expanding the Cloud - Introducing Amazon ElastiCache.

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