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

High Scalability

While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet.

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

High Scalability

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. book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. decline the year before.".

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

High Scalability

While the internet and the web are inherently decentralized, mainstream applications built on top do not have to be. We do have new decentalized services : Bitcoin(2009), Minecraft(2009), Ethereum(2104), IPFS(2015), Mastadon(2016), and PeerTube(2018). We're still waiting on Pied Piper to deliver the decentralized internet.

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

Dynatrace

The vulnerability enables a remote attacker to take control of a device on the internet if the device is running certain versions of Log4j 2. Operation Aurora was a series of cyberattacks in 2009 that specifically targeted major enterprises, including Google, Adobe Systems, Yahoo, and more.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

This is a very good thing to have, in fact Netflix built in monitoring for all users at the start of it’s streaming launch in 2007, and it was the very first workload that moved to AWS in 2009. which provides this as a service and where the chief architect and CTO are both ex-Netflix colleagues of mine.

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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

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. Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers.

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Fostering a Web Performance Culture

Jos

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. In fact, Stockholm was the first city in installing 4G back in 2009. I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device.