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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. Comments ().

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Let's Encrypt: an automated certificate authority to encrypt the entire web

The Morning Paper

This paper tells the story of Let’s Encrypt, from it’s early beginnings in 2012/13 all the way to becoming the world’s largest HTTPS Certificate Authority (CA) today – accounting for more currently valid certificates than all other browser-trusted CAs combined. The Internet Security Research Group.

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USENIX LISA2021 Computing Performance: On the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

BBR: Congestion-Based Congestion Control,” [link] 2016 - [Gregg 16] Brendan Gregg, “Unikernel Profiling: Flame Graphs from dom0,” [link] Jan 2016 - [Gregg 16b] Brendan Gregg, “Linux 4.X I followed that practice when writing some earlier books, and it has since struck me as unfair that some references had author names and some didn't.

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Document Model Support in DynamoDB: Flexibility, Availability, Performance, and Scale.Together at last

All Things Distributed

We designed DynamoDB to operate with at least 99.999% availability. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services. These databases trade off complex querying capabilities and consistency for scale and availability.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Naming and Binding - All.

All Things Distributed

By Werner Vogels on 11 August 2012 10:00 AM. It was republished as an IETF RFC given it importance for the design of internet systems: Saltzer, J. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - On Naming and Binding. Comments ().

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%.