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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 28th, 2018

High Scalability

They sent me long email listing reasons why I shouldn't get a second monitor, including (numbers are approximate, employee count from 2013 or so) "If every googler gets an extra monitor, in a year it would be equivalent to driving Toyota Camry for 18000 miles.". After all, nobody gets fired from creating a hierarchy. JavaScript benchmark.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For October 19th, 2018

High Scalability

One in 10 people in the UK use illegal downloads, down from 18% in 2013, according to YouGov's Music Report. 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).

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AWS re:Invent 2013 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re:Invent 2013. By Werner Vogels on 17 July 2013 05:00 PM. All Things Distributed. Comments (). The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time.

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PostgreSQL vs. Oracle: Difference in Costs, Ease of Use & Functionality

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While Oracle remains the #1 database on the market, its popularity has steadily declined by over 18% since 2013. Scalability. PostgreSQL offers free scalability, and can scale up to millions of transactions per seconds. Oracle Enterprise is recommended for high workloads which are highly scalable, but costly. PostgreSQL.

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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

Lamborghini, the world-famous manufacturer of elite, luxury sports cars based in Italy, has been using AWS to reduce the cost of their infrastructure by 50 percent, while also achieving better performance and scalability. The company decided it wanted the scalability, flexibility, and cost benefits of working in the cloud.

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Survey of Local Algorithms

All Things Distributed

Being highly scalable and fault tolerant, such algorithms are ideal in the operation of large-scale distributed systems. Survey of Local Algorithms , Jukka Suomela, in ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Surveys, Volume 45 Issue 2, February 2013, Article No.

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“256 cores by 2013”?

Sutter's Mill

So: Was I was right about 2013 estimates? Remember this was written over three years ago – in the Time Before iPad, when Android was under a year old: How Much Scalability Does Your Application Need? release (early 2012) and probably another 18 months after that before most users will have upgraded (mid-2013).