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Geek Reading - Week of June 5, 2013

DZone

Improving testing by using real traffic from production ( Hacker News). Dew Drop – June 5, 2013 (#1,561) ( Alvin Ashcraft's Morning Dew). The Daily Six Pack: June 5, 2013 ( Dirk Strauss). A handy list of RSS readers with feature comparisons ( Hacker News). Why haven’t cash-strapped American schools embraced open source?

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Evolving Regional Evacuation

The Netflix TechBlog

In the event of an isolated failure we first pre-scale microservices in the healthy regions after which we can shift traffic away from the failing one. In 2013 we first developed our multi-regional availability strategy in response to a catalyst that led us to re-architect the way our service operates.

Traffic 191
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Ciao Milano! – An AWS Region is coming to Italy!

All Things Distributed

The website went online in less than one month and was able to support a 250 percent increase in traffic around the launch of the Aventador J. To meet such large traffic numbers, they need a technology infrastructure that is secure, reliable, and flexible. In 2013, we launched a dedicated program called AWS Activate.

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The Best Way to Host MongoDB on DigitalOcean

Scalegrid

While adequate for low-traffic applications, small databases, and dev/test environments, we recommend against leveraging shared clusters for your MongoDB production deployments. DigitalOcean specialized in SSD-based virtual machines called Droplets that are broken down into four simple categories.

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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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Downtime vs slowtime: Which costs you more?

Speed Curve

Some of you may remember the Amazon outage of 2013, when the retail behemoth went down for 40 minutes. A correlation chart gives you a histogram view (represented in the yellow bars in the chart below) of all your user traffic, broken out into cohorts based on performance metrics (such as Start Render and Largest Contentful Paint).

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones.

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