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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 March 22nd, 2019

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Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. skamille : I worry that the cloud is just moving us back to a world of proprietary software. BrentToderian : What city went from 14% of all trips by bike in 2001, to 22% by 2012, then leaped to 30% in 3 years by 2015, & 35% by 2018?

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

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In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption. Take Peterborough City Council as an example.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

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Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing the AWS Asia Pacific (Seoul) Region

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A region in South Korea has been highly requested by companies around the world who want to take full advantage of Korea’s world-leading Internet connectivity and provide their customers with quick, low-latency access to websites, mobile applications, games, SaaS applications, and more.

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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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Cloud computing in Europe should put power in the hands of the customer

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This is the promise – and the reality – of cloud computing which is driving tremendous change in the technology industry and transforming how we do business in Europe and around the world. Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes.

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