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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 They'll love it and you'll be their hero forever. million : concurrent Fortnite players; 6.2 during the 2017-18 academic year, on top of a 3.3%

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Pushy to the Limit: Evolving Netflix’s WebSocket proxy for the future

The Netflix TechBlog

Where aws ends and the internet begins is an exercise left to the reader. This device to device messaging supported early phone-to-TV communication in support of games like Triviaverse, and it’s the messaging foundation for our Companion Mode as TVs and phones communicate back and forth.

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Six things that slow down your site's UX (and why you have no control over them)

Speed Curve

They're concerned about internet security, so they'e also running antivirus software. They think they have high-speed internet because they're paying their service provider for it, but they're using an eight-year-old modem. The number of internet users in your house could increase your download speed needs by 2X or more.

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A one size fits all database doesn't fit anyone

All Things Distributed

We are increasingly seeing customers wanting to build Internet-scale applications that require diverse data models. Typical use cases for a relational database include web and mobile applications, enterprise applications, and online gaming. Purpose-built databases. Queries that used to take 30 seconds now take one second.

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Embrace event-driven computing: Amazon expands DynamoDB with streams, cross-region replication, and database triggers

All Things Distributed

In just three short years, Amazon DynamoDB has emerged as the backbone for many powerful Internet applications such as AdRoll , Druva , DeviceScape , and Battlecamp. Using streams, you can apply the changes to a full-text search data store such as Elasticsearch, push incremental backups to Amazon S3, or maintain an up-to-date read cache.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks. Beyond running their web properties and applications, Next Digital also uses Amazon RDS (database), Amazon ElastiCache (caching), and Amazon Redshift (data warehousing).

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

Consistent improvement is the name of the game, and it can still have positive impacts, particularly as users lean on the system more heavily over time. Real-time network protocols for enabling videoconferencing, desktop sharing, and game streaming applications. Critical for gaming with a mouse. Converging Views. Gamepad API.

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