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Time to First Byte: What It Is and Why It Matters

CSS Wizardry

Cheap hosting: Hosting that is optimised for cost over performance usually means you’re sharing a server with any number of other websites, so expect degraded server performance which could affect your ability to fulfil requests, or may simply mean underpowered hardware trying to run your application.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. ve been working hard over the past year to improve storage density and bring down the costs of our underlying hardware platform. When is it appropriate to use DynamoDB? As Amazonâ??s

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Amazon DynamoDB ? a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database.

All Things Distributed

The Amazon.com ecommerce platform consists of hundreds of decoupled services developed and managed in a decentralized fashion. In response, we began to develop a collection of storage and database technologies to address the demanding scalability and reliability requirements of the Amazon.com ecommerce platform.

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Hierarchical Navigation and Faceted Search on Top of Oracle Coherence

Highly Scalable

From the business logic point of view, this was a pretty typical eCommerce service for hierarchical and faceted navigation, although not without peculiarities, but high performance requirements led us to the quite advanced architecture and technical design. Business Logic: Hierarchical and Faceted Navigation.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

They require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

On-premise BI tools also require companies to provision and maintain complex hardware infrastructure and invest in expensive software licenses, maintenance fees, and support fees that cost upwards of thousands of dollars per user per year.

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Monitoring: Why focus on the end user experience?

Rigor

Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” Instead of focusing on hardware and infrastructure first, technical teams should first ensure that they first have visibility on the thing that drives the business: their customer experience. Instead of asking that question, I asked them this: “Are you a network or hosting provider?