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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

Storage was one of our biggest pain points, and the traditional systems we used just weren’t fitting the needs of the Amazon.com retail business. When we took a hard look at our storage for the Amazon ecommerce web site in 2005, we realized that the majority of our data needed an object (or key-value) store.

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How unified data and analytics offers a new approach to software intelligence

Dynatrace

For example, users generate user data, ecommerce sites generate business data, and service portals generate service desk tickets and call volume data. Traditionally, though, to gain true business insight, organizations had to make tradeoffs between accessing quality, real-time data and factors such as data storage costs.

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DynamoDB One Year Later - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Indexed Storage costs : We are lowering the price of indexed storage by 75%. Virginia) Region, the price of data storage will drop from $1 per GB per month to $0.25. DynamoDB runs on a fleet of SSD-backed storage servers that are specifically designed to support DynamoDB. s prices by 70%. For example, in our US East (N.

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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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AWS EKS Monitoring as a Self-Service with Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Instead of presenting you with a handful of random screenshots from our demo environment I reached out to Robert, a close friend of mine, who leads a development team with the current task to re-architect and re-platform their multi-tenant SaaS-based eCommerce platform. PostgreSQL & Elastic for data storage. REDIS for caching.

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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

Highly Scalable

And this was where a new evolution of data models began: Key-Value storage is a very simplistic, but very powerful model. This figure depicts modeling of a product entity for an eCommerce business domain. Besides this, elimination of these features had an extremely important influence on the performance and scalability of the stores.

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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. Storage nodes are basically Coherence storage nodes.

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