All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. DynamoDB One Year Later: Bigger, Better, and 85% Cheaperâ?¦. By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Time passes very quickly around here and I hadnâ??t realized until recently that over a year has gone by since we launched DynamoDB.

Ecommerce 131

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 131

The Agile Manager

MARCH 18, 2013

Soon after the financial crisis began in 2008, companies shifted attention from finance to operations. Finance had fallen out of favour: risk capital dried up, asset prices collapsed and capital sought safe havens like US Treasurys. The crisis also ushered in a period of tepid growth undermined by persistent economic uncertainty. This limited the financial options companies could use to juice returns, so they focused on investing in operations to create efficiencies or fight for market share.

Engineering 40

Engineering Innovation Government Hardware 40

Sutter's Mill

MARCH 14, 2013

Bjarne Stroustrup wrote the following a few minutes ago on the concepts mailing list : Let me take this opportunity to remind people that. "being able to do something is not sufficient reason for doing it" and. "being able to do every trick is not a feature but a bug" For the latter, remember Dijkstra’s famous "Goto considered harmful" paper.

Programming 40

Programming Virtualization C++ Development 40

All Things Distributed

MARCH 20, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. The Netflix OSS Cloud Prize. By Werner Vogels on 20 March 2013 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Netflix has over the years become one of the absolute best engineering powerhouses for building cloud-native applications. At AWS we are very proud to be their infrastructure partner and every day we learn from how they use our cloud services.

Cloud 98

Cloud AWS Open Source Infrastructure 98

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Elastic Beanstalk a la Node. By Werner Vogels on 11 March 2013 04:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I spent a lot of time talking to AWS developers, many working in the gaming and mobile space, and most of them have been finding Node.js well suited for their web applications.

AWS 92

AWS Mobile Games Java 92

All Things Distributed

MARCH 29, 2013

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery. By Werner Vogels on 29 March 2013 03:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have been reading mainly newer papers in the beginning of this year, but it is time to get back to the basics and start reading some more historical papers again.

Database 67

Database Scalability Engineering Systems 67