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Please see The Updated Big List Of Articles On The Amazon Outage for a new improved list. So many great articles have been written on the Amazon Outage. Some aim at being helpful, some chastise developers for being so stupid, some chastise Amazon for being so incompetent, some talk about
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Submitted for your reading pleasure on the day, deep breath, before Dr. Who invades the USA... * The Great SkyNet Day Amazon Downtime roundup: Detailed thread on Hacker News; Who is affected by EC2?, Amazon Web Services Starting to Come Back Online but Problems Persist and Questions Unfold, AWS is down:
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The main thrust of the Packet Pushers Show 41 episode was to reveal and ruminate over the horrors of a successful attack on RSA, which puts the whole world security complex at risk. Near the end, at about 46 minutes in, there was an excellent section on how to go
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This is a hilarious presentation by Josh Berkus, called Scale Fail, given at O'Reilly MySQL CE 2011. Josh is entertaining, well spoken, and cleverly hides insight inside chaos. And he makes some dang good points along the way. Josh has a problem, you see Josh has learned how
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Matt Aslett from the 451 group created a term called “NewSQL”. On the definition of NewSQL, Aslett writes: “NewSQL” is our shorthand for the various new scalable/high performance SQL database vendors. We have previously referred to these products as ‘ScalableSQL’ to differentiate them from the incumbent relational database products.
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Using this strategy, Valyala, a commenter on Are Long VM Instance Spin-Up Times In The Cloud Costing You Money?, was able to reduce their GAE application start-up times from 15 seconds down to to 1.5 seconds: Spin-up time for newly added Google AppEngine instances can be reduced using initial
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Christof Strauch, from Stuttgart Media University, has written an incredible 120+ page paper titled NoSQL Databases as an introduction and overview to NoSQL databases . The paper was written between 2010-06 and 2011-02, so it may be a bit out of date, but if you are looking to take in the
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Mozilla processes TB's of Firefox crash reports daily using HBase, Hadoop, Python and Thrift protocol. The project is called Socorro, a system for collecting, processing, and displaying crash reports from clients. Today the Socorro application stores about 2.6 million crash reports per day. During peak traffic, it
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Let's play a quick game of truth or sacrilage: are SQL and NoSQL are really just two sides of the same coin? That's what Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman would have us believe in their "we can all get along and make a lot of