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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

They would love to migrate to an open-source style database like MySQL or PostgresSQL if only such a database could meet the enterprise-grade reliability and performance these high-scale applications required. In this paper, we describe the architecture of Aurora and the design considerations leading to that architecture.

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American Airlines Adopts Public Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

This critical failure has been highlighted by a number of newsworthy incidents including: · Delta, April 4, 2017 - Following storms that affected its Atlanta hub, Delta's crew-scheduling systems failed, causing days of operational issues for the airline. 23, 2017 - An outage at JetBlue forced the airline to check in passengers manually in Ft.

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DockerCon EU 2017 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote/general session at DockerCon EU 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark. Murr takes a few minutes to share how MetLife is using Docker and the internal transformation required in order for MetLife to truly take advantage of new application architectures with Docker and containers.

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Creating Your Digital Strategy

Cloud Musings

For 2017 this seems to be at the top of every executive to do list. Specifically, will your company become a: Data Producer - generate data from IoT and traditional big data sources (i.e. Its servlerless architecture is quickly instantiated with the scalability needed to meet the evolving demands of the modern user.

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LinuxKit Deep Dive

Scott Lowe

LinuxKit was first announced and open sourced in April 2017 at DockerCon in Austin. The demo shows using LinuxKit to build an identical image across three different architectures (x86, ARM64, and Raspberry Pi). Major additions since it was announced include: arm64 support. Improved Kubernetes support.

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Blockchain Business Innovation

Cloud Musings

Ready-made frameworks as also available from the Hyperledger Project , an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. Jackson 2017 ) Follow me at [link]. For more content like this, visit ITBizAdvisor. Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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The Best eBook Platforms for the Post-Readium Era

Kitaboo

Google had indicated back in 2017 about the impending changes. Evident Point is one of the major contributors of Readium Architecture and Readium Web. The old ReadiumJS architecture would work on any HTML5 browser. Readium strived to provide a solid foundation for an open source ePUB3 reader built on web kit.

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