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What is Passive DNS and how do you leverage it in research?

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The basic Passive DNS architecture is a replication technique where inter-server DNS messages are captured by sensors. A good way to think about DNS is to look at the contacts application on your mobile phone. DNS works like a contact application for the Internet.

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Job Openings in AWS - Senior Leader in Database Services - All.

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This team is constantly rethinking the assumptions behind how traditional databases were built and constantly working on building the right database architectures suited for the Cloud environment. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Visiting future customers is equally exiting as you get a change to understand their current architecture, if it is a migration, and how they plan to exploit cloud services in their new setup. Both with existing and new applications we can sometimes help with explaining some of the best practices we have seen at other customers.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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This week in review: GPUs, Zombies, Biomimicry and Tom Waits.

All Things Distributed

Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures - background article in CACM on massively parallel and throughput vs latency oriented architectures. The Big Idea: Biomimetic Architecture - The National Geographic came in the mail this week with a beautiful pull-out of Gaudís Sagrada Família, the online version is only a summary.

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Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 - All.

All Things Distributed

DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high on the wish list of our customers for some time already. While registrars manage the namespace in the DNS naming architecture, DNS servers are used to provide the mapping between names and the addresses used to identify an access point. No lock-in.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. APAC Summer Tour.

SOA 151