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Technology Short Take 138

Scott Lowe

I didn’t do so well on storage links; apologies to my storage-focused friends! Want/need to better understand IPv6? Operating Systems/Applications. Alex Gurbych discusses a microservices architecture, including adapting the concepts to actual services and offerings from AWS. Networking. Virtualization.

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

All Things Distributed

AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. 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.

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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 Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

Simon Leinen (from SWITCHengines) explains their use of IPv6 with OpenStack. Operating Systems/Applications. Flatpak is a (relatively) new application packaging/sandboxing mechanism for Linux applications. I won’t steal Matt’s thunder; go have a look at the post yourself to see if you agree with his assessment.

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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.

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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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