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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

All you have to worry about it is the application that runs on the database. FanDuel offers online fantasy sports (think fantasy football). In the first generation version of the application, it was a LAMP stack with PHP code running on MySQL. Where is FanDuel’s application now? Why use managed databases?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

And that was 10 digital ocean servers on the front end and the load balancer there, and another 10 digital ocean servers on the back end, so the front end would run all the CTF D front end instances, and there'd be a read a server and a MySQL database off, kind of in their own land but not behind a load balancer.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

And that was 10 digital ocean servers on the front end and the load balancer there, and another 10 digital ocean servers on the back end, so the front end would run all the CTF D front end instances, and there'd be a read a server and a MySQL database off, kind of in their own land but not behind a load balancer.

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An Interview with Jesse Proudman

Scott Lowe

In 2003, I founded Blue Box from my college dorm room to be a managed hosting company focused on overcoming the complexities of highly customized open source infrastructure running high traffic web applications. These organizations are deploying applications into hosted private clouds, seeing the value proposition that can bring.

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DockerCon 2016 Day 1 Keynote

Scott Lowe

Golub calls out a few particular sessions—protein folding, data analysis in sports, and extending a video game—and then unveils that these sessions are being presented by kids under the age of 13. Golub begins his portion with a quick “look back” at milestones from previous Docker events and the history of Docker (the open source project).