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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. In DNS, this is known as an "A" record and is one of many different record types including, but not limited to AAAA (IPv6), MX (mail), NS (nameserver), and TXT (text).

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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. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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

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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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Around the World in 28 Days - All Things Distributed

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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. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. update 10/01: added the GameDuel TechTalk. Contact Info.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Additionally, many high-end HPC applications take advantage of knowing their in-house hardware platforms to achieve major speedup by exploiting the specific processor architecture. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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

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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. CTO - Amazon.com. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more. The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon. Our technologies are almost exclusively implemented as services : bits of logic that encapsulate the data they operate on and provide hardened interfaces as the only way to access their functionality. CTO - Amazon.com.

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