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Riak Core: Dynamo Building Blocks

Topics
Data Access,
Architecture,
Big Data

Andy Gross discusses the design philosophy behind Riak based on Amazon Dynamo - Gossip Protocol, Consistent Hashing, Vector clocks, Read Repair, etc. -, overviewing its main features and architecture.

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Hadoop-as-a-Service from Amazon, Cloudera, Microsoft and IBM

Topics
Cloud Computing,
Big Data

Companies rely more and more on big data when making their decisions. Amazon, Cloudera, and IBM have announced their Hadoop-as-a-Service offerings, while Microsoft promises to do the same next year.

Amazon’s New Browser, Silk, Is Using a Split Architecture

Topics
Cloud Computing,
Architecture

Amazon has created Silk, a WebKit-based browser using SPDY to maintain a single connection with services hosted on AWS where web pages are preloaded and prepared for being pushed to the device. The effect: faster browsing, less device power consumption and better security.

Articles about Amazon

Architecting TekPub - Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails

Topics
Dynamic Languages,
NoSQL,
Ruby on Rails,
Unit Testing,
Ruby,
.NET,
Web Frameworks,
Architecture

TekPub is a web site devoted to developers, giving them a source of focused on-line training in various topics from Microsoft Entity Framework to writing your own blog engine using Ruby on Rails. They are an interesting case about company who started on ASP.NET MVC and quickly moved to Ruby on Rails. We had the opportunity to talk with them about their technology turnaround.

Virtual Panel on Cloud Computing

Topics
Cloud Computing,
Architecture

In this virtual panel, InfoQ wants to find out from leading cloud experts what are the benefits brought by cloud computing as well as the constraints in using them, what is better to use, a public or a private cloud, is the cloud interoperability needed, what is the difference between providing infrastructure or a platform, and how can a client enforce regulatory compliance.

Presentations about Amazon

Netflix in the Cloud

Topics
Operations,
Cloud Computing,
Performance & Scalability,
Architecture

Adrian Cockcroft discusses the advantages of running Netflix services in Amazon’s cloud, comparing the old data center solution against the new cloud architecture implemented to offer faster, more scalable, more available, and more productive services across the enterprise.

High Performance Websites in the Cloud

Topics
Operations,
Cloud Computing,
Performance & Scalability,
Architecture

Matt Wood presents the most important AWS services, explaining how to scale up and out, how to extend the stack by adding extra layers such as caching or map-reduce systems, how to use, scale, and create redundant storage, and how to manage and scale out MySQL databases running on EC2.

Interviews about Amazon

Adam Wiggins on Building Heroku on Top of Amazon EC2

Topics
Operations,
Cloud Computing,
Ruby,
Monitoring Tools,
Deployment / Datacenter,
IDE,
Architecture

Adam Wiggins explains the experience with building Heroku on top of Amazon EC2, the pros and cons of virtualization, and the importance of automation.

Jeff Barr Discusses Amazon Web Services

Topics
Cloud Computing,
Web Services,
SOA

In this interview from QCon London 2008, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Evangelist Jeff Barr discusses SimpleDB, S3, EC2, SQS, cloud computing, how the different Amazon services interact within an application, the origins of AWS, SimpleDB and Microsoft SQL Server Data Services, globalization of the AWS cloud, the March AWS outage, SimpleDB Stored Procedures and converting between AMIs and VMWare.