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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 72 posts.
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Using Flat Files So Elections Don’t Break Your Server
Publishing live election results requires a carefully tuned system: the setup must be able to withstand some of the most intense traffic levels seen all year at NYTimes.com. We decided to center our elections app on the simplest of all caching strategies: the flat file.
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Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing VM Import for Amazon EC2
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Heroku Gets Sweet Logging
Access to application logs on Heroku has historically been one of the least usable functions of the platform. The “heroku logs” command was nothing more th
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FreeBSD/EC2 lives
There are some caveats to this. First, at the moment only FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT can run under EC2; I haven't merged bug fixes back to the stable branches. Second, at the moment FreeBSD only runs on t1.micro instances, for reasons I can't discuss (NDA) but hope will be resolved soon. Third, this code hasn't received very…
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Tracking Every Release
We spend a lot of time gathering metrics for our network, servers, and many things going on within the code that drives Etsy....
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Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing Amazon Route 53 - A New DNS Service from AWS
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Happy Holidays from the App Engine team - 1.4.0 SDK released
App Engine version 1.4.0. is here! It’s our most significant release of the year for the App Engine SDK, including a number of very big feat...
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Why we’re really happy with AppEngine (and not going anywhere else)
There’s been a handful of articles critical of Google’s AppEngine that have bubbled up to the top of Hacker News lately. I’d like to throw our story into the ring as well, but as a story of a happy customer rather than a switcher.
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Why we switched from Google App Engine to EC2
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The Incredible Power of the Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances
Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Based on the Cluster Compute instance type, the Cluster GPU instance adds two NVIDIA Telsa M2050 GPUs offering GPU-based computational power of over one TeraFLOPS per…
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