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Category Archives: Amazon
The rise of custom chips
The Verge published an interesting piece this week on why Apple (at least as the rumor goes) will replace the use of Intel processors with its homegrown ARM-based processors. The author asserts that it is because Intel is standing still. … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Azure, Computer and Internet
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Challenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 2)
In part one of this series I used recent increases in maximum database size as a driver for introducing the challenges of hyperscale computing. In this part we dive into the heart of the matter, which is what it takes … Continue reading
Amazon moving off Oracle? #DBfreedom
A bunch of news stories, apparently coming off an article in The Information, are talking about Amazon and Salesforce attempting to move away from the use of Oracle. I’m not going to comment specifically on Amazon, or Salesforce, and any … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Aurora, Computer and Internet, Database, Microsoft, SQL Server
Tagged Database Migration, DBfreedom, Oracle
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Service Level Agreements (SLA)
I wanted to make some comments on Service Level Agreements (SLAs), so we interrupt our scheduled Part 2 on 16GB Cloud Databases. A Service Level Agreement establishes both an expectation between a service provider and a customer of the level … Continue reading
Posted in AWS, Azure, Cloud, Computer and Internet, Google
Tagged Oracle Cloud
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16TB Cloud Databases (Part 1)
I could claim the purpose of this blog post is to talk about Amazon RDS increasing the storage per database to 16TB, and to some extent it is. It’s also an opportunity to talk about the challenges of a hyperscale … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, AWS, Cloud, Computer and Internet, Database, Microsoft, SQL Server
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Amazon Seattle Hiring Slowing?
An article in today’s Seattle Times discusses how Amazon’s open positions in Seattle is down by half from last summer and at a recent low. I don’t know what is going on, but I will speculate on what could be … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Computer and Internet
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Sonos One
I’ve been a Sonos fan for years, and recently talked about my first experience using Alexa to control older Sonos equipment. I have one room, my exercise room, that isn’t covered by the Niles multi-zone system. I was using an … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Computer and Internet, Home Entertainment
Tagged Alexa, Sonos, Sonos One
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Product Launches and Vendor Conferences
My favorite tech conference, AWS’ re:Invent is coming up next week. I attended the last three as an Amazon VP, and was hoping to attend this year as a customer, but unfortunately can’t make it. I’ll be streaming the keynotes, … Continue reading
Does per-incident support make sense in the cloud?
Although I haven’t looked at this deeply I know that AWS, and it appears Azure as well, only offer subscription-based support models. On-premises Microsoft offers both subscription-based models and per-incident support. So does per-incident support make sense in the cloud? … Continue reading
Posted in Amazon, Cloud, Computer and Internet, Microsoft
Tagged AWS Support, Azure Support
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Amazon Key: Bad idea or evolutionary pressure tactic?
Like most people, or at least much of the Twitterverse, I am a bit freaked out by the idea of having a stranger open my front door to put a package inside. If you want to get freaked out a … Continue reading
Hal's (Im)Perfect Vision 