UPDATE: read our followup post Take #2 – Is Amazon SSD PIOPS Really Better? Two months ago, Amazon launched its EBS Provisioned IOPS (PIOPS) for running high performance databases in th...
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SEP.27.2012
It’s True: Even Modest Datasets Can Enjoy the Speediest Performance
Those of us who use them know that Redis and Memcached were designed from the ground-up to achieve the highest throughput and the lowest latency for applications, and they are in fact th...
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JUL.2.2012
AWS Outages and In-Memory Datastores
For the second time during June 2012, the AWS us-east-1 region failed, this time due to a power outage caused by extreme weather conditions, according to Amazon. For those of you who use...
