Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Dev News Digest for January 29, 2013


New services from Amazon EC2 Clould

  • High I/O instance with 2T SSD attached ($3.10)
  • Guaranteed (provisioned) IOPS (Input/Output Operations Per Second) for EBS (Elastic Block Storage) storage. Currently EBS speed can vary based on cloud load.
  • EBS Optimized instances with guaranteed network throughput for EBS
  • Flexible IP addresses for VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) instances
  • Separate security group for Elastic Load Balancer




4 Myths of Disaster Recovery

  • Myth – Disaster Recovery is Expensive and Resource Intensive. Reality - WIth new virtualization and automation technologies DR can be very affordable
  • Myth – After Planning, There is No Way to Accurately Run a Test. Reality - Virtualization allows recovery plans to be tested against significant failures multiple times to ensure the plan is consistently effective, without disrupting day-to-day activities. 
  • Myth – Creating and Managing a Disaster Recovery Solution Requires “Special” Skills. Reality - Since this is all taken care of via automated processes, no special skills are required.
  • Myth – Disaster Recovery Plans Are like an Insurance Policy that Never Gets Used. Reality - Disaster recovery services are critical for keeping businesses running after system failures.



Hilarious NoSQL parody

MySQL vs MongoDB parody


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