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In last few weeks there was a lot of NoSQL hype, with more and more information about companies which migrate from rational databases such MySQL to NoSQL solution. There are a lot of pretty awesome NoSQL solution on the market, but from my point of view the most promising is Cassandra. Originally Cassandra was developed […]

Amazon CloudFront is Content Delivery Network (CDN) and more as it is integrated and optimized to work with other AWS services. By using edge locations of Amazon’s DCs we can cache our content and deliver it with low latency. It doesn’t meter if the content is static (S3 object) or dynamic (EC2 service). We can […]

There was a time when I did some JVM tuning. It’s time to reactivate the part of the brain responsible for this activity. The key principle is to prepare a baseline. What is it? The baseline refers to: the first measuring mechanisms (np. gc.log) – we should measure on different levels (cpu, I/O, database etc) […]