• Paper: Tempest: Scalable Time-Critical Web Services Platform

  An interesting and different implementation approach:  Tempest: Scalable Time-Critical Web Services Platform :  Tempest is a new framework for developing time-critical web services. Tempest enables developers to build scalable, fault-tolerant services that can then be automatically replicated…

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• Data Quality: How Yelp stacks up to the competition

  Here at Yelp we take pride in providing accurate business listings. This is a harder problem than you might think. There are about 50 million businesses listed on Yelp, businesses come and go at an astonishing rate, and reasonable people can—and frequently do—disagree about whether a piece of…

• Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server - Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

  Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server now supports the use of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Once enabled, the database instance encrypts data before it is stored in the database and decrypts it after it is retrieved. You can use this...