• Auto Scaling Update - Lifecycle Management, Standby State, and DetachInstances

  Auto Scaling is a key AWS service. You can use it to build resilient, highly scalable applications that react to changes in load by launching or terminating Amazon EC2 instances as needed, all driven by system or user-defined metrics collected and tracked by Amazon CloudWatch . Today we are…

• Data Center Battery Monitoring Firm Canara Raises $4.25M

  New execs find equity funding to support their plan for the next stage of growth. Read More

• Amazon ElastiCache Flexible Node Placement

  Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to deploy an in-memory cache in the cloud using the Memacached or Redis engines. Today we are launching a new flexible node placement model for ElastiCache. Your Cache Clusters can now span multiple Availability Zones within a Region. This will help…

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• SSD Enhancements: Protecting Data Integrity and Improving Responsiveness

  In part two of SSD Enhancements by Doug Rollins, we examine two additional enterprise SSD features - one aimed at ensuring data integrity in the event of a sudden power loss; the other aimed at increasing responsiveness through better background operations management. Read More

• Preventing the Dogpile Effect - Problem and Solution

  This is a guest repost Przemek Sobstel , who believes that dogpile effect issue is not covered enough, especially in the PHP world. Orignal article:  Preventing dogpile effect . The Dogpile effect occurs when cache expires and websites are hit by numerous requests the same time. From my own…

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• GitHub Pages now runs Jekyll 2.2.0

  We've upgraded GitHub Pages to support the latest version of Jekyll , the open source static site generator. Whether you're a new user or a savvy veteran, here are a few features that might help make publishing your next site a bit easier: Native Sass & CoffeeScript support - Simply…

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