By Cory Bennett and Ariel TseitlinWe have found that the best defense against major unexpected failures is to fail often. By frequently causing failures, we force our services to be built in a way that is more resilient. We are excited to make a long-awaited announcement today that will help others who embrace this approach.We have written...
الاثنين، 30 يوليو 2012
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Benchmarking High Performance I/O with SSD for Cassandra on AWS

by Adrian CockcroftToday AWS has launched a new Solid State Disk (SSD) based instance that addresses the need for high performance I/O, and we have run a few initial benchmarks to see how it shapes up. With this announcement AWS makes it easy to provision extremely high I/O...