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‘Easy Amazon EC2 Instance Comparison’. a nice UI on the various EC2 instance types on offer with their key attributes. Misses out availability of EBS-optimized instances though
(tags: amazon ec2 aws comparison pricing)
HyperLevelDB: A High-Performance LevelDB Fork
‘HyperLevelDB improves on LevelDB in two key ways: Improved parallelism: HyperLevelDB uses more fine-grained locking internally to provide higher throughput for multiple writer threads. Improved compaction: HyperLevelDB uses a different method of compaction that achieves higher throughput for write-heavy workloads, even as the database grows.’
(tags: leveldb storage key-value-stores persistence unix libraries open-source)
EU Council deals killer blow to privacy reforms
‘In an extraordinary result for corporate lobbying, direct marketing would by default be considered a legitimate data process and would therefore – by default – be lawful.’
(tags: eu politics data-protection privacy anti-spam spam eu-council direct-marketing)