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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

Back when S3 launched on March 14, 2006 (also known as “Pi Day” to some), iPhones didn’t exist, neither did tweets or likes, Facebook was still only used by a few colleges and universities, and you couldn’t hail a ride or order lunch with an app. 15 years is a long time in the world of technology.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Retail is one of the most important business domains for data science and data mining applications because of its prolific data and numerous optimization problems such as optimal prices, discounts, recommendations, and stock levels that can be solved using data analysis methods. However, many of these models are highly parametric (i.e.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Many of those failure scenarios can be anticipated beforehand, but many more are unknown at design and build time. We knew that designing APIs was a very important task as we’d only have one chance to get it right. your resource usage.

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