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Platform Engineering Teams Done Right…

Adrian Cockcroft

We used this model effectively at Netflix when I was their cloud architect from 2010 through 2013. The layers of platforms start at the bottom with hardware choices such as which CPU architectures and vendors you want to use. There are three current underlying reasons for the platform engineering meme today.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. When Tom Tom launched the LBS platform they wanted the ability to reach millions of developers all around the world without having them invest a lot of capital upfront in hardware and building expensive data centers so turned to the cloud.

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Structural Evolutions in Data

O'Reilly

Doubly so as hardware improved, eating away at the lower end of Hadoop-worthy work. ” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware. Those algorithms packaged with scikit-learn?

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

Vivino was founded in 2010 and now has more than 20 million users worldwide and offices in four countries across three continents. Vivino also uses Auto Scaling to deal with the large seasonal fluctuations in traffic. Telenor Connexion. Telenor Connexion is all-in on AWS. They are primarily using the services for two main platforms.

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The Performance Inequality Gap, 2021

Alex Russell

Hardware Past As Performance Prologue. Regardless, the overall story for hardware progress remains grim, particularly when we recall how long device replacement cycles are: Tap for a larger version. But the hardware future is not evenly distributed, and web workloads aren't heavily parallel. Mind The Gap.