All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Some of the Middle East's most established enterprises, such as Actel, Al Tayer Group, Batelco, flydubai, Hassan Allam, Middle East Broadcasting Center, Silah Gulf, Souq.com, Union Insurance, United Arab Shipping Company, and many others, are using AWS to drive cost savings, accelerate innovation, and speed time-to-market.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 November 2012 05:00 AM. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. Comments (). Today, Amazon Web Services has greater worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sydney, Australia.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

By offloading the task of managing infrastructure to AWS Essent is able to spend more time on innovating on behalf of their customers to help them in their energy usage. Tom Tom – Founded in 1991, TomTom is a leading provider of navigation and location-based products and services.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 8, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 22 February 2012 12:01 AM. Some of our early customers used Amazon SWF to implement their domain specific languages (DL) for specialized business process execution, This is an area where I think the availability of Amazon SWF will drive a lot of innovation. All Things Distributed. Expanding the Cloud â??

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All Things Distributed

AUGUST 16, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 16 August 2012 10:00 AM. When you lower the cost of failing with new web application projects, you have an opportunity to change the dynamics of decision-making in your company towards encouraging more innovation. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.

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SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

This situation was so bad that Microsoft offered a 25% discount on the cost of SQL Server processor core licenses for SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014, if you ran on qualifying AMD Opteron processors with six or more cores. Intel became complacent over the past ten years, and ended up opening up a large opportunity for AMD.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

Software also makes its own opportunities, because it is inherently a business of invention and innovation. The horrific explosion of the oil tank train that devastated Lac-Mégantic in 2012 was in no small part the result of demand exceeding supply. New labor formation will be largely industrial in nature, not tradecraft.

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O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J. They can do this through technical innovation properly applied to real-world business problems. Patil called " Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century."

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

She doesn’t avoid discussing the difficulties faced in Africa, but she always follows that discussion with some examples of people innovating in incredibly creative ways to overcome these challenges. Very well worth the read if for no other reason than to make us reconsider what passes as “innovation” in the west. What I Read in 2012.

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Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 4 ⁄ 5 How We Got to Now builds off the ideas from Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From and further hammers home the point that good ideas do not come from lightbulb moments but from what Johnson calls the Hummingbird Effect. What I Read in 2012.

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Gallien, 2012. Duhigg, 2012. Zhang, 2012. Nakanishi, 2010.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 28 November 2012 09:00 AM. Amazon Redshift uses a variety of innovations to enable customers to rapidly analyze datasets ranging in size from several hundred gigabytes to a petabyte and more. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud â?? Comments ().

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. In 2012, Dave Cole published a post on How we build CMS free websites. By the end of 2008, Tom Preston-Werner announces Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. Blog aware. Create posts with Markdown files.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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All Things Distributed

JUNE 21, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 21 June 2012 09:00 AM. ve already passed our 2012 targets. The quick development time, easy scalability, and low administration overhead have allowed for quick iterations and faster innovation. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 12 September 2012 01:00 AM. The AWS team continuously works to innovate to help our customers drive their cost down and the Reserved Instance Marketplace is yet another great invention that will gives customers greater flexibility in their pricing. Comments (). purchaseâ??

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. What I Read in 2012. Connections by James Burke 4 ⁄ 5 Burke’s Connections TV series is magnificent stuff. The book sets out to do the same thing and does a pretty good job. Past years.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. s become obvious to me is that there are innovative, inspiring developers in every corner of the planet from Australia to Iceland and from Israel to Peru. Distributed problems call for innovative solutions. All Things Distributed. Do You Want to Help Build the Next AWS Service?

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. NoSQL and Scale. The original Dynamo paper inspired many database solutions, which are now popularly referred to as NoSQL databases.

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All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2012 07:00 AM. I am excited to see the years of experience with systems such as Amazon Dynamo result in an innovative database service that can be broadly used by all our customers. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Amazon DynamoDB â?? Comments (). Contact Info.

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All Things Distributed

APRIL 18, 2012

By Werner Vogels on 19 April 2012 02:00 AM. Who are the companies that have a native cloud product, who are the ones that have innovative new licensing models, who are the young and hungry companies that break with the old style of enterprise software vending and are truly customer-centric. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

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All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes. As a result of affordable cloud resources we are already seeing centres of innovation and excellence, emerging in London, Berlin, Barcelona and Stockholm that are beginning to rival Silicon Valley.

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