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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. Adoption is now really starting to explode in 2015 as more and more businesses understand the power analytics has to empower their organizations. Cloud enables secure analytics.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster. He is a co-organizer of the London Web Performance meetup.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

In November 2015, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region in the United Kingdom. Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

Twined with the radical reduction of information asymmetry (particularly with regard to product price data), it stands to reason that there has been significant productivity growth in western economies: supply chains have never been so optimized, retail and wholesale transactions so price-fair and friction-free.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

The Tick-Tock release cycle basically fell apart by about 2015 , as Intel was unable to move from a 14nm manufacturing process to a 10nm manufacturing process. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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