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London Calling! An AWS Region is coming to the UK!

All Things Distributed

The AWS UK region will be our third in the European Union (EU), and we're shooting to have it ready by the end of 2016 (or early 2017). Mid-sized Organisations – Haven Power , Holiday Extras , ">Exeter Family Friendly , ">Royal Opera House , ">Total Jobs , Retail Companies – Shop Direct , Nisa Retail , Kurt Geiger , Sport Pursuit.

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Cloud Native Cost Optimization

Adrian Cockcroft

link] One of the customers I’ve worked with more recently is Expedia, and here’s a more practical and up to date set of examples from 2017. Photo of Corey Quinn taken at Kubecon by Adrian One of the impacts of COVID-19 has been a large rapid unplanned change in business activity for most of the global economy.

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Cloud Native Cost Optimization

Adrian Cockcroft

link] One of the customers I’ve worked with more recently is Expedia, and here’s a more practical and up to date set of examples from 2017. Photo of Corey Quinn taken at Kubecon by Adrian One of the impacts of COVID-19 has been a large rapid unplanned change in business activity for most of the global economy.

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Monitoring: Why focus on the end user experience?

Rigor

I recently was asked the following question by an online retailer: “Why should I invest in monitoring the user experience when I already have monitoring for our database, infrastructure, app server, and network?”. Or are you an eCommerce retailer?” 38% of all sites measured in Sept 2017 (~500K) are more than 75% 3rd party content.

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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

In the summer of 2017, we partnered with research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct a study on the importance of real-time experiences for today’s consumers. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences. Those findings are detailed in our report, The Psychology of Waiting: The Business Impact of Diminishing Consumer Patience.

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Database Resolutions for 2018

VoltDB

In the summer of 2017, we partnered with research firm Vanson Bourne to conduct a study on the importance of real-time experiences for today’s consumers. Create Better, Real-Time Customer Experiences. Those findings are detailed in our report, The Psychology of Waiting: The Business Impact of Diminishing Consumer Patience.

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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. You can follow Max on Twitter @ firt.