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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

For re:Invent 2021 my team (but mostly Elise Greve) persuaded the re:Invent organizers to include Sustainability as a track code, and that was repeated for 2022 and now for 2023. There hasn’t been any other visible progress, and most of the people I used to work with on sustainability have now left Amazon.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 3rd, 2018

High Scalability

trillion : projected 2040 space economy revenue; Quotable Quote: @BrianRoemmele : This shift away from affiliate compensation for IOS app sales will have a rather large impact on niche apps. Department of Homeland Security has designated 16 sectors of infrastructure as 'critical', and 14 of them depend on GPS. ” Tullis : The U.

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I Ran This Whole Conference and I Didn’t Even Get a T-shirt

J. Paul Reed

Infrastructure Matters ?—?Getting That said, I was actually pretty surprised how far we were able to get without setting up or implementing any particularly special infrastructure: we made judicious use of Google Docs (especially Google Forms), and, for the most part, it turned out just fine. (I’d like to thank my Mary again for that.)