All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We were pushing the limits of what was a leading commercial database at the time and were unable to sustain the availability, scalability and performance needs that our growing Amazon business demanded. In support of Amazon Prime Day 2017, the biggest day in Amazon retail history, DynamoDB served over 12.9 million requests per second.

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All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

But we couldn’t adopt the old style approach of upgrading systems through a maintenance outage, as many businesses around the world are relying on our platform for 24/7 availability. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business.

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All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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. Take GoSquared , a UK startup that runs all its development and production processes on AWS, as an example. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. On the contrary, a native application of an e-commerce store can come at 30, 50, or even 100 MB and up, consuming internal device storage. But this “look” is now available in browsers. Image credit: Apivita. Large preview ). Large preview ).

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Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Gem and Tierion are startups working different aspects of data storage, verification and sharing (both partnered with Philips Healthcare), while Hu-manity.co It’s still a long way until a blockchain-driven registry is widely available in Sweden, but estimates put taxpayers’ potential savings at over $100 million a year. In the U.S.,

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Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

As a consequence, devtest teams often turned away from testing user journeys, and focused their attention elsewhere, creating several new side effects in the process. Hygiene before health. Metrics and observability data hoarding. The quality of their experience with the app is all about checking that the dinner will arrive when promised.

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Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, someone might web scrape all the product pages of a competitor’s retail site to harvest information about products being offered and current pricing to try to gain a competitive edge. They all generally are instrumented as JavaScript processes that are loaded onto your site’s web pages through a tag or snippet of loader code.

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Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. Besides this, each product has some transient information like in-stock availability that is a subject of frequent updates (every 5 minutes or so). The second important piece of functionality is a faceted navigation.

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Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, in essence, it’s a way to automate the tedious process of hitting ‘copy’ and then ‘paste’ 200 times. But first of all, I’d like to make something clear right now — while the act of scraping publicly available data is legal, Amazon has some measures to prevent it on their pages. You’re about to find out! Large preview ).

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

They also offer a powerful computing platform for analyzing live data as it changes and generating immediate feedback or “operational intelligence;” for example, see this blog post describing the use of real-time analytics in a retail application. This process works well on premise because IP addresses typically are well known and static.

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ScaleOut Software

AUGUST 19, 2014

They also offer a powerful computing platform for analyzing live data as it changes and generating immediate feedback or “operational intelligence;” for example, see this blog post describing the use of real-time analytics in a retail application. This process works well on premise because IP addresses typically are well known and static.

Cloud 40

Cloud Azure Virtualization Scalability 40

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Interestingly, multi-cloud, or the use of multiple cloud computing and storage services in a single homogeneous network architecture, had the fewest users (24% of the respondents). Obviously, no combination of issues or trends can exceed more than 100% of available bandwidth. The answer to the latter question has to be “yes.”.

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