All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. I have seen our customers do so many radical new things with the analytics tools that our partners and us make available that I have made a few observations I would like to share with you.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

Apica

OCTOBER 17, 2022

The cost of storage alone used to be prohibitive to this practice, but now that we have better bandwidth and capacity, many companies started capturing and warehousing the increasing data emanating from observability agents and streaming sources, and then sorting and analyzing it later. Metrics and observability data hoarding.

Retail 52

Retail Website Infrastructure Software Architecture 52

O'Reilly

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Visionaries are hoping to leverage blockchains to provide a secure, universal data sharing infrastructure that can help solve decades-long problems endemic to the health care system. Gem and Tierion are startups working different aspects of data storage, verification and sharing (both partnered with Philips Healthcare), while Hu-manity.co

Blockchain 63

Blockchain Retail Innovation Healthcare 63

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

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. Typically, these would be pages that might no longer be available on the site but are available in third-party archives.

Website 89

Website Analytics Cache Google 89

Scalegrid

MAY 13, 2020

High performance, query optimization, open source and polymorphic data storage are the major Greenplum advantages. The MPP system leverages a shared-nothing architecture to handle multiple operations in parallel. Typically an MPP system has one leader node and one or many compute nodes. Polymorphic Data Storage.

Big Data 321

Big Data Database Artificial Intelligence Open Source 321

The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

A megabyte of cloud-based disk storage is no different from a kilowatt of electricity. Fashion magazines are launching electronic retail sites. Although at some point each makes use of utility services such as cloud computing and ERP systems, these are strategic competitive investments into the business. Nor is cloud computing.

Ecommerce 45

Ecommerce Social Media Retail Airlines 45

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Today, we are releasing a plugin that allows customers to use the Titan graph engine with Amazon DynamoDB as the backend storage layer. It opens up the possibility to enjoy the value that graph databases bring to relationship-centric use cases, without worrying about managing the underlying storage. The importance of relationships.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

Build evolvable systems. 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. We needed to build systems that embrace failure as a natural occurrence even if we did not know what the failure might be.

AWS 144

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 144

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. Fraud.net is a good example of this. With the launch of the AWS Europe (London) Region, I look forward to seeing many more innovative use cases enabled by AWS.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

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. We had an advanced team of database administrators and access to top experts within Oracle.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. Being the largest online retailer on the planet, it’s safe to say that if you want to buy something, you can probably get it on Amazon. Format the data.

Website 115

Website Code Retail Best Practices 115

Highly Scalable

APRIL 2, 2012

Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes. Business Logic: Hierarchical and Faceted Navigation.

Ecommerce 100

Ecommerce Cache Storage Architecture 100

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

Technical leads and architects (about 11%) are next, followed by software and systems architects (9+%). 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). It’s all cloud-like, irrespective of context.”.

Cloud 141

Cloud Serverless AWS Architecture 141