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Expanding the Cloud ? introducing the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region.

All Things Distributed

These companies can now benefit from the fact that the new Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region is similar to all other AWS Regions, which enables software developed for other Regions to be quickly deployed in Australia as well. Many young businesses as well as established enterprises are already using AWS, many of them targeting customers globally.

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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

The rise of Big Data - the ability to store and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured, internal and external data - promises to let companies react more nimbly than ever before. He or she is responsible for a portfolio of technology investments made through software and digital media.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

Today, I am excited to share with you a brand new service called Amazon QuickSight that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources in a fast and affordable manner. Big data challenges. We believe this is one of the critical parts of our big data offerings.

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NoSQL Data Modeling Techniques

Highly Scalable

No one can expect human users to explicitly control concurrency, integrity, consistency, or data type validity. On the other hand, it turned out that software applications are not so often interested in in-database aggregation and able to control, at least in many cases, integrity and validity themselves.

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MapReduce Patterns, Algorithms, and Use Cases

Highly Scalable

There is a software simulator of a digital communication system like WiMAX that passes some volume of random data through the system model and computes error probability of throughput. Each Mapper runs simulation for specified amount of data which is 1/Nth of the required sampling and emit error rate.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

From an econometric perspective, the problem of recommendations is closely related to the rapid expansion of assortment in many retail sectors expedited by ecommerce and omni-channel commerce. PR13] Data Science for Business: What you need to know about data mining and data-analytic thinking, F. Provost, T. Fawcett, 2013.

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