Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Cluster management, a common software infrastructure among technology companies, aggregates compute resources from a collection of physical hosts into a shared resource pool, amplifying compute power and allowing for the flexible use of data center hardware.

Hardware 103

Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Technology 103

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data. However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g.,

Cloud 137

Cloud Big Data AWS Analytics 137

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Each time, the underlying implementation changed a bit while still staying true to the larger phenomenon of “Analyzing Data for Fun and Profit.” ” They weren’t quite sure what this “data” substance was, but they’d convinced themselves that they had tons of it that they could monetize.

Hardware 97

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 97

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. After migrating, database queries that took six seconds now take three seconds in their AWS infrastructure.

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AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. Put simply, data is not always readily available and accessible to organizational end users. Enter Amazon QuickSight.

Analytics 152

Analytics Availability Media Social Media 152

Uber Engineering

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Cluster management, a common software infrastructure among technology companies, aggregates compute resources from a collection of physical hosts into a shared resource pool, amplifying compute power and allowing for the flexible use of data center hardware.

Hardware 62

Hardware Infrastructure Engineering Technology 62

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In April 2017, Amazon Web Services announced that it would launch a new AWS infrastructure region Region in Sweden. Today, we add to that presence with an infrastructure Region in Stockholm with three Availability Zones. They rely on the AWS Cloud for their entire infrastructure and use almost every AWS service available.

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AWS Cloud Games Serverless 124

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals. Shell''s scientists, especially the geophysicists and drilling engineers, frequently use cloud computing to run models. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell.

Cloud 129

Cloud Energy AWS Healthcare 129

All Things Distributed

JULY 13, 2010

Customers with complex computational workloads such as tightly coupled, parallel processes, or with applications that are very sensitive to network performance, can now achieve the same high compute and networking performance provided by custom-built infrastructure while benefiting from the elasticity, flexibility and cost advantages of Amazon EC2.

Cloud 118

Cloud AWS Automotive Latency 118

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

This lead to the birth of the Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) which was focused on providing a very fine grained parallel model, with processing organized in multiple stages, where the data would flow through. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics. Introducing the AWS South America (Sao Paulo) Region.

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AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136