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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018.

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How social forces could drive blockchain demand

O'Reilly

Technology does not make a market. It’s only when millions of people make individual decisions to use a new product or service that a technology takes hold. He designed this new platform to be permission-less and free, an open space for creativity, innovation, and free expression that transcended geographic and cultural boundaries.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

When it comes to web content, you can easily find what you need through many different paths, from search engines and social media to playlists and blogs, jumping from one source to another with just a tap of a finger. This book is about performance problems and the various technologies created to fight them. Time is Money.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

Take the example of industrial manufacturing: in prototyping, drafts for technologically complex products are no longer physically produced; rather, their characteristics can be tested in a purely virtual fashion at every location across the globe by using simulations. Customers provide feedback online immediately after their purchase.

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Utilities, Strategic Investments, and the CIO

The Agile Manager

Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation. Nor should they on a technology utility. Their success is measured in revenue and yield.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

However, the data infrastructure to collect, store and process data is geared toward developers (e.g., In AWS’ quest to enable the best data storage options for engineers, we have built several innovative database solutions like Amazon RDS, Amazon RDS for Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Redshift. Big data challenges.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

They require teams of data engineers to spend months building complex data models and synthesizing the data before they can generate their first report. The cost and complexity to implement, scale, and use BI makes it difficult for most companies to make data analysis ubiquitous across their organizations.

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