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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. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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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. Our world is now 30 years into its internet-driven, digital-centric life. Power has become concentrated in the hands of a few internet giants, who now wield undue influence.

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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

Developments like cloud computing, the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are proving that IT has (again) become a strategic business driver. Marketers use big data and artificial intelligence to find out more about the future needs of their customers. Technologies change faster than people.

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No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

A good example is the comments section on this blog; a few lines of JavaScript and these pages have a dynamic nature with comments, trackbacks and social media discussion showing up as they happen. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics.

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