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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For September 7th, 2018

High Scalability

Retail: $20 trillion. sapessi : Lambda simplifies concurrency at the frontend, enforcing one event per function at a time. For comparison, Google's fibers use a new Linux system call that can switch between two tasks in about the same time, including the kernel time. They'll love you even more. Cars: $1 trillion.

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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

A comparison of respondent organization size and share of applications hosted in the cloud. We didn’t attempt to define serverless precisely, but for many people in our audience, serverless means “function-as-a-service” (for example, AWS Lambda). This number balloons to about 37% of companies with between one and 100 employees.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Developers can simply specify a few sample phrases and the information required to complete a user's task, and Lex builds the deep learning based intent model, guides the conversation, and executes the business logic using AWS Lambda. Developers can build, test, and deploy chatbots directly from the AWS Management Console.

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