Scalegrid
MAY 13, 2020
Greenplum Database is an open-source , hardware-agnostic MPP database for analytics, based on PostgreSQL and developed by Pivotal who was later acquired by VMware. Greenplum’s high performance eliminates the challenge most RDBMS have scaling to petabtye levels of data, as they are able to scale linearly to efficiently process data.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 11, 2016
This is a given, whether you are using the highest quality hardware or lowest cost components. When customers left the constraining, old world of IT hardware and datacenters behind, they started to develop systems with new and interesting usage patterns that no one had ever seen before. Primitives not frameworks. APIs are forever.
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All Things Distributed
MARCH 11, 2015
AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. In the past analytics within an organization was the pinnacle of old style IT: a centralized data warehouse running on specialized hardware. Cloud enables self-service analytics.
All Things Distributed
MARCH 13, 2017
Digitalization offers almost endless possibilities to communicate faster, work more efficiently, and be more creative – in real-time. Previously, the top priorities for IT departments were equipping data centers with hardware, purchasing software, and further developing proprietary software.
O'Reilly
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Andrew Ng , Christopher Ré , and others have pointed out that in the past decade, we’ve made a lot of progress with algorithms and hardware for running AI. Our current set of AI algorithms are good enough, as is our hardware; the hard problems are all about data. The data available to our retail business is much more limited.
Highly Scalable
APRIL 2, 2012
Some time ago I participated in design of a backend for one large online retailer company. Categories can contain thousands of products and user cannot efficiently search though this array without powerful tools. In particular, we built this system on top of Oracle Coherence and designed our own data structures and indexes.
The Agile Manager
SEPTEMBER 30, 2014
In the 1970s, the predominant business strategy was vertical integration: own the value chain from raw materials to retail outlets. When companies first invested in computer technology by buying mainframes and hiring programmers, they did so to create efficiencies in their administrative operations.
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