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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. Once inside the function, there's nothing wrong with multi-threading to do the work as efficiently as possible. Matthew Dillon : This is *very* impressive efficiency. They'll love you even more.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

UK companies are using AWS to innovate across diverse industries, such as energy, manufacturing, medicaments, retail, media, and financial services and the UK is home to some of the world's most forward-thinking businesses. All around us we see that the AWS capabilities foster a culture of experimentation with businesses of all sizes.

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Cloud Adoption in 2020

O'Reilly

Oddly, about 3% of non-adopters cited cost as a primary reason not to move workloads to cloud; cost-efficiency is usually touted as one of cloud’s most attractive features. 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).

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