O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling.

Analytics 135

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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.

Blockchain 52

Blockchain Social Media Innovation Internet 52

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2019

By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting. They were in a state of mutually assured destruction.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. AAA gaming, CAD). At a technical level, this is not correct.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

O'Reilly

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The problem with engagement is that gaming the system is simple: inject some articles or videos with clickbait titles, create some bots to read or watch the content and make it trend, and sit back as the social networks drive the feedback loop via suggested content.

Social Media 53

Social Media Media Network Energy 53

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS Europe (London) Region, our 16th technology infrastructure region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The British Government is also helping to drive innovation and has embraced a cloud-first policy for technology adoption.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We would still be building higher and higher on top of VMs because that's where platform innovation would have stopped evolving. We have a cloud model that offers a cloud-native method of software development, but it may take several more technological evolutions for the model to advance enough to have a minimal viable portability layer.

Cloud 187

Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. More after jump!

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

All Things Distributed

APRIL 9, 2015

At Amazon we have hundreds of teams using machine learning and by making use of the Machine Learning Service we can significantly speed up the time they use to bring their technologies into production. One of the most exciting technologies we have built lately at AWS is Amazon Lambda. Amazon Lambda.

Lambda 122

Lambda Cloud IoT AWS 122

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 18, 2012

a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB , a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. This was not our technology vendorsâ?? Comments (). And it is fast â??

Scalability 167

Scalability Database Ecommerce Latency 167

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services. You could build a new gaming application that can support 15,000 monthly active users. NoSQL and Scale.

Availability 145

Availability Performance Scalability AWS 145