The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

In the years leading up to 2000, there was aggressive spend on technology: insulation against fears of the Y2K bug (legacy software and hardware with time functions that wouldn't properly roll over to 01/01/2000) as well as development of new business and consumer technology to exploit what was then nascent internet technology.

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Alibaba is one of the e-commerce giants that have “run the gamut” from a regular online retail store to a native application (created for mobile shopping purposes) and then on to a PWA. Hence, this feature is also not a perk of only traditional apps.

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Retail: $20 trillion. ben11kehoe : So instead of a processor [for @iRobot] that is maxed out by the features it supports at launch (which is the route to the lowest build cost), we've got headroom to keep pace even with software features we're planning for the generation of robots after this. They'll love you even more.

Internet 137

Internet Internet Scalability Lambda 137

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The cloud-hosted version would need to be: Scalable – The service would need to support hundreds of thousands, or even millions of AWS customers, each supporting their own internet-scale applications. Today, DynamoDB powers the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications that would overburden traditional relational databases.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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.

AWS 166

AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

The VM is reachable from the Internet? As a simple example, an SLO around network throughput might rely on the customer running software capable of driving the network fast enough. It also treats all outages as equal, whereas an outage on Black Friday for a retailer is much worse than an outage on a quiet day of the year.

Metrics 79

Metrics Cloud Google Network 79

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Today, I want to focus on helping app developers who have chosen to develop their apps on AWS and have in the past developed some of the seminal apps of our times on AWS, such as Netflix, AirBnB, or Pinterest or created internet connected devices powered by AWS such as Alexa and Dropcam.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165