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

High Scalability

Retail: $20 trillion. 5% might not sound like much, but it’s a huge figure when you consider that many VM optimisations aim to speed things up by 1% at most. They'll love you even more. Pflop/s : fully synchronous tensorflow data-parallel training; 3.3 Cars: $1 trillion. It was a quiet week this week. Just a few more quotes.

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LATAM COVID-19 readiness

Dynatrace

With this real-time information, they can speed up product inventory replenishment schedules, move merchandise to where it is most needed and ensure the most purchased items were in stock and readily available. SERVICE PROVIDER. This is an example of where a low response time is not necessarily a good indicator, this had to be checked.

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A Decade of Dynamo: Powering the next wave of high-performance, internet-scale applications

All Things Distributed

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.

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What is Greenplum Database? Intro to the Big Data Database

Scalegrid

The advanced analytics provided by Greenplum is being used across many verticals, including finance, manufacturing, automotive, government, energy, education, retail, and so on, to address a wide variety of problems. Let’s walk through the top use cases for Greenplum: Analytics. How to Get Started.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The internet protocols helped keep the internet open instead of closed. Advertisements have been an integral part of retail for many decades and anytime we include them they are clearly marked as ‘Sponsored’. Open source software enabled it to escape from under the thumb of the PC era’s dominant monopoly.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

AWS is enabling innovations in areas such as healthcare, automotive, life sciences, retail, media, energy, robotics that it is mind boggling and humbling. For example many of the Internet of Things innovations that we have seen come to life in the past years on AWS all have a significant analytics components to it.

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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark. I think that was the point I became hooked!

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