All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. Comments (). Recent Entries.

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O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

OpenAI’s text generating system GPT-3 has captured mainstream attention. GPT-3 is essentially an auto-complete bot whose underlying Machine Learning (ML) model has been trained on vast quantities of text available on the Internet. Targeted Manipulation at Scale. Prompt Engineering. Figure 6: GPT-3 can generate commands and code.

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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.

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High Scalability

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Retail: $20 trillion. This makes it easy to reason about complex distributed system. Since switching between goroutines doesn't require an actual kernel context switch (or even a system call), this isn't too surprising. They'll love you even more. Pflop/s : fully synchronous tensorflow data-parallel training; 3.3

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The Morning Paper

JUNE 18, 2019

The VM is reachable from the Internet? Or a system availability SLO, for availability seen by the end user, may well depend on the user carefully exploiting the available redundancy. 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.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). Author of the Pocket Guide to Web Performance and co-author of Using WebPageTest , Andy is an independent web performance consultant in the UK who has helped many leading retailers, newspapers and financial companies make their sites faster.

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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.

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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.

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