All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

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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Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 135

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

JUNE 29, 2011

For Amazon retail, some of those dimensions are low pricing, large catalog, fast shipping, and convenience. For example, when our retail customers contributed to create larger economies of scale for Amazon.com, we used the savings to lower pricing such that our customers could also benefit. Recent Entries. Amazon DynamoDB â??

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AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 104

O'Reilly

MAY 25, 2021

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. Second, the free form text formats and protocols that we’re accustomed to may be too informal and error prone for capturing and reporting facts at Internet scale.

Social Media 138

Social Media Media Internet Internet 138

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

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

David Rosenthal : The margins on AWS, averaging 24.75% over the last twelve quarters, are what enables Amazon to run the US retail business averaging under 3% margin and the international business averaging -3.7% It’s not technological excellence. margin over the same period. It’s a dirty word. It’s prosaic.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

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.

FinTech 40

FinTech Strategy Retail Innovation 40

Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Application leaders for digital commerce technologies must plan for PWAs when designing digital commerce experiences”. Numerous big players have considered such an opinion and have recently implemented this technology. Some of the names include Amazon’s Luna, TikTok, Tinder, among many online retailers. Large preview ).

Code 74

Code Cache Retail Mobile 74

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. That’s why we had to mention Mina , senior front-end engineer at Slack, Sasstronaut , and a truly rare gem in technology. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The Dynamo paper was well-received and served as a catalyst to create the category of distributed database technologies commonly known today as "NoSQL." " Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. million requests per second.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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.

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AWS Cloud Artificial Intelligence IoT 166

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

Serverless frameworks like Nuclio let you utilize cloud technology to reduce your workload, improve scaling and save money on unused resources. Blockchain Technology Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin rely on blockchains, but web developers are just realizing the full potential of this technology.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2014

By comparison, well established businesses in industries like air travel or retail banking are expected to be predictable. Retail firms are not seeing their businesses grow rapidly because of technology, they're seeing their businesses change underneath them because of it.

Social Media 40

Social Media Retail Ecommerce Media 40

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We also have a great deal of machine learning technology that can benefit machine scientists and developers working outside Amazon. They also started asking us to give them access to the technology that powers Alexa, so that they can add a conversational interface (using voice or text) to their mobile apps. Amazon Lex. Amazon Polly.

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AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165