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Mythbusting the Analytics Journey

The Netflix TechBlog

I completed a combined math bachelors + masters program, but without any professional guidance, networking, or internships, I was entirely lost. I entered a PhD program in Computer Science and shortly thereafter discovered I really liked the coding aspects more than the theory. I had the piece of paper, but what next?

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'Paris s'éveille'! Introducing the AWS EU (Paris) Region

All Things Distributed

French companies are using AWS to innovate in a secure way across industries as diverse as energy, financial services, manufacturing, media, pharmaceuticals and health sciences, retail, and more. We have also been investing in helping to grow the entire French IT community with training, education, and certification programs.

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Dutch Enterprises and The Cloud

All Things Distributed

Unilever – Unilever R&D program intended to accelerate the company’s scientific progress through improved access to global information. It makes use of the Eagle Genomics platform running on AWS, resulting in that Unilever’s digital data program now processes genetic sequences twenty times faster—without incurring higher compute costs.

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How Application of Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Business

Testsigma

The machines are programmed in such a way that they think like humans and can imitate our actions. The machine uses those programmed scenarios for decision making. Deep learning: employs artificial neural networks that keep learning constantly by processing both negative and positive data. What is Artificial Intelligence?

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

Dynatrace

For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. Instead, to speed up response times, applications are now processing most data at the network’s perimeter, closest to the data’s origin. The nightmare scenario for online retailers during peak periods, such as Black Friday and Cyber Monday, is a system crash.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

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. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet. Rick Viscomi. Rick Viscomi. Phil Walton.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud: Introducing the AWS Europe (London) Region

All Things Distributed

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. Fraud.net is a good example of this.

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