All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

In supply chain management, connections between airports, warehouses, and retail aisles are critical for cost and time optimization. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business. Graph databases at Amazon.

Database 121

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

The bold ones were building distributed architectures using SOA, trying to implement ESBs and this all looked good on paper but ended up being difficult to implement. . ? Containers and Microservices: R evolution in the architecture of distributed systems . ? But a perfect storm was brewing on the horizon. Cloud-native?

Google 130

Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 130

O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

AWS is far and away the cloud leader, followed by Azure (at more than half of share) and Google Cloud. But most Azure and GCP users also use AWS; the reverse isn’t necessarily true. Amazon and AWS Ascendant. If Microsoft and Google really are coming on strong, they aren’t dislodging Amazon and AWS.

Cloud 144

Cloud Serverless AWS DevOps 144

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Choosing your database architecture may be the most critical decision you’ll make and has a disproportionate impact on the performance, scalability, and availability of your app. No single database architecture or solution can meet all of Amazon.com’s or our customers’ needs.

Cache 99

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 99

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

This spring I travelled through Europe for the AWS Global Summit series. Europe is a continent with much diversity and for each country there are great AWS customer examples to tell. To reach those goals, Shell in 2010 began using AWS. Shell leverages AWS for big data analytics to help achieve these goals.

Cloud 102

Cloud Energy AWS Media 102

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% margin over the same period. asymco : Apple Q4 Sales Guidance $60B-$62B vs $52.58B year ago, Gross Margin 38-38.5%

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

For example, AWS customers use SQS for asynchronous communication pipelines, buffer queues for databases, asynchronous work queues, and moving latency out of highly responsive requests paths. Similarly, AWS customers have been using SQS in interesting ways.

Efficiency 84

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 84

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

link] Abiade moved from Expedia to work at AWS and she presented again in 2019 at re:Invent with examples from Lyft showing how they cut the AWS spend component of their cost per ride by 40% by making cost visible and providing tools to optimize. link] For a deep dive on savings plans, this video is excellent.

Cloud 52

Cloud Social Media Entertainment Healthcare 52

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

When designing a new application that will operate in the AWS cloud, first take a look at DynamoDB when selecting a database. DynamoDB continues to be embraced for workloads in Gaming, Ad-tech, Mobile, Web Apps, and other segments where scale and performance are critical.

Games 109

Games Scalability Database Retail 109

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

ScaleOut Software

JANUARY 9, 2020

Consider a retail chain of stores or restaurants with tens of thousands of outlets. It can receive telemetry from retail stores over the Internet using event delivery systems such as Azure IoT Event Hub, AWS, Kafka, and REST, and it can respond back to the retail stores in milliseconds.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

link] Abiade moved from Expedia to work at AWS and she presented again in 2019 at re:Invent with examples from Lyft showing how they cut the AWS spend component of their cost per ride by 40% by making cost visible and providing tools to optimize. link] For a deep dive on savings plans, this video is excellent.

Cloud 40

Cloud Social Media Entertainment Healthcare 40

Adrian Cockcroft

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Photo by Adrian of my father’s “round tuit” which I’m hoping will inspire AWS to do something… There’s an old saying that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered with a “no”. Learn from Nasdaq, whose AI-powered environmental, social, and governance (ESG) platform uses Amazon Bedrock and AWS Lambda.

AWS 98

AWS Energy Lambda Government 98