O'Reilly

MAY 19, 2020

O’Reilly Learning > We wanted to discover what our readers were doing with cloud, microservices, and other critical infrastructure and operations technologies. Without further ado, here are the key results: • At first glance, cloud usage seems overwhelming. More than half of respondents use multiple cloud services. •

Cloud 144

Cloud Serverless AWS DevOps 144

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2015

Cloud computing is enabling amazing new innovations both in consumer and enterprise products, as it became the new normal for organizations of all sizes. So many exciting new areas are being empowered by cloud that it is fascinating to watch. Cloud analytics are everywhere. Cloud enables self-service analytics.

Analytics 109

Analytics Cloud Healthcare Retail 109

High Scalability

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Know anyone who needs cloud? I wrote Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10 just for them. Retail investors have to put their money somewhere. Last time I checked, AWS was still lagging behind Azure and GCP on Kubernetes, but I have a strong feeling they're prioritizing improving EKS over ECS. What will the next 5 years look like?

Internet 188

Internet Internet Scalability Wireless 188

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. Given that I am originally from the Netherlands I have, of course, a special interest in how Dutch companies are using our cloud services. .

Cloud 102

Cloud Energy AWS Media 102

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2019

Checking out of a retail site. If you’re using locations from different cloud providers and need to differentiate between them, you can use the cloudPlatform property. location.cloudPlatform "AWS") {. Synthetic clickpath monitors are a great way to automatically monitor and benchmark business-critical workflows 24/7.

Monitoring 206

Monitoring Retail Benchmarking Tuning 206

All Things Distributed

JUNE 29, 2011

Driving Bandwidth Cost Down for AWS Customers. 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. Driving Storage Costs Down for AWS Customers. Comments ().

AWS 84

AWS Retail Innovation Strategy 84

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ?

Google 173

Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 173

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Today, I'm happy to announce that the AWS EU (Paris) Region, our 18th technology infrastructure Region globally, is now generally available for use by customers worldwide. The cloud is an opportunity to stay competitive in each of these domains by giving companies freedom to innovate quickly.

AWS 86

AWS Artificial Intelligence Education Energy 86

All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Today, we added two important choices for customers running high performance apps in the cloud: support for Redis in Amazon ElastiCache and a new high memory database instance (db.cr1.8xlarge) for Amazon RDS. AWS offers its customers a choice of different database services, each optimized for different workloads.

Cache 99

Cache Cloud Performance Retail 99

Dynatrace

JULY 13, 2020

Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes : . Cloud: A utomation of infrastructure and services on-demand, pay as you use model . Cloud-native? refers to cloud-based, containerized, distributed systems, made up of cooperating microservices, dynamically managed by automated infrastructure as code. . ?

Google 130

Google DevOps Ecommerce Cloud 130

All Things Distributed

MARCH 11, 2016

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. Given that AWS is a pioneer in building and operating these services world-wide, these lessons have been of crucial importance to our business. AWS helps its customers do this too. APIs are forever. Build security in from the ground up.

AWS 127

AWS Hardware Retail Virtualization 127

Dynatrace

JUNE 5, 2020

Our largest customers are global companies with absolutely massive application stacks, spreading across cloud and enterprise platforms, multiple physical geographies, tens of thousands of virtual and physical hosts and hundreds of thousands of containers. This API enhancement has been a massive success. Why this is important.

Speed 182

Speed Virtualization Retail Monitoring 182

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

" Of course, no technology change happens in isolation, and at the same time NoSQL was evolving, so was cloud computing. As we began growing the AWS business, we realized that external customers might find our Dynamo database just as useful as we found it within Amazon.com. million requests per second.

Internet 111

Internet Internet AWS Performance 111

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Improving the Cloud - More Efficient Queuing with SQS. 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. Comments ().

Efficiency 84

Efficiency Cloud Games Scalability 84

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. Bringing it all together.

Database 121

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 121

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

While datacenter based IT costs are largely fixed, in a three year depreciation schedule, cloud costs are inherently variable, and can be sized to fit the need. When times get tough, a focus on cost optimization can also greatly reduce cloud costs, and the results take effect in next month’s bill.

Cloud 52

Cloud Social Media Entertainment Healthcare 52

High Scalability

AUGUST 3, 2018

And if you know anyone looking for a simple book that uses lots of pictures and lots of examples to explain the cloud, then please recommend my new book: Explain the Cloud Like I'm 10. It would mean a great deal to me. They'll love you even more. $1 margin over the same period. year ago.

Internet 113

Internet Internet Scalability Blockchain 113

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. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018.

Development 101

Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 24, 2020

While datacenter based IT costs are largely fixed, in a three year depreciation schedule, cloud costs are inherently variable, and can be sized to fit the need. When times get tough, a focus on cost optimization can also greatly reduce cloud costs, and the results take effect in next month’s bill.

Cloud 40

Cloud Social Media Entertainment Healthcare 40

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

We launched DynamoDB last year to address the need for a cloud database that provides seamless scalability, irrespective of whether you are doing ten transactions or ten million transactions, while providing rock solid durability and availability.

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. The ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service , which runs in the Microsoft Azure cloud, hosts real-time digital twins for applications like these that need to track thousands of data sources.

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. The ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service , which runs in the Microsoft Azure cloud, hosts real-time digital twins for applications like these that need to track thousands of data sources.

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. The ScaleOut Digital Twin Streaming Service , which runs in the Microsoft Azure cloud, hosts real-time digital twins for applications like these that need to track thousands of data sources.

Logistics 52

Logistics Retail Analytics Azure 52

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