August, 2007

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The Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS)

All Things Distributed

Today Amazon AWS launched a limited public beta of Amazon FPS, the Amazon Flexible Payment Service. Amazon FPS is a payment service that is 100% focused on the needs of developers. Traditionally, developers have been limited in how they can manage payments. If they need to charge with a certain frequency, execute a transaction at a specific time, combine many smaller payments into one single transaction or want to charge a commission on a transaction between two of their customers, they need to

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Good Management Can Work Miracles

The Agile Manager

Pharmaceutical companies do not successfully deliver drugs just because they hire a lot of highly skilled researchers in lab coats. They deliver drugs because they have people to secure funding for research of some drugs over others, to take them through lab and clinical trial, to steer them through regulatory approval, to manufacture, to make doctors aware of them, to distribute them to hospitals and pharmacies, and to follow-up on results.

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No QA. No Backups. No Sleep

All Things Distributed

Midnight in Seattle. Amazon Hackday 2007 in progress.

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