Towards the end of February, AWS suffered a serious S3 outage. S3 is a file storage service intimately connected to other Amazon services. Many websites use S3 to store static assets like images and scripts. When S3 became unavailable, the sites that depended on those assets stopped working ” including Amazon's Status Page, which used S3 to store its icons. It's unfortunate … [Read more...] about Recent Cloud Outages Underline The Need For Infrastructure Diversity
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Recent Amazon Failures Leaves “Cloud” Forecast Unclear
Its been a rough few weeks for the cloud. Amazon Web Services, the public cloud division of internet juggernaut Amazon, suffered a mighty blow, crippling the internet on a Tuesday afternoon, while internet-connected teddy bears were hacked. If you could make God bleed, people would cease to believe in Him, Ivan Vanko tells Tony Stark in Iron Man 2. There will be blood in the … [Read more...] about Recent Amazon Failures Leaves “Cloud” Forecast Unclear
QCon San Francisco 2016
The 10th annual QCon San Francisco returns November 7-9, 2016 to the Bay Area. QCon, brought to you by InfoQ, is dedicated to providing a platform for innovators and early adopters to tell their story in cities such as Beijing, London, New York, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, San Francisco, and Tokyo. QCon SF offers 3 full days of technical sessions (Nov 7-9) that target senior … [Read more...] about QCon San Francisco 2016
How to Create an Amazon S3 Image Processing Pipeline in Python
Need to create a simple Amazon S3 image processing pipeline to batch edit images? Now that Algorithmia supports Amazon S3 integration, heres a quick way to automatically create thumbnails with custom dimensions. In this demo, well use SmartThumbnail, a microservice that uses face detection to perfectly crop every photo to the same size without awkwardly cropped heads or … [Read more...] about How to Create an Amazon S3 Image Processing Pipeline in Python
4 Examples of Big Data Implementation in Customer Micro-Segmentation
The digital age is rife with possibilities for organizations to further business and improve engagement and conversion. One great improvement technology has allowed us to develop is big data, or simply data that segments customers in a clear and organized way. There are various forms of data at your disposal. Its just a matter of choosing which one would better fit your current … [Read more...] about 4 Examples of Big Data Implementation in Customer Micro-Segmentation
