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Jeff Bezos on innovation: Amazon ‘willing to be misunderstood for long periods of time’ - GeekWire
We are stubbon on vision. We are flexible on details…. We don’t give up on things easily. Our third party seller business is an example of that. It took us three tries to get the third party selle... Read more
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation
Tags: amazon, innovation, via:packrati.us, bezos, strategy, entrepreneurship, management, quotes, advice, amazon.com Saved by: admin at 08 Jun 2011
We are stubbon on vision. We are flexible on details…. We don’t give up on things easily. Our third party seller business is an example of that. It took us three tries to get the third party selle... Read more
http://www.geekwire.com/2011/amazons-bezos-innovation
Tags: amazon, innovation, via:packrati.us, bezos, strategy, entrepreneurship, management, quotes, advice, amazon.com Saved by: admin at 08 Jun 2011
DIY node.js server on Amazon EC2
I'm involved with a project where our ruby/rails developer dropped out, so I decided to take on the job using node.js (rather than learn rails). We initially were using services from dotCloud, but it ... Read more
http://cuppster.com/2011/05/12/diy-node-js-server-on-amazon-ec2
Tags: node.js, ec2, amazon, javascript, nodejs, tutorial, aws, hosting, sysadmin, git Saved by: admin at 18 May 2011
I'm involved with a project where our ruby/rails developer dropped out, so I decided to take on the job using node.js (rather than learn rails). We initially were using services from dotCloud, but it ... Read more
http://cuppster.com/2011/05/12/diy-node-js-server-on-amazon-ec2
Tags: node.js, ec2, amazon, javascript, nodejs, tutorial, aws, hosting, sysadmin, git Saved by: admin at 18 May 2011
How Amazon Controls Ecommerce (Slides)
When you think about ecommerce, you think about Amazon. But how did a company that started with online books come to dominate an estimated one third of ecommerce in the U.S.? In the 72 slides above, g... Read more
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/how-amazon-controls-ecommerce-slides/
Tags: amazon, ecommerce, business, marketing, strategy, statistics, e-commerce, inspiration, via:packrati.us, online Saved by: admin at 13 May 2011
When you think about ecommerce, you think about Amazon. But how did a company that started with online books come to dominate an estimated one third of ecommerce in the U.S.? In the 72 slides above, g... Read more
http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/11/how-amazon-controls-ecommerce-slides/
Tags: amazon, ecommerce, business, marketing, strategy, statistics, e-commerce, inspiration, via:packrati.us, online Saved by: admin at 13 May 2011
Summary of the Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS Service Disruption
The issues affecting EC2 customers last week primarily involved a subset of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (“EBS”) volumes in a single Availability Zone within the US East Region that became unabl... Read more
http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/
Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, cloud, outage, ebs, postmortem, via:packrati.us, toread, hosting Saved by: admin at 30 Apr 2011
The issues affecting EC2 customers last week primarily involved a subset of the Amazon Elastic Block Store (“EBS”) volumes in a single Availability Zone within the US East Region that became unabl... Read more
http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/
Tags: amazon, aws, ec2, cloud, outage, ebs, postmortem, via:packrati.us, toread, hosting Saved by: admin at 30 Apr 2011
The Netflix Tech Blog: Lessons Netflix Learned from the AWS Outage
Create More Failures Currently, Netflix uses a service called "Chaos Monkey" to simulate service failure. Basically, Chaos Monkey is a service that kills other services. We run this service because we... Read more
http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html
Tags: aws, architecture, netflix, amazon, cloud, ec2, scalability, design, outage, postmortem Saved by: admin at 30 Apr 2011
Create More Failures Currently, Netflix uses a service called "Chaos Monkey" to simulate service failure. Basically, Chaos Monkey is a service that kills other services. We run this service because we... Read more
http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/04/lessons-netflix-learned-from-aws-outage.html
Tags: aws, architecture, netflix, amazon, cloud, ec2, scalability, design, outage, postmortem Saved by: admin at 30 Apr 2011
How SmugMug survived the Amazonpocalypse « SmugMug's Don MacAskill
Amazon has some explaining to do about how this outage affected multiple AZs, no question. Even so, high volume sites like Netflix and SmugMug remained online, so there are clearly cloud strategies th... Read more
http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/24/how-smugmug-survived-the-amazonpocalypse/
Tags: aws, amazon, ec2, cloud, scalability, smugmug, ebs, outage, hosting, via:packrati.us Saved by: admin at 26 Apr 2011
Amazon has some explaining to do about how this outage affected multiple AZs, no question. Even so, high volume sites like Netflix and SmugMug remained online, so there are clearly cloud strategies th... Read more
http://don.blogs.smugmug.com/2011/04/24/how-smugmug-survived-the-amazonpocalypse/
Tags: aws, amazon, ec2, cloud, scalability, smugmug, ebs, outage, hosting, via:packrati.us Saved by: admin at 26 Apr 2011
Amazon’s $23,698,655.93 book about flies
"behavior of profnath is easy to deconstruct. They presumably have a new copy of the book, & want to make sure theirs is the lowest priced…Why though would bordeebook want to make sure theirs is alw... Read more
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
Tags: amazon, algorithms, books, pricing, via:packrati.us, funny, book, algorithm, price, business Saved by: admin at 24 Apr 2011
"behavior of profnath is easy to deconstruct. They presumably have a new copy of the book, & want to make sure theirs is the lowest priced…Why though would bordeebook want to make sure theirs is alw... Read more
http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358
Tags: amazon, algorithms, books, pricing, via:packrati.us, funny, book, algorithm, price, business Saved by: admin at 24 Apr 2011
How our small startup survived the Amazon EC2 Cloud-pocalypse
RT @newsycombinator: How our small startup survived the Amazon EC2 cloud-pocalypse http://j.mp/hiEllY @frasiocht
http://xenon.stanford.edu/~silver/ec2outage.html
Tags: amazon, ec2, aws, scalability, startup, sysadmin, !pending, cloud, cloudcomputing, disasterrecover Saved by: admin at 24 Apr 2011
RT @newsycombinator: How our small startup survived the Amazon EC2 cloud-pocalypse http://j.mp/hiEllY @frasiocht
http://xenon.stanford.edu/~silver/ec2outage.html
Tags: amazon, ec2, aws, scalability, startup, sysadmin, !pending, cloud, cloudcomputing, disasterrecover Saved by: admin at 24 Apr 2011
AWS Developer Forums: Life of our patients is at stake - I am ...
This is the sort of thing that is considered "gross negligence" and makes people personally liable in lawsuits. It's got nothing to do with the cloud, and everything to do with terrible architecture.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=65649&tstart=0
Tags: via:packrati.us, aws, cloud, amazon, monitoring, engineering, medical, #compsci, badtech, blog Saved by: admin at 24 Apr 2011
This is the sort of thing that is considered "gross negligence" and makes people personally liable in lawsuits. It's got nothing to do with the cloud, and everything to do with terrible architecture.
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=65649&tstart=0
Tags: via:packrati.us, aws, cloud, amazon, monitoring, engineering, medical, #compsci, badtech, blog Saved by: admin at 24 Apr 2011
The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment - O'Reilly Broadcast
"In short, if your systems failed in the Amazon cloud this week, it wasn't Amazon's fault. You either deemed an outage of this nature an acceptable risk or you failed to design for Amazon's cloud comp... Read more
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/04/the-aws-outage-the-clouds-shining-moment.html
Tags: amazon, cloud, availability, aws, cloudcomputing, ec2, web, !pending, cloud_computing, computing Saved by: admin at 24 Apr 2011
"In short, if your systems failed in the Amazon cloud this week, it wasn't Amazon's fault. You either deemed an outage of this nature an acceptable risk or you failed to design for Amazon's cloud comp... Read more
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2011/04/the-aws-outage-the-clouds-shining-moment.html
Tags: amazon, cloud, availability, aws, cloudcomputing, ec2, web, !pending, cloud_computing, computing Saved by: admin at 24 Apr 2011