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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO Business Intelligence

This approach goes a long way toward explaining how Amazon was able to externalize its computing infrastructure — first to Merchant.com, the company’s ecommerce-as-a-service platform for retailers to build their own online stores, and then to Amazon Web Services, a broader offering that has since taken a life of its own.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

All Things Distributed

To our shareowners: Random forests, naïve Bayesian estimators, RESTful services, gossip protocols, eventual consistency, data sharding, anti-entropy, Byzantine quorum, erasure coding, vector clocks. Look inside a current textbook on software architecture, and youll find few patterns that we dont apply at Amazon.

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Living Networks - Chapter 9: The Flow of Services - Reframing Digital and Professional Services

Trends in the Living Networks

For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition. Living Networks - Chapter 9: The Flow of Services. Reframing Digital and Professional Services. Tags: Living Networks book. However the principles remain the same.

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