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Amazon Dash Cart vs. ‘Just Walk Out’: We put the tech giant’s new grocery strategy to the test

GeekWire

Depending on the item, it was unclear whether we should use the built-in scanners on their barcodes, or enter items manually via a product code on the Dash Cart screen. Produce was especially difficult to deal with. In some cases, as with a package of blueberries, we gave up trying to scan and just fell back to entering the code manually.

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How Trainline’s CTO stays on track with professional development

CIO Business Intelligence

More recently, under the tutelage of former CTO Mark Holt, Trainline became a story of scale and mobility, moving to DevOps, agile principles and leveraging compute power through Amazon Web Services (AWS). The company sold more than 204 tickets every minute. Trainline remains on an upward trajectory.