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Development
Loose Thinking and Tight Analysis
Mr. Bezos, moreover, has become a proponent of kaizen, which means “continuous improvement” in Japanese…
For Amazon and Mr. Bezos, that balance has always been there. Experiments were encouraged, then the results measured. This combination of loose thinking and tight analysis seems to be very productive.
NYTimes: Curious at Amazon, but Not IdleThis seems a powerful combination. [...]
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Cloud
AWS and Hadoop
The New York Times used 100 Amazon EC2 instances and a Hadoop application to process 4TB of raw image TIFF data (stored in S3) into 1.1 million finished PDFs in the space of 24 hours at a computation cost of about $240 (not including bandwidth).
NY Times: Self-service, Prorated Super Computing Fun!The project was so easy, [...]
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Cloud
Cloud Computing
I’ve been playing around with hosting websites on virtual instances on Amazon’s Electric Cloud Compute (EC2).
I’m in the process of writing a tutorial on how to get up and running: Cloud Web Hosting: AWS
John Bullard
