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How technology unlocks business models: The story of Netflix

TechCrunch

The CD, sent by USPS in a greeting card envelope, arrived safely the next day. Another idea that wasn’t feasible was taking on Blockbuster by shipping VHS tapes, which were too big and bulky to be shipped via regular mail, and FedEx was going to eat into the profit margins something awful.

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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

TechCrunch

Where, then, does Kobeissi see Capsule’s USP — i.e. if/when there’s a sea of decentralized ‘mega-apps’ that can also claim resilience to censorship? DFINITY raises $102M from a16z and Polychain for a decentralised ‘Internet Computer’ to rival AWS. gallery ids="2122777,2122775,2122776"].

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Edge Computing: Use Cases, Key Providers, and Implementation Options

Altexsoft

US Postal Services (USPS) delivers 7.3 Daily, each edge server processes 20 terabytes of images from more than 1000 USPS sorting machines. FreeRTOS and Greengrass extend the AWS IoT platform, enabling third-party developers to program and manage edge devices qualified to work with Amazon cloud. Source: CNN. Source: Nordcloud.

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Amazon’s Blockchain Venture: Understanding the Bigger Picture

Brainvire

In November 2018, the cloud giant AWS announced two distributed ledger services powered by Blockchain technology. In this article, I will shed a light on the intricacies of these Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings along with their USPs. It is extremely easy to get started with for those who are well-versed with the AWS console.

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Why And When To Choose Microservices Over Monolithic Application Architecture

Sunflower Lab

With microservices platforms, such as the AWS microservices architecture, you have to plan and carefully coordinate the rollout of changes for each service. Each miroservice, like those supported by AWS microservices architecture, can be individually tested. This makes the entire architecture highly stable and reliable.

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How To Build An App Like Zesty – Features & Functionalities, Market Trends & Cost

Xicom

The USP of Zesty app is their “Dietician”. Yes, Zesty is an online food delivery app that offers customized high in nutritional value meals to as small as 20 persons to big corporations gathering with 1000+ employees meeting from local restaurants to office goers. Below I have Pocketed some technologies stacks: Push Notifica tions .