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AKUA lands $3.2M to turn kelp into burgers

TechCrunch

However, the company is dabbling in retail locations and has preorders from over 100 stores in New York, and she expects those will go out in the coming months, followed by stores in San Francisco and Los Angeles. AKUA started selling via direct to consumers in May and currently ships to all states except Alaska and Hawaii.

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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO

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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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

RT @benhedrington Hot @jowyang FriendFeed thread on bringing social into retail: [link] < Added my take [from [link]. Claude's Reading: Cloud and API Updates Will Drive ‘Significant’ SOA Growth [link] Hat tip @thecloudnetwork [from [link]. from [link]. Kmart and Sears launch social sites. Jeremiah Owyang - FriendFeed.

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Camunda Closes $100 Million Series B Funding Round to Automate Any Process, Anywhere

Bernd Rucker

For example the European retailer Zalando uses Camunda to automate their order fulfillment process. This collided with the peak times of the BPM and SOA ideas and tools. In essence, Camunda provides software to build software. We did a lot of workshops and trainings and thus had thousands of customer contacts back then.

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The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

They offered Web services many years after their initial retail site launched and it's achieved much of its success because of the early years Amazon spent driving economies of scale and inefficiencies out of their operations and then flipped that expertise into cost-effective open Web services offered to their already vast customer base.

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Craig St. Jean, From Young Programmer to Chief Technology Architect

Xebia

After the migration, we focused on service-oriented architecture (SOA), a pivotal predecessor to microservices. After my time with insurance, I moved to a global retail company specializing in jewelry, also using IBM WebSphere Application Server. While there, my career grew quite extensively.

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Airline Reservation Systems and Passenger Service Systems: Navitaire, Amadeus Altea, SabreSonic and more

Altexsoft

Currently, providers of PSSs are switching from monolithic to service-based design — either service-oriented architecture (SOA) or microservices. In the SOA scenario, software components communicate with each other via Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) using messaging protocols. Retailing platform.