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How AWS helps SkySight build custom weather reports for aviation companies
Who likes to talk about the weather? Pilots. In fact they need to do a lot more than talk about the weather. They need to know the data from the inside out. But of course predicting weather patterns remains not only one of the oldest challenges for humanity but one of the most complicated challenges for computers of the future. And so companies like SkySight have grown into the niche of building custom reports on the weather for aviation companies.
Read MoreHow one Swiss startup used the cloud to achieve the same level of security as a Swiss Bank
Like many startups today, Nummo was born in the cloud and given our industry and our future goals, we wouldn’t compromise any other aspects of our offering. People needed to feel their data is secure when using Nummo.
Read MoreHow HackerOne Uses the Cloud to Fix Security Vulnerabilities at Scale
83,000. That’s how many security vulnerabilities HackerOne has fixed to date thanks to hacker-supplied reports to their platform. “The data speaks for itself,” says Reed Loden, HackerOne’s director of security. “The types of vulnerabilities, the complexity to the vulnerabilities, the cleverness to the vulnerabilities is stuff that you’re just not going find from paying just a variety of security consultancy firms… it all comes down to number of people.”
Read MoreHow Signal Media uses EC2 Spot and ECS to scale its AI Platform and reduce costs
Every day, Signal ingests millions of documents from a growing number of publishers, including online media, print newspapers, broadcast, regulation and legislation. Our text analytics pipeline processes these documents in real time, applying our own AI algorithms and machine learning, preparing them to be searched from our application and distributed via our alerts system.
Read MoreHow Duetto is modernizing the multi-billion dollar hospitality industry
The hospitality industry was once a hotbed of innovation. Back in the 1960’s, for example, the Holiday Inn developed and launched the Holidex, a first-of-its-kind centralized reservation system. In a time before the internet, this piece of technology helped set the then 15-year old company apart. But times have changed, according to Patrick Bosworth, CEO and Co-Founder of Duetto.
Read MoreMachine learning on limit order book data for surveillance and compliance
There are two key types of market participants; those who are trying to make money from the markets and those who are assigned to police those trying to make money. Examples of the former type include investment banks, hedge funds and asset managers, while examples of the latter includes in-house compliance, financial regulators and exchange surveillance teams.
Read MoreAmazon Fleet Management: Meet the Man Who Keeps Amazon Servers Running, No Matter What
Picture this: You oversee a fleet of servers that supports one of the world’s most massive online retail companies, and a special promotion everyone thought would bump sales by 21% is actually giving closer to a 120% boost—all in the first minute. That’s exactly where Brian Herman, Director of Datacenter Compute Capacity at Amazon Web Services, was standing in 2015, moments after the first Prime Day launched.
Read MoreFriction Burns: Three steps the startup Tyk.io takes to reduce friction
Tyk is an independent API Gateway and Management platform, comprising of an open source API Gateway, and proprietary management dashboard. It’s only the beginning of our journey, but so far, it’s been an exciting and fast-paced one.
Read MoreStartups on Air takes on London
Mackenzie Kosut, Global Startup Evangelist, and Startups on Air, Kosut’s video series, took London by storm last week, chatting with CEOs, CTOs, and lead engineers from eight different startups throughout the city.
Read MoreStartups on Air Hits HIMSS 2018
Over 40,000 attendees from every corner of healthcare descended upon Las Vegas last week for the annual HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Conference. Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut took advantage of this massive event to talk to nine healthcare startups, weaving his way through the expo halls to chat with CEOs, CTOs, and heads of engineering for his Startups on Air video series.
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