Category: Database

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.

Privacy and the handling of personal data continue to be a hot topic for media, government, companies and individuals alike. And with good reason.

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.

Together with its in-house sports scientists, JOHAN Sports has developed analytics modules to interpret the data it receives from its sensor with GNSS and deliver information on the physical state of sports players and their progress, as well as risk profiles for injury prevention.

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.

Michael Garski, Director of Platform Engineering at Fender Digital, shares why the combination of DynamoDB and AWS Elasticsearch is perfectly suited to Fender Play lesson content.

At last count, Smallpdf, the PDF conversion startup I work for, had roughly 13 million monthly users. As for the number of employees currently running our website? That would be 10—with only two employees focused on the backend and infrastructure. You might be curious to learn how we run such a processing intensive website with such a small DevOps team. Our little secret stands in automation and delegation.

Readaar co-founder Matthijs van Til explains how his startup, which buys imagery and sells data, learned how to sell their product to local governments.

Every day here at GIPHY, we have GIFs on GIFs on GIFs uploaded to our platform. In fact, we serve over three billion GIFs a day (that’s a lot of dancing cats!) to over 300 million daily active users. Every upload, however, brings new information and an increasingly large amount of data—this can become a lot to manage. Using database services like MySQL and DynamoDB, we’re able to organize this heavy amount of data in a high-performing way.

AWS’s annual re:Invent conference may not traditionally be known for its startup scene, but at this year’s iteration, Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut took advantage of the massive event to chat with five hot startups for his Startups on Air video series.