Category: Amazon Simple Storage Services (S3)

Despite the promise and excitement around serverless, the ecosystem that supports these new, highly distributed architectures is nascent. Unlike Docker in the container world, there is no dominant standard yet. Tooling is still emerging. We believe the beginning of ecosystems like this is a promising investment opportunity.

As more companies move towards this mode of application development, we expect to see a massive amount of innovation around AI and machine learning, application of AI to vertically-focused applications, and new applications for IOT devices driven by the ability for companies to build products faster than ever.

Anand Jain, co-founder at CleverTap, explains how his company processes—in real time—55 billion data events per month and sends out over 10 billion messages per month.

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.

Blogging and content production have become the marketing tool of choice for many startups and a fair number of founders find themselves choosing WordPress to power their messaging. Already the content management system (CMS) of choice for 28% of the web, WordPress is the biggest self-hosted blogging tool in the world and perhaps the only […]

Guest post by Senthilkumar Ramaswamy, Lead Architect at Sprinklr and Rakesh Pillai, DevOps Lead Engineer at Sprinklr At Sprinklr, we help the largest brands in the world with marketing, advertising, research, care, and commerce via our unified customer experience management platform.  Integrated with Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and 22 other social channels globally, our platform uses […]