Tag: AWS Lofts

From unanticipated service failures to load-related performance degradations, infrastructure event readiness planning is critical for handling seasonal traffic spikes gracefully and dynamically. Without proper preparation, your best sales day could become your last. Gain insights into how Elaine Arbaugh, Senior Software Engineer and SRE tech lead, at fintech startup Affirm managed the massive influx of activity during the 2018 Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday shopping weekend by building a scale-up, fault tolerant, database system that was able to handle 5x a normal day’s scale.

Ilya Volodarsky, Co-founder at Segment—a customer data infrastructure startup—shares how startups can leverage analytics to answer the tough questions and enable growth.

Saumitra Das, CTO & Co-founder, and Ali Ahmadzadeh, Head of AI, at Blue Hexagon, share the volume and velocity challenges in the threat landscape today.

When creating your startup’s online presence, it’s essential to understand the vital role that content marketing plays. From blog and social media posts, to videos, and press releases – good content lasts forever and can do wonders for your SEO. Director of Marketing at HubSpot for Startups, Amanda Sibley, shares the benefits of creating and distributing valuable, relevant, and consistent content. She discusses how this cost-effective alternative to traditional marketing can differentiate a startup’s brand and build authority, reputation, and a voice of influence.

When Branch Metrics grew from zero to billions of daily transactions their engineering team had a major storage challenge that was far beyond their expectations.

David Crane, Director of Engineering at DonorsChoose.org; Nick Horelick, Co-founder & CTO at RapidSOS; and Ben Haas, VP of Engineering at Call9; sit down with Tracy Baldwin, Global Lead of AWS Sustainability, to discuss how they’re using “tech for good” to tackle big problems and driving social change in their communities.

With competition at an all time high, it’s critical that startups deliver technical features quickly without compromising quality or security. CLEAR, a biometric security startup popular at U.S. airports, has been successful at both quality and security for their customers while running on AWS and leveraging Terraform and GitOps practices.

Jeremy Johnson, Co-founder & CEO of Andela, a startup that builds and trains high-performing distributed engineering teams, joins us at the AWS Loft NYC to share how startups can build a solid recruitment strategy that attracts top players.

Founders and experts from Nestio, REX Real Estate, MetaProp, Compound Asset Management, and Corigin Ventures, met at the AWS Loft in NYC to discuss how the application of AI, automation, big data, and other emerging technologies can offer boundless opportunities and benefits for entrepreneurs looking to tap into the market.

Eric Yip, Co-founder and CTO of adtech startup Track Revenue, recently joined us at the AWS Loft in San Francisco to share the mistakes and lessons learned along their journey to a scalable architecture.