9 Best Articles in 2022
tbray.org
Bye, Amazon
tbray.org
4 min read · From 2020 · May 1st was my last day as a VP and Distinguished Engineer at Amazon Web Services, after five years and five months of rewarding fun. I quit in dismay at Amazon firing whistleblowers who were making…
Reader View · Shared by 369, including DHH, @wef @davos #wef22 R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A Metaverse, Martin Fowler, John Battelle, Daniel Jalkut, Ethan Marcotte, Eric_Meyer_v2_final_NEWFINAL.psd, Cory Doctorow, Brian LeRoux, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Kara Swisher, Tom Raftery 🇮🇪🇪🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦💉💉💉, Léonie, Tim Bray 💉💉💉🎉, Joanna J Bryson, Jeff Atwood, Kelsey D. Atherton, Bruce Lawson, getify, Chris Heilmann
Vox
How Amazon innovates in ways that Google and Apple can't
Vox
10 min read · From 2017 · Google and Apple each thrive in one market. Amazon innovates in everything from cloud computing to retail stores.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 249, including Nir Eyal, Stuart Chalmers, né, Leslie D, Claudia Sommer, Luzius Meisser, Dominik Grolimund, , Twitty, Mathew Ingram, Erick Mazer Yamashita, ThomNagy, Chung Chen, medien_logbuch, Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Jakub Albert Ferenc, Mike Ivars, Kris Fannin, Tom Connor, David Nagel
WIRED
How Amazon Rebuilt Itself Around Artificial Intelligence
WIRED
~19 min read · From 2018 · The Alexa voice platform and other deep learning projects have made Amazon an AI leader.
Shared by 400, including Chris Messina, Jane, Marc Gasser, Gerd Leonhard, Thomas Power, Stefan T, Ron McIntyre, Merkstatt, Azeem Azhar, Gideonro, Christian P. Stobbe, Teresa Torres, Patrick Scheuerer, Dez S. Papp, Bjoern Negelmann, Anthony Hamelle, Dominik Grolimund, Ha Duong, Herbert Bay, Weiting Chen
Stratechery
Amazon’s New Customer
Stratechery
8 min read · From 2017 · The key to understanding Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods is to understand that Amazon didn’t buy a retailer: the company bought a customer.
Reader View · Shared by 426, including Taylor Pearson, Diogo Mónica, Claudia Sommer, Johannes Lenz, Stephan Leduc, Nir Eyal, Martin Recke, Tim Herbig, Christian P. Stobbe, Honza Pav, Dominik Grolimund, Bill Johnston, Mark Kaigwa, Ben Tossell, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork, Helmi, Klaus Eck, janfsauer, Ronell Smith, Chris Messina
github.com
open-guides/og-aws: 📙 Amazon Web Services — a practical guide
github.com
From 2016 · og-aws - 📙 Amazon Web Services — a practical guide
Shared by 246, including Philipp Laurim, William El Kaim, Alligator.io 🐊, Daniel Williams, Brian, hiten.eth, Luca Hammer, Dominic Grzbielok, Marco Unternaehrer, Charlie O'Keefe, Pat Kua, Leo Polovets, Carl Morris, Matthew Turland, Chandan Jog, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Balda, Esther Schindler, Cameron Yick, Pete Skomoroch
TechCrunch
Amazon launches a Polly WordPress plugin that turns blog posts into audio, including podcasts
TechCrunch
5 min read · From 2018 · Amazon today is launching a new Amazon Polly WordPress plugin that gives your blog a voice by creating audio versions of your posts. The resulting audio can..
Reader View · Shared by 145, including Christian Müller, AJ Ghergich, Thomas Power, Ward Plunet, Mike Taylor, Tarik ESSAADI, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Mark Kaigwa, Kim Schläpfer, Damien Van Achter, Simone Corsi 💻🚀
WIRED UK
The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook
WIRED UK
20+ min read · From 2018 · If you have ever bought anything on Amazon, subscribed to Spotify or paid for a Lyft ride, you may be surprised to learn that software company Stripe may have processed your payment. Unlike PayPal, the $20 billion startup operates quietly in the background and won’t show up on your credit card bill. In Wired magazine, British journalist Steven Armstrong provides a colorful portrait of the company’s founders and their mission to facilitate e-commerce around the world.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 397, including Glyn Britton, Tris Hussey, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Thomas Power, Michael Duergner, 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Andreas Stegmann, Andreas Heer, Education Architects, Stefan T, Scott Murray, getAbstract, Philipp Laurim, Damien de France 🌍 🕊️🇺🇦, designshard, Tim Herbig, Scott Williams, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, hiten.eth
Chris Messina
Why Silicon Valley is all wrong about Amazon’s Echo Show
Chris Messina
~15 min read · From 2017 · So you think Amazon is a tech company? No, you’re wrong
Reader View · Shared by 288, including Brian Roemmele, Nir Eyal, Johannes Baeck, Simon Wüthrich, Thomas Power, Martin Recke, Andreas Von Gunten, Charlie O'Keefe, Eric Sinclair, Ilia Markov, Herbert Bay, Klaus Eck, Gideonro, Weiting Chen, Dominik Grolimund, Martin Hoffmann, Grégoire Japiot 🌻, Jochen Burkhard, Andreas Stegmann
Benedict Evans
The Amazon machine
Benedict Evans
5 min read · From 2017 · Amazon is a machine to make a machine, and the machine it makes is more Amazon.
Reader View · Shared by 150, including Martin Recke, Mathew Ingram, David Bauer, Kim Dik, Yonatan Levy, Daniel Druhm, Daniel Jörg, Nir Eyal, Ward Plunet, Ha Duong, Ilia Markov, Johannes Lenz, Marc Steffen, timoreilly
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How Do Big Tech Giants Make Their Billions?
Visual Capitalist
8 min read · Apr 25th · In 2021, the Big Five tech giants—Apple, Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Meta, and Microsoft—generated a combined $1.4 trillion in revenue. What are the sources of this revenue, and how does it breakdown?…
Reader View · Shared by 428, including ipfconline 🇺🇦, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, George J Huba PhD, Stefan Diepolder, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem
CNBC
This 49-year-old CEO used lessons from Amazon and Google to build a $1.5 billion start-up
CNBC
3 min read · May 12th · Faisal Masud worked his way up the ranks at Amazon, Google, eBay and Staples. Now, he's applying lessons from those companies to Fabric, a start-up valued at $1.5 billion.
The New York Times
How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon
The New York Times
~11 min read · Apr 2nd · The company’s crackdown on a worker protest in New York backfired and led to a historic labor victory.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 144, including Anne Helen Petersen, Dr Skye Cleary, Jason Stanley, Johannes Lenz, Craig Brown, PhD, Brian Stelter, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Lydia Polgreen, The Indian Express
infoworld.com
Artificial intelligence really isn’t all that intelligent
infoworld.com
5 min read · Mar 29th · Narrow AI applications such as Google Search and Amazon Alexa are great at solving specific problems, but only as long as you stick to the script.
Summary · Reader View · Shared by 78, including ipfconline 🇺🇦, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Mark Tabladillo PhD, Dr. Craig Brown, Andreas Staub, Terence Mills, Iain Brown, PhD, Ronald van Loon
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Quartz
Amazon owns a whole collection of secret brands
Quartz
5 min read · From 2017 · You've probably been buying way more things from Amazon than you realize.
Reader View · Shared by 221, including Leslie D, Thomas Telandro, Filippo Boninsegna📡, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Jacob Jarnvall, Thomas Power, Howard Getson, Mike Ivars, Adam Pasick, Stephanie A Kowalski, Dana DiTomaso, Rand Fishkin, mdy, Johannes Lenz, Markus Maurer, Agustin, Zain Fathoni, Merkstatt, Birgit Schefer, Alisa Silver
Stratechery
Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System
Stratechery
8 min read · From 2017 · Money is made at chokepoints, and the most valuable chokepoints are operating systems; Amazon has built exactly that with Alexa.
Reader View · Shared by 315, including Diogo Mónica, Stephen C Sanders, Nir Eyal, Nico Luchsinger, Brian Roemmele, Weiting Chen, Michael Gisiger, Klaus Eck, Florian Hanke 🍎, Aleyda Solis 🇺🇦, Jobologies, Chris Messina, Greg Meyer, Matthew Turland, Mario Camou, Kris Fannin, Emerson Macedo, Werner Vogels, Dominik Grolimund, Ilia Markov
BBC Breaking News
Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine
BBC Breaking News
~19 min read · From 2020 · Leo Kelion investigates the rise of Amazon and its huge data-gathering operation
Reader View · Shared by 205, including Abel Caballero Díaz, sircharlsxavier, luis antónio santos, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Jonathan Kogan, Andreas Staub, Merkstatt, Amber Mac, Tom Connor, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Nick Lüthi, Mark Anderson FCCT 💛✨👨🏽🏫🏆🌈, Katja Evertz
Gizmodo
Amazon Is Helping Researchers Study How to Dim the Sun
Gizmodo
9 min read · 2021-12-01 · Climate models are usually run on supercomputers. But Amazon has donated cloud computing time to run a model—with a twist.
Reader View · Shared by 157, including Christo Meid, kate wagner, 𝕯𝖍𝖆𝖗𝖓𝖆 𝕹𝖔𝖔𝖗
aws.amazon.com
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Cloud Computing Services
aws.amazon.com
20+ min read · From 2016 · Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. Free to join, pay only for what you use.
Reader View · Shared by 198, including Shep Hyken, Werner Vogels, Scott Brinker, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Prof. Arun Kumar वाघचौरे, Sandy.nft, ServiceNow, Confluent, Blackmagic Design, Dion Hinchcliffe, Kirk Borne, Yves Mulkers, Howard Getson, Andra Keay, Jeff Barr ☁️ (@ 🏠 ) 💉, Mathew Ingram, Marc Benioff, Brian Solis - briansolis.eth, Swizec Teller published SeniorMindset.com, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner
adayinthelifeof.nl
Amazon Web Services
adayinthelifeof.nl
9 min read · From 2020 · Posted on 20 May 2020 Tagged with: [ aws ] [ amazon ] More often than not, I’m using Amazon Web Services (AWS) as my “cloud”. Not only for my own projects, but almost all customers I’m working for use…
Reader View · Shared by 70, including Bryan Onel, Balda, Francis DB, Stefan Weber, Brian, René Stalder
The Economist
Corporate ambitions: Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started
The Economist
5 min read · From 2017 · Amazon has the potential to meet the expectations of investors. But success will bring a big problem
Shared by 191, including Stowe Boyd, Martina Grolimund, Thomas Power, Thomas Euler, Chung Chen, David Bauer, Nir Eyal, Werner Vogels, Merkstatt, Lukas Stickelberger, Patric Fornasier, tektology, Gideonro, ⎝Stéphan Lam⎠, Mike Ivars, Christophe Jean, Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Luzius Meisser, Sara Usinger, Dominik Grolimund
Stratechery
The Amazon Tax - Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Stratechery
9 min read · From 2016 · Amazon is building a lot of businesses that look like AWS: taxes on major industries that work to everyone’s benefit. The reason, though, is that AWS is a lot like Amazon itself.
Reader View · Shared by 180, including Chris Messina, Thomas Power, Klaus Eck, Dave Kemp, Martin Recke, Ilia Markov, Ryan Boren, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Mathew Ingram, Konrad Lischka, Weiting Chen, Ben Thompson, Stowe Boyd, Patrick Scheuerer, Mark Kaigwa, Greg Meyer, Dominik Grolimund, Nir Eyal, Rene Ritchie, hiten.eth
Vox
The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program
Vox
20+ min read · From 2019 · An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever.
Reader View · Shared by 295, including Guy Kawasaki, Cameron Yick, Josh Elman, Gabriele, Lelio Simi, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Thomas Power, Brian Roemmele, Michael Kroker, timoreilly, Jason Fried, Dan Gillmor, Adrian Zumbrunnen, ErmanTaylan.eth, Frederic Filloux, luis antónio santos, Mark Kaigwa, fernand0, Noah Kagan, Ian M Calvert
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