Bookmarks tagged “amazon”

Your stolen package is everyone’s problem

A thoroughly modern nuisance for consumers, shippers, and retailers alike.

Big Tech’s Biggest Bets (Or What It Takes to Build a Billion-User Platform)

Meta’s Reality Labs losses may be eye-watering, but such investments aren’t rare - and they’re looking increasingly essential to building (or disrupting) a billion user platform.

The Distributed Computing Manifesto | All Things Distributed

Today, I am publishing the Distributed Computing Manifesto, a canonical document from the early days of Amazon that transformed the architecture of Amazon's ecommerce platform. It highlights the challenges we were facing at the end of the 20th century, and hints at where we were

Amazon and the Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’ - The Atlantic

Surveillance isn’t just imposed on people: Many of us buy into it willingly.

Smashing bugs to set a world record: AWS BugBust - Stack Overflow Blog

The Moat Map – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

The Moat Map describes the correlation between the degree of supplier differentiation and the externalization (or internalization) of a company’s network effect.

Amazon: How Bezos built his data machine

Leo Kelion investigates the rise of Amazon and its huge data-gathering operation

Is Amazon Unstoppable?

Politicians want to rein in the retail giant. But Jeff Bezos, the master of cutthroat capitalism, is ready to fight back, Charles Duhigg writes.

Shopify and the Power of Platforms

It is all but impossible to beat an Aggregator head-on, as Walmart is trying to do with Amazon. The solution instead is to build a platform like Shopify.

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