Posts Tagged ‘amazon.com’
Rising In the Shadows of the Gaming Gods.
Posted by: Vijay on: May 11, 2008
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It was a world before the Amazon EC3 was available. Google needed servers and all they could lay their hands on were cheap and commodity hardware. In the true spirit of engineering, what came about was the solution of clustering all of them together to provide the same level of performance and efficiency that expensive [...]
The Secret Sauce behind Amazon.com
Posted by: Vijay on: April 17, 2008
In my dictionary, Amazon.com is one of the few web destinations, which truly stands upto what “e-commerce” means in its entirety. Jeff comes quite close to an aspiration in that matter as to how he envisioned the grand and made it happen, and still goes on attempting (the kindle is a good try to say [...]
What Amazon.com and Paypal Didn’t Do!
Posted by: Vijay on: November 15, 2007
Two great companies run by great visionaries. Paypal and Amazon.com. One transpired to become the biggest bookstore the world has ever seen – yet. The other became the eCommerce backbone for most of the internet business that goes on around.
All due credits and salutations aside, i do have somethings against these two companies.
When people were [...]
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