Tag: Cloud Computing

Want to build a database-backed website, or the backend to a mobile app? Set up a WordPress or Drupal site, or just use an Amazon S3 bucket to store files? You can do all this and much more on AWS.

Open Solution, a Beijing-based cloud services startup, is on a mission to help both new and established companies integrate with the cloud to make better sense of their data.

Oil and gas operators are feeling the pinch. “Their wells are underperforming, so they can’t get enough oil out of the ground and they are missing financial forecasts,” says Josh Ulla, Chief Development Officer at Deep Imaging. Analytics are the life blood of the business world, but they haven’t yet taken a strong hold in the energy industry. That’s where startups like Deep Imaging Technologies come in.

ALICE, a platform for hotel staff to deliver exceptional hospitality to their guests, acquired a large competitor, GoConcierge with a global customer base of over 1k hotels. ALICE needed to migrate GoConcierge’s customers so they could benefit from the new platform. Here’s how they used AWS Glue to do it.

Like a dentist reminding you to floss and come in for a check-up every six months, Brian Johnson, co-founder and general partner at Crucyble, a cybersecurity consultancy that focuses on up-and-coming cloud-based businesses, shows his clients that good habits and regular check-ups are the best defense against future suffering.

Chris Cochran, CEO of ProsperOps, chats about how the software startup works. As a two-time founder and mentor at Capital Factory, he also shares insights into the current startup environment.

Bitstrapped CMO Jesse Albinston shares how the Toronto-based cloud computing software service partner works, what role trust plays in scaling the business, and what’s next in 2019.

Engineering Manager of Infrastructure, Jacob Stultz, and Senior Platform Engineer, Jeff Pollard, of Strava, share how they rely on a robust ephemeral cache in Redis to more quickly and effectively service the majority of their reads.

The information flight recorders, or airplane “black boxes,” provide is invaluable, but retrospective analysis can only do so much for you. It can give you answers to important questions, but it doesn’t have the power to prevent a negative event. But what if those black boxes could analyze the data they collected in real time, predict future events, and deploy an intervention before an accident happened?

In 2010, Finnish entrepreneur Teemu Kivimäki left academia to commercialize his research on the automation of construction, digital workflows, and automated control of heavy construction machinery to better serve the construction industry. Thus, Infrakit was born.