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3 commandments that should drive every API strategy

CIO

This approach goes a long way toward explaining how Amazon was able to externalize its computing infrastructure — first to Merchant.com, the company’s ecommerce-as-a-service platform for retailers to build their own online stores, and then to Amazon Web Services, a broader offering that has since taken a life of its own.

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AKUA lands $3.2M to turn kelp into burgers

TechCrunch

However, the company is dabbling in retail locations and has preorders from over 100 stores in New York, and she expects those will go out in the coming months, followed by stores in San Francisco and Los Angeles. AKUA started selling via direct to consumers in May and currently ships to all states except Alaska and Hawaii.

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Camunda Closes $100 Million Series B Funding Round to Automate Any Process, Anywhere

Bernd Rucker

For example the European retailer Zalando uses Camunda to automate their order fulfillment process. This collided with the peak times of the BPM and SOA ideas and tools. In essence, Camunda provides software to build software. We did a lot of workshops and trainings and thus had thousands of customer contacts back then.

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Links for 2009-05-08 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

Five ways to avoid SOA failure > Service Oriented Architectures > Information Architecture. Five ways to avoid SOA failure: [link] "The first rule about SOA: Don't talk about SOA." SOA is Dead' debate lives on and on | Service-Oriented Architecture | ZDNet.com. " ;-) [from [link].

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Hitachi Vantara and Connected Mainframe at SHARE 2019

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

Because of the mainframe’s proven ability to securely handle billions of daily transactions a day, this 50 year old technology is still used by 80% of the word’s largest airlines, financial institutions, and retailers.

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Links for 2009-05-07 [del.icio.us]

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

RT @benhedrington Hot @jowyang FriendFeed thread on bringing social into retail: [link] < Added my take [from [link]. Claude's Reading: Cloud and API Updates Will Drive ‘Significant’ SOA Growth [link] Hat tip @thecloudnetwork [from [link]. from [link]. Kmart and Sears launch social sites. Jeremiah Owyang - FriendFeed.

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The Growth of Open APIs: More Evidence That Web Services Drive Network Effects

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

They offered Web services many years after their initial retail site launched and it's achieved much of its success because of the early years Amazon spent driving economies of scale and inefficiencies out of their operations and then flipped that expertise into cost-effective open Web services offered to their already vast customer base.

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