by John Rossman | May 6, 2014 | Blog
March 13, 2014 — Amazon confirmed that it will increase the annual fee on it’s customer loyaly program Prime from $79 to $99 per year effective March 20th. In the Wall Street Journal, it is reported that analyts predict fewer than 10% of existing...
by John Rossman | May 6, 2014 | Blog
The Wall Street Journal’s article on April 16th titled Finding Stock Plays in the Cloud highlights several interesting data points for those of us following the cloud computing market: Amazon has cut AWS prices by 34% since October Google has reduced prices by 23% in...
by John Rossman | Apr 8, 2014 | Blog
n the 1983 movie Return of the Jedi, at the moment when Luke is most tempted to give into his hate and the dark side, Emperor Palpatine goats Luke: “Come, boy, see for yourself. From here, you will witness the final destruction of the Alliance and the end of your...
by John Rossman | Feb 28, 2014 | Blog
The insightful article from the WSJ from Tuesday – Amazon’s Current Employees Raise the Bar for New Hires (https://on.wsj.com/1a2eIMO) is a great overview of the Amazon recruiting process and “bar raiser” program but really only told half the story. The half of the...
by John Rossman | Apr 16, 2014 | Blog
AWS (Amazon Web Services) announced the release of Kinesis – Streaming data service brings real-time decision-making to Big Data. Why is that important? The “internet of things” or IoT is the enablement on a massive scale of self-monitoring, IP enabled devices all...
