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The Amazon.com Technology Platform: Building Blocks for Innovation
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Summary
In this QCon presentation, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider, and how an increasing number of diverse businesses are built on the Amazon.com platform. Although Amazon.com's scale makes them seem an extreme case, lessons have been learnt that will be of use to every enterprise looking to provide services to or to consume services of business partners.
Bio
Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com. Prior to joining Amazon, he worked as a research scientist at Cornell University. He has held positions of VP of Technology and CTO in companies that handled the transition of academic technology into industry. Werner maintains a weblog at AllThingsDistributed.com.
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Dec 06, 2007