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A photography app for mobile, VSCO was born in the cloud in 2011. In the beginning, “we were using Rackspace and had one PHP monolith application talking to MySQL database, with FTP deployments, no containerization, no...

A global media and technology company, Comcast launched its X1 Cloud DVR service in 2014, allowing millions of customers to download or stream content onto mobile and IP-connected devices. Two years later, a new greenfield project...

In just seven years of existence, Uber has become an everyday convenience in more than 700 cities around the world. To help manage its exponential growth and resulting scale—the mobile app has connected riders and drivers...

For most of the 130 million Netflix subscribers waiting for the next season of Stranger Things, remote procedure calls (RPC) probably don’t mean anything. But for the Runtime Platform team responsible for improving developer productivity at...

In less than a decade, Ygrene has funded more than $1 billion in loans for renewable energy projects. A PACE (Property Assessed Clean Energy) financing company, “We take the equity in a home or a commercial...

Last fall, MacLeod Broad’s platform team at Workiva was prepping one of the company’s first products utilizing Amazon Web Services when they ran into a roadblock. Early on, Workiva’s backend had run mostly on Google App Engine....

The beauty of streaming television, like the service offered by Sling TV, is that you can watch it from any device you want, wherever you want. Of course, from the provider side of things, that creates...

Pinterest was born on the cloud—running on AWS since day one in 2010—but even cloud native companies can experience some growing pains. Since its launch, Pinterest has become a household name, with more than 200 million active...

Founded in 1851 and known as the newspaper of record, The New York Times is a digital pioneer: Its first website launched in 1996, before Google even existed. After the company decided a few years ago...

As a top 10 U.S. retail bank, Capital One has applications that handle millions of transactions a day. Big-data decisioning—for fraud detection, credit approvals and beyond—is core to the business. To support the teams that build applications with...