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Upbeat on AI: FinTechs Forecast Rebound Informed with Deep Learning
Hicham Oudghiri, chief executive of Enigma, was one of several FinTech CEOs that recently spoke to us about how cloud services and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are fueling the rise of conversational AI and recommendation systems. In addition to Enigma, we also spoke to representatives from Ocrolus, NerdWallet, AWS, and internally from NVIDIA to get their thoughts on this hyper-relevant topic.
Read MoreHow Backbase Leveraged EC2 Hibernation to Reduce Compute Spending by 30%
Backbase is a leader in digital first, omni-channel banking platform and creator of the Backbase Digital-First Banking Platform, a state-of-the-art digital banking software solution that unifies data and functionality from traditional core systems and new fintech players into a seamless, digital customer experience. As they grew, they found that they needed a way to keep resourcing costs low. Here’s how they leveraged Amazon EC2 hibernation to do it.
Read MoreHow CAPMO uses AWS to Revolutionize the Construction Industry
The construction industry in Germany is second to last when it comes to digitalization, but software startup Capmo hopes to change that by seamlessly integrating with modern technologies and advancements in other fields, as well as newly gained insights from analyzing data to drive disruption of the industry.
Read MoreHow dely Uses Amazon SageMaker to Provide Personalized Recipe Recommendations
Since dely is able to create its own recipe content, the startup can control both human wave-attack based and rule-based annotation, as well as how to apply feedback from user activities. In particular, Amazon SageMaker allows dely to train and deploy models quickly without the cost of additional resources. Here’s how.
Read MoreReverie Labs: Scaling Drug Development with Containerized Machine Learning
Reverie Labs uses computation to drive the development of therapeutics for cancer. To do this, they’ve built substantial cloud-based infrastructure to train machine learning models, deploy models to production, and build and ship internal-facing applications for our chemistry teams.
Read MoreeeMobility and Infrastructure as Code: A Migration Story
Not long ago, eeMobility was fully dependent on an external team who decided how and where to run its software. Initially this allowed them to focus on developing our very young software solution and deliver feature after feature. However, as both the platform and the desire to become independent evolved, they knew an infrastructure solution tailored to fit our needs was a must. Here’s what they did next.
Read MoreOpenVPN on Protecting Gig Employees & Remote Workers with a VPN
At OpenVPN, which provides secure and scalable communication services, we wanted to launch a virtual private network (VPN) using AWS to provide our remote workforce with security and privacy wherever they are. Here’s how we did it and how it would fit for a use case for a small business.
Read MoreReimagining Data Protection with SaaS Startup Druva
Druva was born in 2007 when Jaspreet Singh, Ramani Kothandaraman and Milind Borate came together with the thought of disrupting the data protection market. Data protection solutions had become cumbersome to deploy and manage. More often than not, you faced issues when you tried to restore data that was backed up months ago. They wanted to change that.
Read More1Ticket Leadership on Scalability, Automation, and Enabling the Flip Economy
We recently sat down with ticket brokerage platform 1ticket.com CEO Jason Knieriem and CTO Shakir James to learn more about the early challenges they faced as the business grew, how they’ve scaled, and what’s next.
Read MoreRevamping the Cure.Fit Cloud: A Kubernetes Story
Individual teams at Cure.fit, a health and fitness app, tried solving poor resource utilization issues by manually clubbing compatible services. Instead of applying band-aid solutions they decided it was time to fix both problems permanently. Here’s how they did it.
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