Working with technology companies, I’m amazed at how many are hosting their platforms on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Netflix, Reddit, AOL, and Pinterest are now running on Amazon services. Even GoDaddy is moving a majority of its infrastructure there. Key to the popularity is the combination of the high availability and low cost. Amazon S3, for example, is designed to deliver 99.999999999% availability, serving trillions of objects worldwide. Amazon is notorious for its aggressive pricing and AWS’ is no different. That high availability and low cost has been attractive to startups who wish to scale
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5 Most Common Mistakes Made by JavaScript Developers
JavaScript is the base language for virtually all the modern day web applications. In the past few years, we have seen an increase in the overall number of powerful JavaScript-based libraries and frameworks in building web applications. This worked for Single Page Applications as well as server-side JavaScript platforms. JavaScript has definitely become omnipresent in the world of web development. This is why it is a major skill that should be mastered by web developers. JavaScript might look really simple in the first look. Though building basic JavaScript functionality is really a simple and straight
What is Healthcare Marketing?
When you’ve gotten into a car accident, fallen down or suffered some other type of serious injury, the last thing you’re likely thinking about is which emergency room you want to visit based on the last commercial, billboard or email newsletter you saw. The sales funnel really doesn’t apply during an emergency. However, healthcare marketing is much more than marketing emergency departments and intensive care units. Hospitals, urgent care clinics, and wellness centers are responsible for promoting a wide range of services that map back to the sales funnel. While healthcare marketing is similar to
Black Friday Ecommerce Statistics for 2018
Black Friday continues to be the most popular shopping day on the planet, with most of it in retail outlets. 2018 had incredible growth, with a 23% increase in overall sales and 9% increase in average order value! Consumer enthusiasm drove online sales to new heights this Black Friday 2018 weekend at $18B in turnovers just in the United States. This trend reflects globally as well, as more retailers across Europe and Asia adopt the occasion to promote sales. Joyce Qian, ContactPidgeon One change in behavior that was observed was that consumers began increasing their
Social Media Image Dimension Guide for 2019
It seems every week that a social network is changing layouts and requiring new dimensions for their profile photos, the background canvas, and images that are shared on the networks. Limitations for social images are a combination of dimension, image size – and even the amount of text that’s displayed within the image. I would caution against uploading oversized images to social media sites. They use aggressive image compression that often leaves your images blurry. If you can upload a great image and compress the image with a service before uploading it, you’ll get much