What does it take to raise seed funding as an AI-first SaaS startup? (Seed Edition —the 0.9 version ) Sep 30, 2018 At Point Nine, we have been focused on investing in SaaS companies and have been fortunate to work with several generations of successful businesses in this segment over the years. Since joining the firm […]
Archives for September 2018
5 Ways To Remove In-Store Friction With Computer Vision
The retail landscape is rapidly changing as consumers expect more convenience and better service across the entire retail customer journey. Research shows that 98% of retailers think their stores have to remove friction to survive in a new competitive landscape where seamless in-store experiences are expected. In the e-commerce world, companies like Stitch Fix, Warby […]
Comparing Serverless offerings from Alibaba Cloud and AWS
Last weekend, I had the chance to play around with Alibaba Cloud at the DevOps Meetup in my city. An Alibaba Cloud Solution Architect introduced the platform and was well trained on AWS as well, so he could compare both platforms for us. I also spent some time to figure out the details and finally, […]
Artificial Intelligence is the next battleground for civil rights
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“In a hospital in China, human doctors diagnosed a number of patients in a vegetative state as unlikely to ever wake up — but a second opinion from an algorithm said they would recover in less than a year. In seven cases, the algorithm was right. The AI algorithm, developed by the Chinese Academy of […]
A neglected serverless data store: Cloud Directory
Lately, I’ve been having much fun with Amazon Cloud Directory. Three months before, Cloud Directory was all new to me. Today, I am convinced that Cloud Directory is a neglected Serverless data store that deserves much more attention. Let me explain what Cloud Directory is and why it is an excellent choice in Serverless architectures. […]
Artificial Intelligence could make good health-care available to everyone in the world…
Awesome, not awesome. #Awesome“…a recent paper made the case that AI advances could help decrease global health-care discrepancies, particularly for people who live far away from urban centers. Researchers from Georgetown University and the nonprofit Washington Institute for Health Sciences noted that maternal mortality rate (often used as a signal for overall quality of health-care availability), […]
Using DevOps to Simplify Disaster Recovery
Disaster recovery plans are quickly outdated in today’s changing environments. One way to keep DR plans updated and tested is to incorporate DevOps practices. Maintaining up to date and correct disaster recovery (DR) plans is a constant challenge within an IT environment. Many companies struggle to maintain and validate their DR Plans, decreasing the likelihood […]
DevOps on AWS Radio
Paul Duvall (CTO at stelligent) interviewed Andreas and me for the DevOps on AWS Radio. We talked about: Our book Amazon Web Services in Action and what changed in the second edition Our top 3 recommendations for enterprises on what to do to be most successful on AWS Our top 3 recommendations for enterprises to […]