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Show Notes:

• Amazon's tech strategies and tools. 0:00

  • Amazon CEO in 2010: Emphasizes company's reliance on computer science techniques, including high-performance transaction systems, machine learning, and more.

• Innovative tech approaches at Amazon. 1:18

  • Amazon's technologies are built on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) with a focus on state management.

• Amazon's custom data storage solutions. 2:46

  • Amazon engineers have developed novel data management systems to meet extreme scalability requirements, relaxing synchronization requirements for updates to achieve ultra-scale properties.

• Amazon's use of machine learning for data processing and decision-making. 4:15

  • Amazon uses machine learning to improve search relevance and product categorization.

• Technology integration and innovation at Amazon. 5:27

  • Amazon's technology integrates across teams, processes, and innovation to provide seamless syncing of reading libraries across devices.

  • Bezos emphasizes alignment of shareholder and customer interests at Amazon.