Clearly, we are not in Kansas anymore when we see Jeff Bezos of amazon lead off his annual shareholder letter with that …and then continue throughout his letter
“The diversity of products demands that we employ modern regression techniques like trained random forests of decision trees to flexibly
incorporate thousands of product attributes at rank time.”
“Service-oriented architecture -- or SOA -- is the fundamental building abstraction for Amazon technologies. Thanks to a thoughtful and far-sighted team of engineers and architects, this approach was applied at Amazon long before SOA became a buzzword in the industry.” (BTW my last book goes a bit into their SOA project)
and summarize with
“Now, if the eyes of some shareowners dutifully reading this letter are by this point glazing over, I will awaken you by pointing out that, in my opinion, these techniques are not idly pursued – they lead directly to free cash flow.”
Thanks to Ravi Ramakrishnan of HP for bringing it to my attention.
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