October 27, 2016 — Approaching e-commerce without giving consideration to Amazon is paramount to eating your lunch in the tiger cage at the local zoo. That’s not to say it can’t be done—because it can. You just need to be very clear about your strategic planning and what creates your competitive advantage. We will touch on these topics for store owners to help differentiate and win!

October 1, 2016 — Do you know Amazon Alexa? / What is Amazon Alexa?

Amazon Alexa is a speech recognition service provided by Amazon.
By combining various AWS applications, you can use it in many ways imaginable.
Our team developed the applications by combining Alexa and WP REST API to control WordPress without using any GUI.

In the session, we’ll introduce GUI-less application and how to combine speech recognition service + WP REST API and how to control WordPress without any GUI.

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July 31, 2016 — Amazon API Gateway & AWS Lambda で構築した外部 RESTful API と WordPress の連携について紹介します。WordPress サイトを構築する際には外部 API と連携してデータを取得してサイト上に表示するような要望も多いかと思います。たとえば、天気予報や地図情報などを表示するような場合です。これら情報が、既に API として提供されているものであれば良いのですが、たとえば独自データであれば新規に構築する必要があったり、複数 API を跨いでいるため一つに集約する必要があったりするかもしれません。こういった場合には、Amazon API Gateway & AWS Lambda を活用するとスピーディに外部 API を構築して WordPress に連携することができるようになります。本セッションでは、API の構築手順や連携方法などを説明いたします。

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November 13, 2015 — Quali servizi di un Cloud possiamo sfruttare per WordPress? Si analizzeranno quali sono i servizi in Cloud più utili per WordPress con un occhio ad opportunità e criticità (load balancing, database e memcache). Si parlerà di come gli asset statici possono essere salvati in un servizio di storage (Api Vs. s3fs) e distribuiti attraverso una CDN (CDN pull Vs. push). Per finire sarà proposto un caso di scuola su come trasformare l’interno WordPress in un servizio in Cloud scalabile.

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October 9, 2015 — What will happen to your website when it gets hit by a huge traffic spike? It will almost certainly go down if you are not prepared. Discover how to set up WordPress on Amazon cloud, covering vertical and horizontal scaling. Amazon offers many different components, but testing them can be time consuming and exhausting. Learn how to choose the right instances’ types and sizes, how to separate web server and database tier, and how to make them highly available with auto-scaling.

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