• Amazon Web Services Blog: Use Amazon SQS to Build Self-Healing Applications
  “how to use Amazon Simple Queue Service to build self-healing applications. The basic idea is that you can create resilient and self-healing applications by implementing a Services Oriented Architecture that follows these three principles”
  (tags: amazon architecture aws ec2 sqs messaging development)
• The Amazon Tax – May 22, 2008 – The New York Sun
  “Why should the Bible be taxed or books for children learning to read be taxed, but a $100 silk necktie or bikini go tax-free?”
  (tags: amazon ecommerce NY tax retail)

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