So there are a few parts to this. Raw distribution you've got stuff like Draft2Digital which can help you distribute to Amazon/B&N/Kobo/etc. Limited value outside B&N requires you to be in the US so they can help you get around that if you are non-US based. But they also give some tools to make things like putting links to the right store in the back of your book for each platform.
However doing any licensing stuff if say you want to pay to put quotes from book snippets/lines from poetry/etc into your book the way distrokid lets you license a cover, nothing that I know of handles that space. I don't know if there's enough of a market for it because it isn't nearly as good a business decision for a writer as doing a cover can be for a musician, so smart writers avoid it.
Createspace? It's an Amazon company but it gets you into lots of distribution channels, worldwide. Zero setup or recurring fee, but a percentage of royalties.
OCF is Interesting, I was at CES and there were so many stupid one off consumer IoT platforms there and then the OCF had a huge area and some cool demos showing some cool interoperability with a wide range of devices using a unified data model and api.
"Finally, at query time, we bring together the real-time views from the set database and the batch views from S3 to compute the result"
so how in the heck does this work? at query time you decide what file to get our of s3 (hwo do u decide this?), parse it, filter it, and merge with the results from the custom made Redis like real time database?
The files in S3 are pre-aggregated results keyed by how we fetch them (e.g. there will be a file containing all of the users active on a particular day). What you've described is a pretty accurate description of what happens :)
We'll be sharing more about our query architecture in the future as well as other parts of the stack that we haven't included here. The query layer is an impressive piece of architecture that handles fast access to multiple distributed data stores.
I love this release Google needed to take a direction there are so many use cases for this sort of micro proximity I cannot wait to see what folks can do without freaking people out over privacy..
I'm stopping my focus on clojure right away because go is trending!!!... lol
I've yet to see anything from go that makes it worth the investment for me in 2014..clojure solves all my needs and then some.. and there are oh so many needs..
https://guardtime.com/cybersecurity-platform https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/834.pdf
They seem to be used by the GE predix platform and it looks very similar to the concepts in this thread.
https://www.predix.io/services/service.html?id=1881
that looks licensed from Ericsson which licensed Guardtime.. haha
they even go so far as to provide a specialized and hardened hardware device to signing operations at scale.
too bad its proprietary!!
https://guardtime.com/cybersecurity-platform