Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Erin Harding Kraemer

Jeremy Boynes

Adam Lloyd Days

Brian Jaffery Tajuddin

Jeffrey P Bezos

Michael I Hyman

Ronald J Schoenbaum

Pavlo O Grinchenko

Carlos Alejandro Arguelles

Melissa Elaine Davis

Gavin Richard Jewell

Félix Joseph Étienne Pageau

Tyson Christopher Trautmann

Jeenandra Kumar Uttamchand

Manoj Srivastava

Praveen Kambam Sugavanam

Manigandan Natarajan

Anna Catherine Bell

Julian Sell

Srinivas Guduru

Jonathan Kupferman

Katherine L Corthell

Krista A Strickland

Robert K Maher

Optimization preferences are defined for optimizing execution of a distributed application. Candidate sets of application parameter values may be tested in test execution environments. Measures of performance for metrics of interest are determined based upon the execution of the distributed application using the candidate sets of application parameter values. Utility curves may be utilized to compute measures of effectiveness for metrics of interest. A multi-attribute rollup operation may utilize the computed measures of effectiveness and weights to compute a grand measure of merit (MOM) for the candidate sets of application parameter values. An optimized set of application parameter values may then be selected based upon the computed grand MOMs. The optimized set of application parameter values may be deployed to a production execution environment executing the distributed application. Production safe application parameters might also be identified and utilized to optimize execution of the distributed application in a production execution environment.

Optimization of application parameters

Described is a dynamic web platform configured to provide content rendered with one or more rendering systems. The rendering systems and the modules making up the rendering modules may interact with one another by way of declarative data. Administrators may configure the platform using the declarative data. The declarative data may express operational parameters, business rules, and so forth and may be modified while the platform is operating. The modules in the rendering system may be loosely bound, allowing for concurrent operations, dynamic changes to what content is to be rendered, and so forth.

Declarative language dynamic web platform

Disclosed are various embodiments for designing a network site. A grid layout component is provided in conjunction with a network page. The network page has at least one text element and at least one image element. The grid layout component has a plurality of cell configurations. Each cell configuration includes at least one text cell and at least one image cell. An indication is received from a user, indicating that one of the cell configurations is to be an initial cell configuration. In response to the user indication, the at least one text element and the at least one image element are displayed in a grid having the initial cell configuration. Layout code is generated which renders the grid, including the at least one text element and the at least one image element, within the network page for display by the browser.

Grid layout control for network site design

Computer-automated processes are disclosed for establishing verified communications channels with authors and other creators of works via communications with a trusted verifier entity. The verified communications channels may be used for various purposes, such as to seek authorization to make a book or other printed publication searchable on a public network.

Automated processes for seeking authorization to make printed publications searchable on a network

An electronic catalog system provides an interface for users to author and post content for viewing by other users. Users who are verified as creators of works represented in the electronic catalog (e.g., authors of books) are additionally given the option to post content that is displayed on the catalog pages of such works with attribution to the works' creators. In one embodiment, the system is capable of verifying a user's claim to be a creator of a particular work through automated communications with a third party verifier designated by the user. The third party verifier may, for example, be a publisher (in the case of books), a recording company (in the case of musical works), or a motion picture studio (in the case of movies).

Processes for verifying creators of works represented in an electronic catalog

An electronic catalog system provides an interface for users to author and post content for viewing by others. Users who are verified as creators of works represented in the electronic catalog (e.g., authors of books) are additionally granted the capability to post content that is displayed on the catalog pages of such works with attribution to the works' creators. In one embodiment, the system is capable of verifying a user's claim to be a creator of a particular work through automated communications with a third party verifier designated by the user. The third party verifier may, for example, be a publisher (in the case of books), a recording company (in the case of musical works), or a motion picture studio (in the case movies).

Processes for verifying, and accepting content postings from, creators of works represented in an electronic catalog

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Erin Harding Kraemer