TeamSPS

Moments from life at SPS Commerce and our #TeamSPS community. Highlights include company meetings announcing sponsorships, Tech Connect conferences, volunteer projects and social events like hockey games.

    Team meeting and tech walkthrough with one of #teamsps Kharkiv Dev teams.

    Now that is a beer!

    Good morning from Kharkiv!

    Snow-covered streets and bare trees fill a Kharkiv city block in winter, viewed from several stories up.

    Looking forward to awesome day with #TeamSPS in Kharkiv. 2nd double espresso and then heading out. ☕️

    Double espresso in a small white ceramic cup on a white saucer, sitting on a white tablecloth

    Morning reviewing three potential office spaces for #TeamSPS in Kharkiv.

    Desk for next couple of days in Kharkiv.

    MacBook Pro open to a Google Doc on a curved office desk with two external monitors, water bottles, a red mug, and a tablet nearby.

    All Hands for #TeamSPS Ukraine!

    Group of roughly 30 TeamSPS Ukraine employees gathered in an office for an all-hands meeting, seated and smiling toward the camera.

    Out for traditional Ukrainian dinner.

    Eight men seated around a long restaurant table set with white plates and wine glasses in a warmly lit Ukrainian dining room.
    • Final packing before heading off to Kharkiv, Ukraine to meet SPS Commerce #teamsps!
    • Next 20 hours: ✈️ MSP ➡️ AMS ➡️ KBP ➡️ HRK
    • Hoping protests in Ukraine don’t escalate to more violence.
    • Starting flight 1 of #TeamSPS trip to Kharkiv, Ukraine with Dan Megears and Kent Tangen! Getting a late start waiting for other planes.
    • Happy Birthday from Kyiv, Ukraine to my friends Anna Klombies and Jim Bernard!
    • Arrived in Kharkiv, Ukraine after long day of travels with Dan Megears, Kent Tangen, and Michael Davidovich!

    Great pic of Kent Tangen, Dan Megears, and Michael Davidovich boarding UAI flight in Kyiv.

    Passengers climbing boarding stairs onto a Ukraine International Airlines aircraft on the tarmac in Kyiv.

    AWS re:Invent - Day 2

    Great seats for day 2 AWS re:Invent keynote by Amazon CTO Werner Vogels.

    Large conference hall audience facing a stage with a massive screen displaying the AWS re:Invent logo in white and yellow text.

    The kerning on the ’ in the AWS re:Invent font could use some help.

    re:Play party invitation presented by Intel showing date Thursday 8-11pm in Hall D with games libations and live concert

    Amazon releases RDS for PostgreSQL today! Nice!

    Great to watch Werner giving AWS re:Invent keynote.

    Bald presenter in black t-shirt on a large conference stage with AWS re:Invent branding and circuit board design on the screen behind him, audience in foreground

    Wow. New i2 instances are crazy. New c3 instances = super computer on demand. EC2 spot market is revolutionary. Allows a model that has never been available before.

    Amazon Kinesis for managing streaming data. This looks very interesting. I think Amazon Kinesis just revamped a project #TeamSPS is starting right now. Awesome. This Kinesis demo has awesome visuals. AWS Kinesis looks huge.

    Werner Vogels sporting Red Hot Chili Peppers shirt now. Nirvana this morning. My guess is for tonight shirt? Foo Fighters.

    Attending the Kinesis introduction session at AWS re:Invent. Kinesis for stock market data seems like such an awesome fit. I’m guessing Stephen Orban and Dow Jones are already testing. 😀 Kinesis streams != Queues.

    Saying goodbye to AWS re:Invent and heading home. Really happy I came. Fun things ahead for #TeamSPS!

    AWS re:Invent - Day 1

    Ready for AWS re:Invent!

    AWS re:Invent conference badge for Jamie Thingelstad from SPS Commerce, held by a hand against a dark background.

    Perhaps the largest dining hall ever. AWS re:Invent

    Panoramic view of a vast convention center dining hall filled with hundreds of attendees seated at round tables with red chairs.

    Great seat for AWS re:Invent keynote.

    Large conference hall packed with hundreds of seated attendees facing two large screens showing the AWS re:Invent logo and a live tweet display

    Rob Krystyniak, @maas_8128,@zwingocom, @LukeSamaha, @scottbjer, and @pixelsnbits 👍 #TeamSPS ready for AWS re:Invent keynote!

    Group of six colleagues wearing conference lanyards seated in rows at an AWS re:Invent keynote hall, smiling at the camera

    “we are finally data center free!” quote from AWS re:Invent

    9,000 attendees from 57 countries. AWS re:Invent

    Amazon Workspaces. Huh.

    Great to see former colleagues at Dow Jones getting highlighted at AWS re:Invent! Congrats all!

    Amazon AppStream looks interesting.

    Tradeworx segment of #awsreinvent keynote is mind blowing.

    Terabyte of data added a day to S3.

    This graph shows the power of AWS.

    Conference presentation slide showing a graph of 1780000 AWS core hours with a 952000 peak, scaling more than 200 percent month-over-month, then archived to Glacier, with silhouetted audience in

    Attending Big Data: State of the Union session by Paul Duffy at AWS re:Invent.

    Morning keynote at AWS re:Invent was great. Hit right topics. Expanded thinking.

    Crap. Phone is at 12% battery already! Argh.

    Love the Amazon Public Datasets and Big Open Data effort. Great stuff.

    You could make a lot of $$$ selling precharged battery packs for phones at #awsreinvent.

    I don’t know what’s more impressive: AWS scaling or the dining service feeding 9,000 people.

    Pro tip for those in #awsreinvent dining hangar and trying to find people. The pillars have numbers.

    At session about Amazon Redshift at #awsreinvent with Rob Krystyniak.

    Going to Netflix Development Patterns for Rapid Iteration, Scale, Performance & Availability session at AWS re:Invent next.

    Someone should make a twitter client optimized for conferences.

    Netflix red, black and blue systems concept is very smart. Did something similar at Dow Jones but no blue concept.

    I think it might finally be time to move all my personal web stuff to AWS.

    Guys in suit coats playing ping pong at #awsreinvent Dev Lounge.

    Bald man in a suit playing ping-pong inside a large conference hall with a Developer Lounge glass enclosure and AWS Support signs visible behind him.

    Fun running into @jondahl at AWS re:Invent!

    Fun to see some new Road Sign Math geeks after #TeamSPS meeting yesterday. 😀

    Presenting at #TeamSPS meeting today! Crew filing in!

    Archie Black kicking off #teamsps meeting.

    Say Hi to #TeamSPS!

    TeamSPS Platform 2013

    Everything set for #TeamSPS Platform offsite!

    Nice — #TeamSPS Platform assembled!

    Peter Zaballos introducing Tyler Hamilton at #TeamSPS Platform event.

    Tyler Hamilton addressing #TeamSPS Platform event.

    NO COFFEE! OMG! #teamsps

    Chuck Mallott taking the stage to discuss UX design at #TeamSPS Platform event!

    Chuck Mallott explaining UX.

    Chuck Mallott you should do that UXD presentation at next Minnebar event.

    Luke Samaha presenting on the power of our network! #TeamSPS Platform

    Luke Samaha throwing down serious math. #TeamSPS

    Excited to get #TeamSPS together for SPS Commerce Platform offsite tomorrow! It’s going to be great!

    Materials are ready for SPS Commerce #TeamSPS Platform offsite tomorrow! See you all tomorrow!

    Got my internal-only #TeamSPS CTO blog going tonight. Yet another use of WordPress.

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