Niko Papademetriou

That is a keen focus that we have.

We even have a vice president in our organization who literally has security and scalability in their title.

because of how deeply interwoven and intertwined scalability and security are.

I think those are areas we look at.

The last thing I'll say is we've made inroads into the restaurant industry with edge computing.

We have our cube series, the cube business edge.

series where we have three different flavors of an edge node that we bring cloud services from our AWS public cloud instance down into the restaurant.

And that's just another example of us seeing around the corner.

Look, cloud is an amazing thing.

Cloud only or too heavily tied to the cloud.

also creates bottlenecks.

It creates over-reliance on internet access, right?

Things like latency and packet loss and bandwidth all can have significant negative or adverse impacts on systems that are too heavily tied and architected to the cloud.

And so in the restaurant space, especially in the fast, casual and quick service arena that we work, if you have things like packet loss or you have serious drawback and you're holding data back because of bandwidth issues or Internet loss or things like that, that can spin out of control very quickly.

And we saw that and we saw that in the early days and we said, we've got to combat this problem.

Operators, restaurant operators need three, four, five, nine of uptime.

They cannot have something like cloud outage or internet outage affect their ability to transact in a restaurant because these are businesses that are super highly tied to cash flow.

And if you can't take a transaction for a few days, an otherwise healthy business in the restaurant space might quite literally go out of business if they can't conduct business for just a few days, maybe a week.

We've architected this edge first platform that again brings the most relevant and most valuable slice of our public cloud in AWS down into the four walls of the restaurant, which adds another layer of resiliency and stability and speed to the business.

There was a large cloud outage.