Maximizing Control: The Power of Owning Your Tech Stack
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Company owns full stack: 55+ business apps, 16 data centers, a global Zoho Acceleration Network with purpose-built PoPs, and custom hardware + a heavily patched Linux stack to cut latency and control failures. A suite of purpose-built databases (columnar, time-series, unified data model) and a unified filesystem power the apps; serverless Catalyst and Zoho Creator expose top layers to developers. Policy-wise there are zero third-party trackers, a ban on using customer data to train internal AI, and public-GPT integration for optional AI. 16 data centers custom databases (columnar, time-series) no user-data training for AI
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction to Zoho
- 2:13Privacy and data ownership
- 3:58Building own data centers
- 5:24Hardware and OS customization
- 6:50Custom databases and file system
- 8:38AI and microservices
- 10:24Benefits of owning the stack
- 11:54Developer platforms Catalyst
- 13:00Zoho Creator for custom apps
- 14:23Customer peace of mind
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