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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. It was early 2007, and time to move on again.

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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and In this blog post, we introduce recently implemented changes to our per-title encodes that are expected to lower the bitrate streamed by over 20%, on average, while maintaining a similar level of perceived quality.

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

In this blog, we will dive into the transformative power of answer-driven automation. The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. But it doesn’t stop there.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. Rob Hirschfeld of RackN had this perspective on the impact of AI on his domain of infrastructure automation.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

We’re equally convinced on both counts, but in this blog article, we’re focusing on why MongoDB is not open source. This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction.

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MSMQ is dead

Particular Software

MSMQ is a distributed or federated messaging system where every server hosts the queue infrastructure, and outgoing messages are sent locally before being delivered to their ultimate address. See our blog post What does idempotent mean? Summary In 2007, the very first version of NServiceBus was a wrapper around MSMQ.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

Microsoft will do well in the long run as B2B and work infrastructure becomes digital at an accelerated pace. It will provide the critical infrastructure needed for economic expansion in the Deployment Period. The post COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point appeared first on Tasktop Blog.