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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” These are all astonishing tools for making our limited capacity for attention more efficient.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B. Two particularly relevant patterns are Efficiency Enables Evolution and Higher Order Systems Create New Sources of Worth.

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006.

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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

IO River

Therefore, there might be cases where your system could experience a downtime during the migration process. For example, Akamai introduced ASI in 2005, which became the standard for building new websites. How does vendor lock-in occur? Akamai tried to convince many users to use this new framework. ‍‍Is Vendor Lock-in a Bad Thing?

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AWS EC2 Virtualization 2017: Introducing Nitro

Brendan Gregg

Paravirtualization**: The hypervisor provides efficient hypercalls, and the guest OS uses drivers and kernel modifications to call these hypercalls. It's amazing to recall that it was even possible to virtualize x86 before processors had hardware-assisted virtualization (Intel VT-x and AMD-V), which were added in 2005 and 2006.

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How to Avoid Vendor Lock In

IO River

Therefore, there might be cases where your system could experience a downtime during the migration process. Not only that, but there can be cases where a piece of your application could break during the migration process that could take a long time to get back running.‍How does vendor lock-in occur?

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Most of this article represents an overview of the results published by retailers and researchers who built practical decision making and optimization systems combining abstract economic models with data mining methods. The most typical use cases for this problem are recommender systems, personalized search results ranking, and targeted ads.

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