article thumbnail

Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

article thumbnail

An Unbelievable Demo

Brendan Gregg

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. You can't make this stuff up. Yeah, sure."

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Credit Cycle Strikes Back

The Agile Manager

Compare that to the relatively robust period of 2005 , when real interest rate curves were positive. Demand is outstripping supply, and that’s driving up the prices of what is available. That said, tech is the driver of labor productivity, product reach and distribution, and a key source of corporate innovation.

article thumbnail

The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand. In the next few years, we should continued innovation from in-memory computing to help ecommerce and other applications maintain their competitive edge.

article thumbnail

The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand. In the next few years, we should continued innovation from in-memory computing to help ecommerce and other applications maintain their competitive edge.

article thumbnail

The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth.

Java 145
article thumbnail

SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

Servers 40