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Happy 15th Birthday Amazon S3 -- the service that started it all

All Things Distributed

15 years is a long time in the world of technology. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support. Back then, Amazon was ~2% of its size today, and was growing faster than traditional IT systems could support.

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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management.

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Are Microservices to Ecosystems as Core Competencies were to Conglomerates?

The Agile Manager

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.