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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

The shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs was supposed to give rise to networks of independent knowledge workers collaborating to achieve business outcomes. Microcomputers improved the efficiency of data collection and made it easy to consolidate operational data. What happened? First, it's worth looking at what didn't happen.

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10 Lessons from 10 Years of Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

The epoch of AWS is the launch of Amazon S3 on March 14, 2006, now almost 10 years ago. This was a lesson we had already learned from our experiences with Amazon retail, but it became even more important for AWS’s API-centric business. The importance of the network. APIs are forever.

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