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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

As an engineer on a browser team, I'm privy to the blow-by-blow of various performance projects, benchmark fire drills, and the ways performance marketing (deeply) impacts engineering priorities. With each team, benchmarks lost are understood as bugs. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. CSS Custom Paint.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

However, there are a number of other important applications: Manufacturer-sponsored discounts can fall into this category because a retailer is not concerned about the cost of the incentives (covered by the manufacturer), only about efficient targeting. Fisher, 2007. Khan and D. Jain, 2005. Levin, 2013. Marlin, 2004.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.