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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications. Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!,

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Fisher, 2007. Billsus, 2007. Zapf, 2007. Khan and D. Jain, 2005.

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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.