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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. Though still not “profitable” by many benchmarks, it’s a lot closer to being so, perhaps in a big way.) 2017: MongoDB goes public, trading as MDB. Is MongoDB an open source NoSQL database?

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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. Media Session API.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

The godfather of the web performance movement, educator, speaker, the author of the most essential books in the industry, High Performance Websites (which was #1 in Amazon’s Computer and Internet bestsellers in 2007) and Even Faster Websites , and the co-author of Web Performance Daybook Volume 2. Rick Viscomi. Rick Viscomi.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns. Fisher, 2007.

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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.