The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

That is, a team can work in such a way that it is less likely to cause problems for itself, by e.g., writing unit tests, having continuous integration, developing to finely grained statements of business functionality, embedding QA in the development team, and so forth. Apocalypse No The Wall Street Journal, 27-28 October 2007.

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Percona

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The efficiency of database queries in MySQL can make all the difference in the performance and responsiveness of applications. While sorting may seem simple, it’s important to understand how to do it efficiently and effectively to ensure your queries are optimized and use better indexing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

We have been leveraging machine learning (ML) models to personalize artwork and to help our creatives create promotional content efficiently. In order to satisfy this requirement, ML practitioners had to develop bespoke triggering and orchestration components per pipeline.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 26, 2010

It's pretty well established that Agile and Lean IT are more operationally efficient than traditional IT. This operational efficiency generally translates into significant bottom line benefits. Our Lean IT organization faces a two-phase exposure similar to the credit crisis that struck Wall Street in 2007.

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Other staff devise processes to work around Bob, reducing the company's efficiency. Also see the talk [Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Rock Star Developers]. - **What about Bob as a manager?** Harper Business, 2007. . - Bob makes it difficult to hire other good staff (word gets around). - The No A **e Rule. Jacquet, J.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. When Reloaded was designed, we were a small team of developers operating a constrained compute cluster, and focused on one use case: the video/audio processing pipeline. The second generation added scale but was extremely difficult to operate. Delivery?—?A

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Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Apple forces developers of competing browsers to use their engine for all browsers on iOS , restricting their ability to deliver a better version of the web platform. They are, pound for pound, some of the best engine developers globally and genuinely want good things for the web. The Compatibility Tax.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

With trade growing, the value proposition of ever-larger ships was self evident in 2007: “On a per-container basis, a larger vessel cost less to build and operate than a smaller one, allowing the owner to undercut competitors’ cargo rates and still earn a healthy profit.” In other words it creates devastating Black Swans.”

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies. Why governance?

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Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

A retailer might be concerned with a variety of other metrics and this variety is so huge that there is a separate econometric discipline – propensity modeling [SG09, LE13] – that develops different models that predict customers’ future behaviors. The most important propensity models include: Predicted lifetime value.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

As a result, management concerns itself with cost minimization and efficiency of expenditure. Developers come and go. IT risks are much the same: we may aggressively manage scope or find some efficiency, but by and large these and many other factors will conspire to delay our projects. Robustness is the antithesis of efficiency.

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

This might be a data centre where hardware uptime is guaranteed to process transactions, a timesheeting capability that is available on-demand, or development of a custom application to analyse asset backed securities. Software development capacity, IT infrastructure, and software as a service are all examples of risk assumption.

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High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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.

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