Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Classics of the genre include: Apple's just focused on performance! The Performance Argument. 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. Web Performance APIs.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Technocracy was, too: "best practice" was derived from people performing narrowly defined tasks in rigid processes that yielded poor quality products at a high cost. Frederick Taylor defined and measured performance down to the task level. Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. Bureaucracy was discredited.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

The goal is to find a set of the most promising candidates who should receive the resource in order to maximize the overall performance of the targeted group of customers. Moreover, gross margin is not the only performance metric that is important for retailers. The resource can be homogenous (i.e. Applications. Applications.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. Video Inspection Service (VIS): This service takes a mezzanine as the input and performs various inspections. This service takes a mezzanine as the input and performs analysis to understand the content complexity.

Processing 229

Processing Media Latency Innovation 229

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

This wording is intentional: how work is performed reduces the probability of failure. So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed. The Price of a Four Star Rating The Wall Street Journal, 6-7 October 2007.

Government 40

Government Retail Energy Code 40

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.

Government 49

Government Efficiency C++ Software 49

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. Even after gaining access, one needed to deal with the challenges of homogeneity across different assets in terms of decoding performance, size, metadata, and general formatting.

Media 290

Media Storage Infrastructure Systems 290

Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

He is brilliant at convincing the company to let him do what he wants, even when that ignores market demand or his own past performance. Other staff devise processes to work around Bob, reducing the company's efficiency. Harper Business, 2007. Bob bullies, humiliates, and oppresses individuals**. The No A **e Rule. Jacquet, J.

Engineering 111

Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. For Stratum, latency is a function of the time to perform the work plus the time to get computing resources. Our goals are to make Cosmos easier to use, more resilient, faster and more efficient.

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

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?

Airlines 40

Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

It provides guarantees for availability, performance and completeness for delivery of identified, regimented services or functionality. Being asked to do nothing more than assume risk for something such as availability or performance of technology is appealing from an IT perspective because it’s a space we know, or at least we think we know.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

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.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52