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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. The maturing of various AI technologies has also hit some tipping points and is evolving extremely quickly week by week.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

If you have been paying attention to the technology press over the past 12-18 months, you may have noticed a rather large number of negative stories about Intel's processor business. This made it easier for database professionals to make the case for a hardware upgrade, and made the typical upgrade more worthwhile.

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

High Scalability

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. 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. Java used to power core file system code. What is your system used for?

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Strategic IT Does More than Assume Technology Risk, it Mitigates Business Risk

The Agile Manager

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. play with shiny new toys) without taking us out of our comfort zone (the technology space versus the business space).

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Nordic-based businesses, government organisations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in the Nordics, the ability to leverage the AWS technology infrastructure from data centers in Sweden. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing.

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