Tasktop

JANUARY 17, 2022

On January 12th, 2007, I defended my Ph.D. And a wonderful history it has been, with Gail continuing to be involved throughout the company’s history (listen to my podcast with her here ) and Rob playing as critical a role as ever as Tasktop’s VP of Product Strategy. Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary.

Innovation 105

Innovation DevOps Strategy Mobile 105

Tasktop

APRIL 2, 2020

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. A period of frenzied growth is turning into a mass extinction event for those companies that do not learn how to connect business operations to software delivery.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

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.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

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. Khan and D. Jain, 2005. Levin, 2013.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

Thus leadership and its derivative characteristics - notably innovation and responsiveness - are the result of calculated, not wanton, risk taking. Software development capacity, IT infrastructure, and software as a service are all examples of risk assumption. Look for another Capital Markets paper in July 2007.

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40