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

Adrian Cockcroft

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. To support our customers’ growth, their digital transformation, and to speed up their innovation and lower the cost of running their IT, we continue to build out additional European infrastructure.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Early years: Fueled by innovation and community-mindedness Initially, the lines weren’t so blurred, and certainly, they weren’t muddied. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. They came up with a horizontally scalable NoSQL database.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

The end of the Turning Point marks the start of the Deployment Period , when the production capital of that age’s innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills. . These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades.

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AB Testing?—?So You Know What Really Works

Adrian Cockcroft

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. The abtest service should be used across your entire system, for all experiments that touch a customer. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. It served as the foundation for numerous encoding innovations developed by our team.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

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.

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