O'Reilly

APRIL 4, 2024

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

Artificial Intelligence 61

Artificial Intelligence Open Source Innovation Transportation 61

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

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.

Social Media 98

Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. That’s why we had to mention Mina , senior front-end engineer at Slack, Sasstronaut , and a truly rare gem in technology. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 1, 2021

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007.

Serverless 228

Serverless Media Latency Social Media 228

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