High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

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?

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). 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. Jake Archibald. ” Paul Calvano. Paul Calvano.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

JUNE 23, 2007

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

Technology 40

Technology Technology Energy Innovation 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Big companies] create all these systems and processes - and then end up with a very small percentage of people who are supposed to solve complex problems, while the other 98% of people just execute." Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. The modern industrial service economy has a few knowledge workers, and lots and lots of drones.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

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. Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019. The Death of Tick-Tock.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. So, software is a part of a greater whole, and typically multiple generations of technologies must coexist peacefully and purposefully to provide a viable service. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems.

Transportation 72

Transportation Java Programming Architecture 72

Adrian Cockcroft

AUGUST 23, 2018

I first became aware of Citroen’s as a child when my father pointed out a Citroen DS and told me about it’s advanced aerodynamics and technology, including the hydropneumatic suspension system. In the late 1960s Citroen bought Maserati and the Maserati Bora and Merak contain some Citroen technology.

Speed 40

Speed Engineering Automotive Systems 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

When it all comes together, the overall benefit of the resulting system can be incredible, such as an increase in life expectancy. 1 The same applies to an Information Technology organisation that is core to achieving alpha returns : it needs the management practices to match high-capability people. Consider Xerox PARC.

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 29, 2007

While the systems and solutions it produces might automate tasks of the business, not to mention allow for complex tasks not otherwise practical to be manually executed, the production of those systems is a people-centric process. This presents both a dilemma and a competitive opportunity for companies today.

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In addition to immediate data loss, FruitCo's change will destroy: App-like UI: Web apps are no longer going to look or work like apps in the task manager, systems settings, or any other surface. Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" A recitation of facts.

Storage 100

Storage Engineering Games Design 100

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

Rules are not a solid foundation for management or governance, particularly in technology. For one thing, they lag innovation, rather than lead it: prescriptive IT security guidelines circa 2007 were ignorant of the risks posed by social media. Maybe it would not.

Government 45

Government Best Practices Social Media Innovation 45

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

The technology doesn’t work out as planned. Common sense and statistical analysis both conclude that an optimized system is sensitive to the tiniest of variations. No matter how diligently we plan our work in IT, we are constantly under siege while “working our plan”. Developers come and go. Business people come and go.

Government 40

Government Efficiency Technology Technology 40

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 28, 2007

2 Given the significant contribution of technology to just about every business solution, IT risk management is a critical practice. It is subsequently highly likely that there will be new or emergent technologies applied, if not outright invented, over the course of delivery. But IT risk management practices are not mature.

Government 40

Government Retail Best Practices Technology 40

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

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. The new AWS EU (Stockholm) Region will have three Availability Zones and will be ready for customers to use in 2018.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The commodity model also ignores how advanced IT systems are delivered. Instead, business and IT collaborate in a succession of decisions as they navigate emerging business need whilst constantly integrating back to the tapestry of existing IT components and business systems. This requires a high degree of skill from those executing.

Airlines 40

Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these requirements in mind, and a willingness to question the status quo, a small group of distributed systems experts came together and designed a horizontally scalable distributed database that would scale out for both reads and writes to meet the long-term needs of our business. This was the genesis of the Amazon Dynamo database.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128