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.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

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. Carlota Perez’s 2002 theories summarized in Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital. The pandemic affects everyone. Unfortunately, many more will not.

Government 109

Government Innovation Strategy Technology 109

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The success of our early results with the Dynamo database encouraged us to write Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper and share it at the 2007 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP conference), so that others in the industry could benefit.

Internet 130

Internet Internet AWS Performance 130

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

When working on a project for the Man Booker Prize in 2007 (now known as the Booker Prize), Howard saw first-hand how a heavy-load day could impact a website. In all cases, it’s critical for conversations to happen consistently between business teams and technology teams. Retrospectives. Lessons learned.

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Performance Traffic Website Performance Testing 68

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

In 2007, for example, the most common desktop resolution was 1024 × 768 pixels. When the technology of screens improved, manufacturers started to create higher-density screens. Pixels have been the most common unit of CSS, dating to the beginning of the web. As you can see, the connection between the real physical (i.e.

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Operating System Mobile Testing Systems 145

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

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.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2018

To wit: the ribbon interface that replaced the command menus in Microsoft Office 2007 was not met with enthusiasm. Inventing battery technologies and designing cars that are sufficiently different from the cars anybody else has made captures the imagination of financier and customer alike. For example, Tesla.

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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.

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Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. A 2007 column in the WSJ pointed out that management by objective and total quality management have been replaced by a new trend: management by data. The increasing disruption caused by technology in everything from retail to education to NGOs will defy command and control management.

Education 45

Education Best Practices Retail Network 45

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.

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Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

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. In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. The goal, the defined solution, the people, and the technologies constantly change.

Innovation 40

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Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

He trash-talks other technologies, companies, and people behind their backs, always finding something negative to say. He also attacks technologies that either don't leverage his own prior work, or don't conform to his own beliefs. Other engineers avoid new technologies, for fear of damaging ridicule from Bob. The No A **e Rule.

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Engineering Energy Technology Technology 111

Tim Kadlec

JUNE 25, 2009

The recent announcement is that Outlook 2010, like Outlook 2007, will use Microsoft Word for it’s rendering engine. Microsoft made great leaps forward with IE8, and just when I start thinking they deserve a nice pat on the back for embracing standards, they give me another reason to lose faith in them.

Engineering 40

Engineering Innovation Design Technology 40

O'Reilly Software

MARCH 7, 2018

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. They were too wrapped up in silly technology debates (e.g., People forgot what SOA stands for. what’s the best ESB?' Successful SOA (i.e.,

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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

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

JULY 29, 2007

structured credit products) will require business domain fluency as well as a high degree of technology skill. IBM Institute for Business Value, July 2007. The Wall Street Journal, 23 July 2007. Going back to our examples, the development of cutting-edge sell side products (e.g., 2 "Get Global. Get Specialized. Or Get Out."

Government 40

Government Open Source Latency Code 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 31, 2010

The technology doesn’t work out as planned. This is no easy task, particularly in a business culture rooted in fixed-budgets and rigid planning cycles, buyers of industrial IT expecting that technology labor is interchangeable, and so forth. Developers come and go. Business people come and go. Business needs change.

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

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" Competing engines had invested hundreds of engineer years into more advanced Site Isolation technology than Apple had, and the iOS browser engine monoculture has put users at risk over and over again as a result. so capable.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

This includes everything from knowing which tools and technology stacks are approved for use, to how to integrate with existing systems and components, to what non-functional requirements are most important, to how solutions pass certification. 2 Technology job growth and salaries are on the rise worldwide.

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