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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Software

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy 100
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Looking back at 10 years of compartmentalization at AWS

All Things Distributed

March 26, 2008 doesn't have any delicious desserts associated with it, but that's the day when we launched Availability Zones for Amazon EC2. Availability Zones draw a hard line around the scope and magnitude of those interruptions. We launched with three autonomous Availability Zones in our US East (N.

AWS 132
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The Innovator's Cunundrum

The Agile Manager

Plenty of people bet and lost - in many cases quite tragically - during the 1918 Russian revolution, the great depression that began in 1929, the 2008 financial crisis, as well as in many other transitions in between. Yet the availability of electronic vehicles for sale has far outstripped the demand for the vehicles themselves.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Now there’s a massive range of Jamstack CMSs available, which bring all the advantages of static sites while allowing non-technical folk to update content. MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008. Editing a blog post in MovableType 2.0 Templates.

Ecommerce 139
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Conserve or Invest?

The Agile Manager

Both the financial and real economies have suffered quite a few shocks in the last 20 years: the dot-com bubble bursting (2000); September 11 (2001); the Great Recession (2008); and today in 2020 the COVID-19 crisis is wreaking economic havoc. It was much different in 2008.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

Or would you rather be treated for all of these to a standard of care available in 2020? Labor participation in the United States took a direct hit in September, 2008, and hasn't recovered. Would you want to receive cardiac treatment at a 1970 standard, pulmonology treatment at a 1980 standard, or HIV treatment at a 1990 standard?

Energy 52
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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

This approach can be expressed in more formal way by the following equation: where is the data available for analysis, is the space of a retailer’s actions and decisions, is an econometric model defined as a function of actions and data, and is the optimal strategy. This framework resembles the approach suggested in [JK98].

Retail 152