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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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Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

The software that powers todayâ??s Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Amazon RDS currently supports SQL Server 2008 R2 and plans to add support for SQL Server 2012 later this year. Comments ().

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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.

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Rules Versus Principles

The Agile Manager

Because capital is globally mobile, markets must innovate to remain competitive. Financial markets are innovating at a fast clip. Principle-based regulation posits that compliance with best practices is the best way to facilitate innovation while retaining transparency. Rules can't be written as quickly as markets evolve.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

Understanding previous technological revolutions will focus your digital strategy and help you thrive through the most turbulent economic event of our lifetime. A period of frenzied growth is turning into a mass extinction event for those companies that do not learn how to connect business operations to software delivery.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

In particular, they cite the lack of breakthrough technologies - e.g, The productivity is there, and will intensify with technologies such as AI and ML; the instrumentation simply doesn't exist to measure it. In this definition, productivity through technology is a deflationary force that makes products more affordable.

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

Fast-forward 30 years, and website technology has changed significantly — we have images, stylesheets, JavaScript, streaming video, AJAX, animation, WebSockets, WebGL, rounded corners in CSS — the list goes on. MovableType was one of the first static site generators on the market, although that term wouldn’t become popular until 2008.

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