Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2021

Shippers, facing excessive capacity after the financial crisis of 2008, either went out of business, merged, or did deals to fill their ships to capacity. Optimization of the oceangoing containership fleet came at the cost of the efficiency of the rest of the supply chain into which it was integrated.

Transportation 52

Transportation Retail Traffic Efficiency 52

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. Ride sharing services have added driver/fleet capacity and accelerated speed-of-access for local transportation service.

Energy 52

Energy Government Entertainment Transportation 52

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

Intel server processors have historically delivered significantly better single-threaded CPU performance and lower power consumption than competing AMD processors since the Intel Nehalem microarchitecture in 2008.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46