All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013. We’ve reduced AWS prices 27 times since launching 7 years ago, added enterprise service support enhancements, and created innovative tools to help customers be more efficient.

AWS 134

AWS Energy Innovation Best Practices 134

Adrian Cockcroft

JANUARY 31, 2023

At the time eBay was one of the largest online businesses and was developing patterns that later became widely adopted. After a year or so, and a re-organization, eBay Research labs was formed by Eric Billingsley, and I joined to help recruit the team, including a good friend from Sun, Paul Strong , and build out the innovation programs.

Google 52

Google Transportation Programming Innovation 52

Rigor

JANUARY 13, 2020

These are the bestsellers in the web performance field, including the good old Speed Up Your Site (2003) by Andy King; Steve Souders’ Even Faster Web Sites (2009) ; Ilya Grigorik’s High Performance Browser Networking (2013) ; Tammy Everts’ Time is Money (2016) ; and a handful of more recent publications. Time is Money.

Performance 75

Performance Social Media Website Website Performance 75

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. If you are reading this you are likely a developer who knows about web and cares about performance. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

The Agile Manager

APRIL 30, 2020

Regardless how bad it gets, there is a candle of hope perpetually burning in the expectation is that free human societies are resilient and will respond and innovate in the face of challenge and will ultimately be more productive and more effective on the other side. Is it dependent on commodity ABAP developers?

Social Media 52

Social Media Innovation Internet Internet 52

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

It’s about creating awareness amongst both developers and non-developers. They can be run as a one-off or integrated in our development and deployment pipelines. If you are reading this you are likely a developer who knows about web and cares about performance. Performance is a feature and needs to be prioritized as such.

Performance 130

Performance Speed Google Media 130

The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2020

A small merchant wanting to do more business digitally didn't have the balance sheet to finance development of digital capabilities, let alone drive consumer behavior change to use those capabilities. They've had to scramble because small merchants have largely relied on legacy consumer buying habits.

Airlines 52

Airlines Government Hardware Technology 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Jake Archibald.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Highly Scalable

MARCH 10, 2015

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. At the same time, we avoid academic results with little or no empirical support.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 13, 2009

By Werner Vogels on 13 December 2009 03:00 PM. Spot Instances are an innovation that is made possible by the unparalleled economies of scale created by the tremendous growth of the AWS Infrastructure Services. Spot instances are a great innovation that, as far as I know, has no equivalent in the IT industry. Comments ().

Cloud 63

Cloud AWS Storage Innovation 63

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson 4 ⁄ 5 How We Got to Now builds off the ideas from Johnson’s Where Good Ideas Come From and further hammers home the point that good ideas do not come from lightbulb moments but from what Johnson calls the Hummingbird Effect.

Social Media 40

Social Media Education Design Technology 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Software development is the act of converting capital into intangible assets by way of human effort. If software development is going to be a core capability, the CFO needs to know how big that capability is going to be and what impact it's going to have on cash flow. Unfortunately, it isn’t as simple as that.

Government 45

Government Software Software Google 45

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Identity and Data Security for Web Development by Jonathan LeBlanc & Tim Messerschmidt 4 ⁄ 5 Pretty solid introduction to the topic. She doesn’t avoid discussing the difficulties faced in Africa, but she always follows that discussion with some examples of people innovating in incredibly creative ways to overcome these challenges.

Education 40

Education Games Design Entertainment 40

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

It’s not much of a surprise, then, that I read more books in 2017 than I have since I started keeping track back in 2009. I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. What I Read in 2009. Past years. What I Read in 2016.

BioTech 45

BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45