O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

Social Media 108

Social Media Google Internet Internet 108

Speed Curve

JUNE 14, 2021

My journey into performance started in the late 1990s, while I was working for an elearning provider and discovering the challenges of delivering rich content over the internet. We were already using both synthetic and network-based real user monitoring (RUM) tools to measure how fast our site was, so we knew we had room to improve.

Retail 52

Retail Internet Internet Education 52

All Things Distributed

JANUARY 19, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 18 January 2011 04:00 PM. A whole range of innovative new services, ranging from media conversion to geo-location-context services have been developed by our customers using this flexibility and are available in the AWS ecosystem. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

AWS 115

AWS Cloud Java Operating System 115

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

All Things Distributed

APRIL 4, 2017

As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. In 2011, AWS opened a Point of Presence (PoP) in Stockholm to enable customers to serve content to their end users with low latency. AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners in the Nordics help customers migrate to the cloud.

AWS 116

AWS Airlines Latency Games 116

All Things Distributed

APRIL 27, 2011

By Werner Vogels on 27 April 2011 12:51 AM. We use high-performance transactions systems, complex rendering and object caching, workflow and queuing systems, business intelligence and data analytics, machine learning and pattern recognition, neural networks and probabilistic decision making, and a wide variety of other techniques.

Technology 151

Technology Technology AWS Storage 151

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

For example, OWNERs and experts in video and audio codecs can agree to extensive changes in their domain but cannot green-light changes in areas such as layout, networking, storage, or JavaScript engines. Competition at the frontier enables the market and competitive spirits to push innovation forward.

Engineering 98

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98