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.
All Things Distributed
AUGUST 17, 2012
By Werner Vogels on 17 August 2012 07:00 PM. I am in São Paolo, Brazil for the 2012 AWS Latin America Summit and for The Next Web Latin America conference. Matt Welsh s thesis work at Berkeley was on building high-performance internet services. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems.
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All Things Distributed
MAY 8, 2012
By Werner Vogels on 08 May 2012 02:00 PM. s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Managing databases has been a stumbling block for many of our customers, shifting their time away from developing innovative applications to the â??muckâ?? Expanding the Cloud for Windows Developers. Comments ().
The Agile Manager
JANUARY 31, 2014
Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world. Software also makes its own opportunities, because it is inherently a business of invention and innovation. It's worth looking at why.
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 2, 2017
Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.
Smashing Magazine
AUGUST 20, 2021
I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. But, when it worked, it was magical.
All Things Distributed
DECEMBER 12, 2013
So when we launched in January 2012, we provided simple query functionality that used hash primary keys or composite primary keys (hash + range). Since then, we have been working on adding flexible querying. You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI).
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