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
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.
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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.
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 ().
All Things Distributed
MAY 15, 2014
Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes. As a result of affordable cloud resources we are already seeing centres of innovation and excellence, emerging in London, Berlin, Barcelona and Stockholm that are beginning to rival Silicon Valley.
All Things Distributed
OCTOBER 8, 2014
Let’s now look at the history behind the service and the context for new innovations that make me think that. In 2012, we launched Amazon DynamoDB, the successor to Amazon Dynamo. JSON has become the accepted medium for interchange between numerous Internet services. NoSQL and Scale. NoSQL and Flexibility: Document Model.
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.
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