O'Reilly Software

OCTOBER 23, 2018

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. I'm offering an overview of my perspective on the field, which I hope is a unique and interesting take on it, in order to provide context for the work at hand: devising a winning technology strategy for your business.

Strategy 100

Strategy Architecture Technology Technology 100

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 106

Social Media Google Internet Internet 106

All Things Distributed

MAY 15, 2014

Cloud computing unlocks innovation within organisations of all types and sizes. As a member of the steering board of the ECP, and someone who has been working with the European Commission on their cloud strategy for many years, I am privileged to help contribute to the collaboration on how to promote and shape cloud computing in the region.

Cloud 123

Cloud Innovation AWS Government 123

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.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter. In 2012, Dave Cole published a post on How we build CMS free websites. By the end of 2008, Tom Preston-Werner announces Jekyll — a simple, blog-aware, static site generator. Blog aware. Create posts with Markdown files.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139

SQL Performance

JULY 16, 2019

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

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. Gallien, 2012. Duhigg, 2012. Zhang, 2012. Nakanishi, 2010.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152