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

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

In February 2012 I began working for a new company. The speed at which new features got implemented, and importantly delivered to production for customers to benefit from, was as fast as humanly possible. Back in 2012, my CTO was passionate about “every developer pushing [meaningful] code to production on their first day”.

Development 98

Development Strategy Infrastructure Metrics 98

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

And we need to have strategies in place to understand and manage our pages. The median page today serves 25 images, compared to 42 images back in 2012. In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render. This trend carries over to mobile.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

With these goals in mind, In January, 2012 we launched Amazon DynamoDB , our cloud-based NoSQL database service designed from the ground up to support extreme scale, with the security, availability, performance and manageability needed to run mission-critical workloads. Manageable – The service would need to be easy to manage and operate.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

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). Now, I am advising people to strongly consider AMD for SQL Server workloads as the AMD EPYC "Rome" processors are released in Q3 of 2019.

Servers 46

Servers Hardware Architecture Retail 46

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

In 2012, Dave Cole published a post on How we build CMS free websites. Thanks to the build speed of static site generators like Hugo and modern Jamstack CMSs designed to handle vast amounts of content, even prominent blogs like Smashing Magazine , web.dev , and JFK International Air Terminal can take advantage of a Jamstack approach.

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Website Government Internet 139