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

Dynatrace

MAY 31, 2021

The bold organizations were building distributed environments using service-oriented architecture (SOA) and trying to implement enterprise service busses (ESBs) to facilitate application-to-application communication. Containers and microservices: A revolution in the architecture of distributed systems. Distributed.

Virtualization 132

Virtualization DevOps Infrastructure Cloud 132

Enprowess

MAY 24, 2022

Component-Based Architecture Saves Time. Reactjs has introduced the concept of component-based architecture to the web development arena. This component-based architecture helps in collating an array of more extensive UI and converts them into an independent, self-sufficient micro-system. So, you can focus on innovation.

Mobile 52

Mobile Open Source Virtualization Speed 52

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. Brunamonti, 2013. Preslar, 2013. Cuellar, M. Duhigg, 2012. Deerwester, S.

Retail 152

Retail C++ Analytics Metrics 152

The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Niosha Behnam | Demand Engineering @ Netflix At Netflix we prioritize innovation and velocity in pursuit of the best experience for our 150+ million global customers. In 2013 we first developed our multi-regional availability strategy in response to a catalyst that led us to re-architect the way our service operates.

Traffic 190

Traffic Metrics Mobile Government 190

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2013

You saw the first iteration in April 2013 with the launch of Local Secondary Indexes (LSI). Global secondary indexes allow you to efficiently query over the whole DynamoDB table, not just within a partition as local secondary indexes, using any attributes (columns), even as the DynamoDB table horizontally scales to accommodate your needs.

Games 130

Games Scalability Database Retail 130

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. Shazam needed to handle an enormous increase in traffic for the duration of the Super Bowl and used DynamoDB as part of their architecture. This rapid adoption has allowed us to benefit from the scale economies inherent in our architecture. All Things Distributed. Comments ().

Ecommerce 139

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Hardware 139