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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

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.

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What is Kubernetes?

Dynatrace

At its start in 2013, Docker was mainly used by developers as a sandbox for testing purposes. This virtualization makes it possible to efficiently deploy and securely run a container independently of the hosting infrastructure. Kubernetes design principles. What are containers, and why are they so hot? Declarative.

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Reactjs vs React Native – Differences, Advantages, and Disadvantages

Enprowess

React library is designed in a way that it can integrate with existing code or other libraries effortlessly. A community-enabled platform promotes innovation and makes Reactjs one of the most popular choices for developing dynamic websites and applications. So, you can focus on innovation. React JS offers more time efficiency.

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iOS Engine Choice In Depth

Alex Russell

From 2008 to 2013, the Chrome project was based on WebKit, and a growing team of Chrome engineers began to contribute heavily "upstream." Developers can provide feedback from using features and lobby other browsers to adopt (or re-design) them. But is HR cost efficiency for Apple the most important feature of a web engine?

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You say you want a devolution.

The Agile Manager

equity-funded tech start-up firms)." -- Me , September 2013 I wrote that nearly 5 years ago. The objective of a platform is not to build both big and small things more quickly or to build more efficiently, but to create more effectively. Does it include design and architecture? Can't prove the counterfactual.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

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. The design of the model heavily depends on the problem. Propensity to churn.

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Taking DynamoDB beyond Key-Value: Now with Faster, More Flexible, More Powerful Query Capabilities

All Things Distributed

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.

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