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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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Evolving Regional Evacuation

The Netflix TechBlog

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.

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Customer Centricity at Amazon Web Services

All Things Distributed

In the 2013 Amazon Shareholder letter , Jeff Bezos spent time explaining the decision to pursue a customer-centric way in our business. AWS has built a reputation over the years for the breadth and depth of our services and the pace of our innovation with 280 features released in 2013.

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Autonomous Cloud Enablement aka Scaling NoOps via Self-Service

Dynatrace

I think the story not only impressed the audience because of our outfits (traditional Austrian Dirndl & Lederhosen), but because we were one of the few software companies that showed actionable results of a DevOps transformation that has been discussed in our industry since 2013 when Gene Kim released his famous The Phoenix Project.

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Expanding the AWS Cloud – Introducing the AWS Europe (Stockholm) Region

All Things Distributed

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. Winning in this race requires that we become much more customer oriented, much more efficient in all of our operations, and at the same time shift our culture towards more lean and experimental.

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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. The challenge at the time was to manage containers at scale in real-world production environments.

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Reactjs vs React Native – Differences, Advantages, and Disadvantages

Enprowess

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. Reactjs was used for the first time in the year 2013 by Facebook for web applications. React JS offers more time efficiency. React Native.

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