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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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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. released in March 2018 – so it doesn’t look like a lot is going on there. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no.

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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For November 30th, 2018

High Scalability

8 : successful Mars landings; $250,000 : proposed price for Facebook Graph API; 33 : countries where mobile internet is faster than WiFi; 1000s : Facebook cache poisoning; 8.2 I love seeing real innovation in the OS/VMM space, and a willingness to toss away legacy in order to vastly simplify the problem space. There's lots more.

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Improve Cloud Foundry observability with the immutable OneAgent BOSH release

Dynatrace

Dynatrace first shipped the OneAgent BOSH release in May 2018 using a lightweight approach for a minimal BOSH release. In the lightweight approach, BOSH downloads the latest OneAgent from the Internet. Today we’re happy to announce that OneAgent version 1.177 includes an immutable OneAgent BOSH release.

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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Dynatrace

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region will have three Availability Zones and be ready for customers for use in 2018. These companies include Cathay Pacific, CLSA, HSBC, Gibson Innovations, Kerry Logistics, Ocean Park, Next Digital, and TownGas. Over the past decade, we have seen tremendous growth at AWS.

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What is?OpenTelemetry??Everything you wanted to know

Dynatrace

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.