The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2015

The fleet owners - firms like International Lease Finance - are asset-heavy companies that buy and insure aircraft from manufacturers (Boeing, Bombardier, Airbus) and lease them to airlines who operate them to deliver people and parcels. They will develop complex pricing structures, just as airlines have done to charge premiums for better seats and extra bags. Suppose for a minute that self-driving cars become commercially available.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

I just received a note from United Airlines that I had flown 1 million miles on their airline. All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. A Million Miles Away. By Werner Vogels on 10 September 2012 05:00 PM. Permalink. Comments ().

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DZone

MAY 20, 2019

Sometimes it can save lives as well: China Airlines plane crashed due to a software bug on April 26, 1994, which took 264 lives. We all know that testing your application is important, as it ensures security, customer satisfaction, and saves money in the long run.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JUNE 4, 2019

Resource allocation problems can be efficiently solved through a branch of mathematics called combinatorial optimization, used for example for airline scheduling or logistics problems. By Benoit Rostykus, Gabriel Hartmann Noisy Neighbors We’ve all had noisy neighbors at one point in our life.

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The Morning Paper

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

But hey, at least the airlines make sure you have your seatbelt fastened for taxi, take-off, and landing ;). Wireless attacks on aircraft instrument landing systems Sathaye et al., USENIX Security Symposium 2019.

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Testlodge

MARCH 28, 2018

For example, if your product is a communications platform for the airline industry being used 24/7 and highly depended upon, the ability to recover within seconds or minutes is paramount. Is your team prepared for when disaster strikes?

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O'Reilly Software

MARCH 28, 2018

He spoke of an airline that has microservices for travel services, customer profile data, flight information, and other elements of their workflow. How to enable non-programmer business users to create their own data applications.

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ScaleOut Software

JULY 27, 2018

Whether it’s ecommerce shopping carts, financial trading data, IoT telemetry, or airline reservations, these data sets need fast, reliable access for large, mission-critical workloads.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

Airline crew pairing and composition problem is an area of deep research. For instance, if one of the pilots get sick, the airline still has to run flight by allowing a replacement pilot to take over.

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Baron Schwartz

MARCH 8, 2019

Events such as airline flights, auto-added by GMail from flight confirmation receipts, are visible to you but invisible to others. Today’s blog post is about—you guessed it—more calendaring and scheduling stuff.

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Percona

JANUARY 17, 2019

I’m using the “Airlines On-Time Performance” database from [link] (You can find the scripts I used here: [link] ). Parallel query execution is my favorite, non-existent , feature in MySQL.

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

One story from the Middle East I particularly like is flydubai, the leading low-cost airline in the region. Today, I am excited to announce plans for Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring an infrastructure Region to the Middle East!

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All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Airlines or rail transport companies could also use this for their quality control by running an algorithm based on the image data of the freight; the algorithm would recognize damaged goods and automatically sort them out.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

During the 1950's and 60's, companies also pursued conglomerate strategies: bringing seemingly unrelated businesses under one roof, sometimes seeking synergies (as Sears did owning a retail merchandiser and retail brokerage - "buy your stocks where you buy your socks"), and sometimes not (as LTV did owning a steel company and an airline). As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Creating new behaviours is more disruptive than being the first to apply technologies established in one market segment into another: streaming video to personal technology on airplanes is interesting, and doubtless it will allow airlines to eliminate in-seat entertainment systems that add weight and burn jet fuel, but it brings established behaviours into a different context.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

Suppose that the operating company is in a firefight for market share, where the primary weapons are customer-facing technology (as is happening in retail, entertainment, and, to a lesser extent, airlines - all of which have capital intensive asset-cos side-by-side with cash generative op-cos.).

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

But usually, deals are acquisitions: competitors merge to gain more power over costs and prices (United Airlines merging with Continental); large firms acquire smaller ones to enhance their core (Yahoo has been on an acquisition tear in recent years), diversify their markets, or simply to prevent a firm from falling into the hands of competitors ( Microsoft's acquisition of Skype ). "It is hard not to be cynical about this.

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The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2011

Of course, many businesses are neither cyclical (most of the luxury sector seems immune to the fact that there is a recession) nor particularly seasonal (airlines spike with holidays and such, but revenues are consistent quarter-on-quarter). I’ve been asked by a number of people recently how we can reconcile Agile IT, which shuns long-range deterministic planning, with annual budget & planning cycles, which are dependent on it.

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The Agile Manager

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Airlines are pursuing new revenue streams with captive in-flight technology. The Financial Times recently ran analysis and guest op-eds that sought to explain value in and from IT. One went as far as to challenge whether the corporate CIO has a future. Each is a new take on an old theme, echoing one part of the contradiction that has riddled every business with a captive technology department: we want to minimize how much we spend on IT, and we want IT to be a source of innovation.

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The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

In one sense, labour is to the IT industry as jet fuel is to the airline industry: IT is beholden to its people, just as airplanes don’t fly without fuel. Just as jet fuel supply is secured and hedged by an airline, so must labour supply be strategically managed by IT. US based IT departments are facing turbulent times.

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