All Things Distributed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

When a technology has its breakthrough, can often only be determined in hindsight. Answering these questions will be just as important as the effort to solve the technological challenges, and neither dogmas nor ideologies will help. In the past, AI technologies were so expensive that it was hardly worth it to use them.

Artificial Intelligence 149

Artificial Intelligence Transportation Education Airlines 149

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

ScaleOut Software

JULY 21, 2020

For more than fifteen years, ScaleOut StateServer® has demonstrated technology leadership as an in-memory data grid (IMDG) and distributed cache. Typical uses include storing session-state and ecommerce shopping carts, product descriptions, airline reservations, financial portfolios, news stories, online learning data, and many others.

Analytics 52

Analytics Airlines Cache Scalability 52

Smashing Magazine

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

of global emissions (similar to the airline industry), and rising. These numbers are based on first-page load — caching seems very efficient for subsequent page loads. We can see that some types of embeds are more efficient than others: Instagram embeds load asynchronously by default, so they don’t block the main thread.

Social Media 101

Social Media Media Website Airlines 101

The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

Sometimes it is divestiture or separation: sprawling firms that serve different buyers or markets don't achieve much in the way of operating efficiency, and a "conglomerate discount" priced into their equity means there is value that can be released by dividing a firm into multiple businesses. We need to combine systems, and do so quickly.

Airlines 40

Airlines Efficiency Systems Processing 40

The Agile Manager

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

The cost efficiencies achieved through global sourcing face a triple threat to their fundamentals: The USD has eroded in value relative to other currencies in the past 6 years 1 – this means the USD doesn’t buy as much global sourcing capacity as it did 6 years ago, particularly vis-à-vis its peer consumer currencies.

Airlines 40

Airlines Government Metrics Strategy 40

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 22, 2021

After several months of strict Covid quarantine gave product designer Ehsan Noursalehi a new perspective on our relationship with technology, he decided to convert his obervations and questions into an online micro book. That’s the number of actions a customer needs to complete to buy an American Airlines ticket. Why do we interface?

Airlines 128

Airlines Mobile Design Strategy 128

Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical. In contrast to this, numerous types of assistive technologies are designed to make plain text accessible to as wide a variety of people as possible.

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Website Energy Internet Internet 135

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2016

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 31, 2014

This final state is an efficient economic relationship for buyer and seller. It needs to be developed, and developing it requires a capability in technology (design, coding, testing, etc.) New technologies disrupt by creating new behaviours and expectations among its users. a single cost per employee).

Social Media 40

Social Media Entertainment Airlines Media 40

The Agile Manager

JULY 31, 2015

There isn't much you can do to squeeze operating cash flow efficiency from the asset-heavy business, aside from minimizing overhead costs associated with investing activity. But you can squeeze the operating company for efficiencies, reducing total labor costs with things such as customer self-service. The operating company is, though.

Airlines 40

Airlines Entertainment Retail Efficiency 40