O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Blockchains have a uniquely tumultuous early history for an enterprise technology—from a mysterious origin story, to a sensational first application in bitcoin, to a swift fall from a particularly frothy hype cycle. Blockchain technology provides the encrypted distributed ledger that made the first cryptocurrency, bitcoin, possible.

Blockchain 68

Blockchain IoT Logistics Internet 68

All Things Distributed

AUGUST 20, 2015

Modern applications need to quickly navigate connections in the physical world of people, cities, and public transit stations as well as the virtual world of search terms, social posts, and genetic code, for example. Like many AWS innovations, the desire to build a solution for a scalable graph database came from Amazon’s retail business.

Database 134

Database Logistics Availability Social Media 134

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

We also have a great deal of machine learning technology that can benefit machine scientists and developers working outside Amazon. They also started asking us to give them access to the technology that powers Alexa, so that they can add a conversational interface (using voice or text) to their mobile apps. Amazon Lex. Amazon Polly.

AWS 165

AWS Lambda Artificial Intelligence Mobile 165

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Example: Chatbots, Alexa, Siri Another application of NLP is in the software testing domain where applications are tested in a plain natural language without any coding. This technology has brought a revolution in the field of healthcare. But the developers have made it happen to a certain extent.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Healthcare Programming Logistics 52

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Check out her writing about business and technology on her own site at rachelandrew.co.uk , and follow her on Twitter @ rachelandrew , where she tweets about CSS, tech topics, and much more. Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications.

Performance 89

Performance Education Google Website 89

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 20, 2019

As Steve Jobs wisely said, Don’t Be Trapped by Dogma – Which is Living With the Results of Other People’s Thinking In my view, technology executives and engineering leaders are overly obsessed with the Spotify model. Specialisation could be around products, business process, or technologies. And there lies the problem. Certainly not.

Engineering 61

Engineering Retail Airlines Healthcare 61

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. As far back as the 19th century, industrial firms pursued vertical integration strategies.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Retail Social Media Airlines 40

The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2014

For example, an insurance company contracts with a technology consulting firm with deep insurance domain expertise to develop, maintain, and operate major software applications that run its core business. The primary labor market is less vulnerable to these forces. Alternatively, one firm's primary labor force may be another's secondary.

Software 49

Software Software Development Retail 49