Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Does Apple restrict, in any way, the ability of competing web browsers to deploy their own web browsing engines when running on Apple's operating system? Developers can provide feedback from using features and lobby other browsers to adopt (or re-design) them. House Antitrust Subcommittee includes their most specific claims: 4.

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The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Core systems are a complex web of integrated rules and functions spun over generations.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

I need calories after I run, a breakfast bar will do, I don't need a designer breakfast bar. Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. It's not a hotbed of innovation. In fact, it's usually bad news when it is a hotbed of innovation.

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

Replacing one-off paper-and-pen value stream mapping exercises, Tasktop Viz continuously measures the flow of work through the configured value streams. This is when the production capital of innovators starts taking over, and new lifestyles create demand for new products and services, new jobs and new skills.

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Alex Russell

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The idea that preventing browser innovation is pro-user is particularly risible, leading to entirely avoidable catch-22 scenarios for developers and users. New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM. Portable, safe apps returned massive benefits to users who no longer needed to LARP as systems administrators.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

A basic concept of wind energy systems, it is increasingly relevant in commercial building architecture: specifically, if wind velocity can be increased through building design, the potential power that a building can derive from wind energy is considerably greater. It is also an indicator of how effectively IT drives innovation.

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The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Indeterminate counterparty risk in a highly interconnected financial system means there’s a chance capital markets could get blindsided yet again, so hedge funds are front and centre of the regulatory debate. Because capital is globally mobile, markets must innovate to remain competitive.

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Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Scott Havens, Senior Director of Engineering at Mode Operandi, highlighted the benefits of event-based systems over legacy approaches, and how software architecture should be just as beautiful as the clothes on sale. Auditors – a powerful asset to help you innovate . Photo credit: @DOES_USA.

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The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

When it all comes together, the overall benefit of the resulting system can be incredible, such as an increase in life expectancy. In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. From those innovations came products, solutions, and even categories that didn’t previously exist. 4 White, Erin. “

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The system needs to be highly reliable because even just a little downtime can alienate loyal customers. The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs.

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All Things Distributed

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Today marks the 10 year anniversary of Amazon's Dynamo whitepaper , a milestone that made me reflect on how much innovation has occurred in the area of databases over the last decade and a good reminder on why taking a customer obsessed approach to solving hard problems can have lasting impact beyond your original expectations.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer. With online cluster resizing, our goal was to design a fully managed experience for cluster resharding, which would support both scale-out and scale-in and retain open source compatibility. The system is more robust.

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All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. Because of its focus on latency, the generic CPU yielded rather inefficient system for graphics processing.

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The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. What problem are we solving? Mount ranges of objects? — ? Regional caching? —?Netflix

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