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.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

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. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software. Destiny awaits.

Innovation 40

Innovation Infrastructure Engineering Software 40

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. The closer one looks, the less a definition of "appiness" can be pinned down to specific technologies. At a technical level, this is not correct. bank passwords).

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

The Agile Manager

APRIL 28, 2008

Because capital is globally mobile, markets must innovate to remain competitive. Financial markets are innovating at a fast clip. Principle-based regulation posits that compliance with best practices is the best way to facilitate innovation while retaining transparency. Rules can't be written as quickly as markets evolve.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Innovation Mobile Systems 40

The Agile Manager

AUGUST 23, 2007

1 The same applies to an Information Technology organisation that is core to achieving alpha returns : it needs the management practices to match high-capability people. In the 1970s it spawned tremendous innovation in personal computing technology. As Thomas Teal wrote succinctly , “Good management works miracles.”

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

Tasktop

OCTOBER 30, 2019

He demonstrated how a more elegant functional design—combining immutability, purity, and duality of code and data—can save larger enterprises millions of dollars, as demonstrated by his previous work at Walmart. Auditors – a powerful asset to help you innovate . Just look at how ugly that service-oriented architecture is!”

DevOps 8

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics 8

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.

Internet 128

Internet Internet AWS Performance 128

All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. Video encoding is what MezzFS was originally designed for and remains one of its canonical use cases, so we’ll focus on video encoding to describe the problem that MezzFS solves. What problem are we solving?

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214