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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Back in 1971, in a talk called “ Designing Organizations for an Information-rich World ,” political scientist Herbert Simon noted that the cost of information is not just money spent to acquire it but the time it takes to consume it. What is the limited resource that they control and monopolize? It’s not our data. It’s our attention.

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How digital experience monitoring helps deliver business observability

Dynatrace

Fast, consistent application delivery creates a positive user experience that can ultimately drive customer loyalty and improve business metrics like conversion rate and user retention. Expanding on the traditional observability pillars of metrics, logs, and traces, DEM collects user experience data to complete the end-to-end picture.

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OpenShift vs. Kubernetes: Understanding the differences

Dynatrace

IT teams can’t see into the internal state of Kubernetes containers , so they often collect a wide variety of telemetry data — such as logs, metrics, and distributed traces — to compensate for this lack of visibility. Its inherent complexity makes observability difficult — especially when used across highly distributed systems.

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

O'Reilly

The surest way to ignore such misalignment is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate and be designed for profit. User preferences were downgraded in algorithmic importance in favour of more profitable content.

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From Classroom to Telework: What I Learned About B2B Product Marketing As a Tasktop Intern … During a Pandemic

Tasktop

in Communications and Media, I always felt like I wanted to work in marketing, communications or related field. I’ve had multiple internships, mostly focused on digital marketing, social media and content creation. As a 22-year-old Romanian who moved to New York to pursue a B.A.

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Eye-Tracking In Mobile UX Research

Smashing Magazine

If you are designing an app or a website, you can test how easy and intuitive it is to complete a specific task, fill out a form, find certain information, or buy a product. Before those studies, web pages were designed as printed media, with columns and big blocks of text. Eye-Tracking Evolution. How Eye-Tracking Works.

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What Is PostgreSQL Used For?

Percona

In another survey, using multiple metrics for overall popularity, PostgreSQL ranks as the fourth most popular database management system ( DB-Engines, March 2023 ). Social media platforms: Companies use PostgreSQL to manage user profiles, posts, connections, and interactions. Again, more on extensions and configurations later.)