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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

The answer can be found in the theory of economic rents, and in particular, in the kinds of rents that are collected by companies during different stages of the technology business cycle. Then the cycle begins again with a new class of competitors, who are forced to explore new, disruptive technologies that reset the entire market.

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What is web application security? Everything you need to know.

Dynatrace

Examples range from online banking to personal entertainment delivery and e-commerce. The Marriott data breach, in which one of its reservation systems had been compromised and hundreds of millions of customer records, including credit card and passport numbers, were stolen. Whether the process is exposed to the Internet.

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Expanding the Cloud – An AWS Region is coming to Hong Kong

All Things Distributed

The new region will give Hong Kong-based businesses, government organizations, non-profits, and global companies with customers in Hong Kong, the ability to leverage AWS technologies from data centers in Hong Kong. Then too, Internet service providers can shut down their services any time they feel threatened by the DDoS attacks.

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From Idea to Reality: The Journey of Developing a Smart Home App

Tech News Gather

Smart home automation is the process of automating your house by using Internet of Things (IoT) devices to manage your lights, appliances, HVAC, entertainment, security cameras, and alarms, and other sensors for things like water or gas leaks. How does a home automation system work? billion in 2021 to $163.24 in forecast period.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

Working from home is another tipping point, enabled by widespread deployment of laptops, home internet with capacity to run video (thanks in part to Netflix and other streaming services), and distributed productivity tools, then kicked over the line by the COVID-19 lockdown. by CtrlStack who were exhibiting at GlueCon.

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Best automation testing tools for web and mobile

Testsigma

per year; the internet users are increasing at an annual growth of 7½%, especially in the developing countries. You get the drift — more and more people are using smartphones every day for both essentials and entertainment. Apart from CI/CD integrations, Leapwork allows cross-technology automation like SAP, Salesforce, Citrix, etc.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

All Things Distributed

Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. During my academic career, I spent many years working on HPC technologies such as user-level networking interfaces, large scale high-speed interconnects, HPC software stacks, etc. Not just for HPC but for mission critical enterprise systems such as OLTP.

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