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A survival strategy for the digital transformation

All Things Distributed

Companies that used to be dominant but stare at all the changes around them for too long in a state of paralysis can quickly end up in a struggle to survive – look no further than the entertainment and music industry where streaming services have eaten a significant piece of the cake of the hard-copy providers.

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Business observability and the travel and hospitality industry: a key to successful recovery

Dynatrace

From practical shifts – flexible cancellation policies, short-haul trips, and last-minute bookings – to forward-looking strategies – contactless communications, smart rooms, and robots – travel experiences are increasingly digital, and guest experience is becoming synonymous with digital experience.

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Business observability and the travel and hospitality industry: a key to successful recovery

Dynatrace

From practical shifts – flexible cancellation policies, short-haul trips, and last-minute bookings – to forward-looking strategies – contactless communications, smart rooms, and robots – travel experiences are increasingly digital, and guest experience is becoming synonymous with digital experience.

Airlines 188
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AI’s ‘SolarWinds Moment’ Will Occur; It’s Just a Matter of When

O'Reilly

Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) introduced a bill requiring “companies to assess the algorithms that process consumer data to examine their impact on accuracy, fairness, bias, discrimination, privacy, and security.” It’s important to note that each of the five principles addresses outcomes, rather than processes. A couple of years ago, U.S.

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A Day in the Life of an Experimentation and Causal Inference Scientist @ Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

We worked in different industries before joining Netflix, including tech, entertainment, retail, science policy, and research. I started working at a local payment processing company after graduation, where I built survival models to calculate lifetime value and experimented with them on our brand new big data stack.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Algorithms for search, recommendations, social media feeds, entertainment, and news became the foundation of an enormous new economy. It’s unclear whether this was a lack of imagination or a kind of “ strategy tax.” Attention allocation was outsourced to the machines.

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Migrating Critical Traffic At Scale with No Downtime?—?Part 2

The Netflix TechBlog

Behind these perfect moments of entertainment is a complex mechanism, with numerous gears and cogs working in harmony. Replay traffic testing gives us the initial foundation of validation, but as our migration process unfolds, we are met with the need for a carefully controlled migration process.

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