The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Buying became an exercise in sourcing for the lowest unit cost any vendor was willing to supply for a particular skill-set. The people I need to build long-lived products on my-business-as-a-platform-as-a-service using emerging technologies don't fit any definition of standard procurement. It's not a hotbed of innovation.

Innovation 40

Innovation Energy Serverless Hardware 40

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

Dynatrace

MAY 15, 2020

By virtue of the incredible volume, quality, scope (we actually go far beyond just application monitoring) and granularity of the data the platform provides, our customers have at their fingertips unparalleled insights about their systems, users, and so much more. On further examination you discover an abnormal system process has initiated.

Government 225

Government DevOps Infrastructure Network 225

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.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Innovation Mobile Systems 40

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. 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.

Innovation 40

Innovation Technology Technology Latency 40

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.

DevOps 8

DevOps Education Innovation Metrics 8

Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Practitioners use APM to ensure system availability, optimize service performance and response times, and improve user experiences. All these terms refer to related technology and practices. Even a conflict with the operating system or the specific device being used to access the app can degrade an application’s performance.

Monitoring 148

Monitoring Mobile Social Media Artificial Intelligence 148

Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 4, 2018

I love the way he manages to wrangle disparate topics across science and history to show how much of innovation and advancement is non-linear. It’s fascinating to read about the different ways our technology-reliant world is vulnerable to attacks. The book sets out to do the same thing and does a pretty good job.

BioTech 45

BioTech Social Media Entertainment Media 45

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

Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

We, at Tasktop, had the knowledge, experience and technology to help them learn to do that. . Replacing one-off paper-and-pen value stream mapping exercises, Tasktop Viz continuously measures the flow of work through the configured value streams. While our technology is great, we never intended to license our products and walk away.

Metrics 52

Metrics Education Innovation Software 52

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. New low-end devices are 4-to-8 core, 2GHz systems with 2GiB of RAM.

Hardware 64

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 64

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.

AWS 136

AWS Latency Programming Architecture 136

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? Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large

Media 214

Media Storage Processing Cache 214