O'Reilly

APRIL 23, 2024

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Social Media Google Internet Internet 111

O'Reilly

APRIL 30, 2024

Time and again, leading scientists, technologists, and philosophers have made spectacularly terrible guesses about the direction of innovation. We’ll see more innovation if emerging AI tools are accessible to everyone, such that a dispersed ecosystem of new firms, start-ups, and AI tools can arise. But not all rents are bad.

Social Media 91

Social Media Artificial Intelligence Innovation Logistics 91

Percona

MAY 9, 2023

When there’s an innovative way of solving a specific problem — with no alternatives on the market — vendor lock-in can seem more like a solution than a potential problem. Ask and dig about whether migrating to innovations and upgrades will be an issue. . * Offer good for the first month only.

Open Source 87

Open Source Database Innovation Cloud 87

Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Open Source. Of course, it doesn’t mean that JMeter became the best tool for every task, but its popularity, in addition to being an open source tool, definitely gets it high in the list of options to consider.

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Testing Open Source Testing Tools Performance Testing 243

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Containers are the key technical enablers for tremendously accelerated deployment and innovation cycles. This opens the door to auto-scalable applications, which effortlessly matches the demands of rapidly growing and varying user traffic. But first, some background. Why containers? What is Docker? What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes.

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Open Source Traffic DevOps Cloud 295

Dynatrace

MAY 23, 2022

In addition, as businesses of all kinds adopt cloud-native and open source technologies, their environments become more flexible. Above all, companies modernize and adopt a multicloud strategy to innovate, scale, and increase efficiency. Today, organizations can move faster and innovate more easily through software development.

Strategy 218

Strategy Innovation Cloud Serverless 218

The Netflix TechBlog

APRIL 29, 2019

We use and contribute to many open-source Python packages, some of which are mentioned below. We’ve had a number of successful Python open sources, including Security Monkey (our team’s most active open source project). If any of this interests you, check out the jobs site or find us at PyCon.

Open Source 279

Open Source Network Infrastructure Big Data 279

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 2, 2023

My talk was on Innovation and Tipping Points, the first half was based on some content I’ve given before on how to get out of the way of innovation by speeding up time to value or idea to implementation. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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Social Media Innovation Open Source Entertainment 98

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

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Open Source Metrics Google Java 177

Percona

JULY 17, 2023

A survey of 90,240 companies using MongoDB listed the leading uses as Technology and Services (23%), Computer Software (16%), and Internet (6%). Not really open source : Even the MongoDB Community version is not open source; it’s source-available and is under the SSPL license (introduced by MongoDB itself).

Open Source 75

Open Source Database Scalability Software 75

High Scalability

OCTOBER 24, 2022

We would still be building higher and higher on top of VMs because that's where platform innovation would have stopped evolving. We have several players like Cloudflare innovating to become alternative lower-cost cloud providers. Maybe start investing into open source alternatives rather than complaining they don't already exist?

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Cloud Hardware Infrastructure Innovation 187

Percona

JUNE 22, 2023

Database downtime can hurt or doom any company with anything to do with the internet. Flexibility : With open source databases, you have access to the source code, allowing you to modify and optimize the database to meet your specific high availability requirements.

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Availability Database Open Source Hardware 105

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2020

These are just a fraction of the technology buzzwords you’ll find as you Google your way around the internet. The OpenCensus project was made open source by Google back in 2018, based on Google’s Census library that was used internally for gathering traces and metrics from their distributed systems. Dynatrace news.

Open Source 130

Open Source Metrics Google Java 130

Tech News Gather

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The blockchain is an open-source ledger system, which means that no one person or entity has control over it. NFTs can be tracked and monitored by anyone with an internet connection, so it’s easier to learn about how the market is doing because there are fewer surprises when it comes time to sell or resell your art piece.

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Blockchain Open Source Internet Internet 52

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

And slow websites are, in a way, discrimination: The majority of the world’s population don’t have access to high-speed Internet or fast CPUs. Partytown is a lightweight open-source solution that reduces execution delays due to third-party JavaScript by offloading third-party scripts to web workers, which run in background threads.

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 82

Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

WebKit is an open-source web engine that allows Apple to enable improvements contributed by third parties. Apple's Open Source Claim #. The open source nature of WebKit is indisputable as a legal technicality. Competition at the frontier enables the market and competitive spirits to push innovation forward.

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Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 98

Enprowess

JANUARY 12, 2022

Internet of Things (IoT). Besides that, these apps do well in areas with a slow internet connection. So it is convenient for all to use irrespective of internet speed and it works offline using cached data. Technologies like Microsoft Bot framework, Facebook Bot Engine, and DailougeFlow open-source builds these bots.

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Blockchain IoT Development Serverless 59

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Promote feedback from individual contributors and give them time to create innovative prototypes and POCs. Sure, that’s the most fun and innovative part! I have an iPhone X as my phone, and my testing device.

Performance 237

Performance Speed Google Media 237

Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Sergey is an open source developer, tireless educator on performance topics, and author of many web performance-related tools, including ShowSlow , SVN Assets , drop-in.htaccess and more. Originally a punk hacker , Billy first worked as a web security researcher, innovating new ways to both attack and defend web applications.

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Performance Education Google Website 89

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London. Promote feedback from individual contributors and give them time to create innovative prototypes and POCs. Sure, that’s the most fun and innovative part! Your dev environment is not your user’s environment.

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Performance Speed Google Media 130

O'Reilly

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

16% of respondents working with AI are using open source models. Many of the new open source models are much smaller and not as resource intensive but still deliver good results (especially when trained for a specific application). Open source models are a large and diverse group.

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Open Source Artificial Intelligence Google Infrastructure 112

The Agile Manager

JANUARY 22, 2010

the simple "what if" forecasting that we can perform in an open-source spreadsheet today was a major breakthrough in productivity 30 years ago). The microcomputer industry was highly innovative in the 1980s. Having a microcomputer in the office was something of a status symbol, if a geeky one. And they made work fun.

Google 40

Google Hardware Education Operating System 40

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It was a battle of not only proprietary vs open source but also static vs dynamic. It took ideas from Nanoc and pushed them even further with two significant innovations: Front matter.

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Ecommerce Website Government Internet 140