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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

This book is about the network, from fundamental limitations that affect performance to major innovations for building even more powerful browser applications. Information Architecture. This book shares guidelines and innovative techniques that will help you plan and execute a comprehensive SEO strategy. Time is Money.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

I had also turned down a job offer at that time, and when I called back in 2004 they took me on as a Distinguished Engineer in their Operations Architecture team. We setup an innovation program to gather ideas from employees — who kept suggesting things that already existed — and ran advanced development projects.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications.

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The Amazing Evolution of In-Memory Computing

ScaleOut Software

Software platforms for distributed caching, such as ScaleOut StateServer ®, which was introduced in 2005, hide internal mechanisms for cluster membership, throughput scaling, and high availability to take full advantage of the cluster’s scalable memory without adding complexity to applications.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Jain, 2005. van Ryzin, 2005. Jannach, M. Felfernig, G. Friedrich, 2010.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

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.