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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Brendan Gregg

JUNE 3, 2021

It was 2005, and I felt like I was in the eye of a hurricane. Another difference was that there were few roles in Australia for engineers in 2005, unlike the US. So back then in Australia you could find amazing engineers doing whatever roles were available. You can't make this stuff up. Yeah, sure."

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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2022

Compare that to the relatively robust period of 2005 , when real interest rate curves were positive. Demand is outstripping supply, and that’s driving up the prices of what is available. That said, tech is the driver of labor productivity, product reach and distribution, and a key source of corporate innovation.

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand. In the next few years, we should continued innovation from in-memory computing to help ecommerce and other applications maintain their competitive edge.

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ScaleOut Software

JUNE 22, 2020

It can also take advantage of the elastic computing resources available in cloud infrastructures to quickly and cost-effectively scale throughput to meet changes in demand. In the next few years, we should continued innovation from in-memory computing to help ecommerce and other applications maintain their competitive edge.

Ecommerce 52

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Brendan Gregg

MARCH 16, 2024

This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available." 2005-2023: The winter of broken profilers However, the change was then applied to x86-64 (64-bit) as well, which had sixteen registers and didn't benefit so much from a seventeenth.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 23, 2020

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Detailed query-level waits are available on demand via integrated Plan Explorer.

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