All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models. Comments ().

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The Netflix TechBlog

MAY 27, 2020

Whether it’s a compelling new series or an innovative product feature, we strive to provide a best-in-class service that people love and can enjoy anytime, anywhere. By being a separate and central team, we can more efficiently share learnings across the larger engineering organization and more easily consult with teams on an ad hoc basis.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 1, 2021

Increased time spent on innovation. This may result in unnecessary troubleshooting exercises and finger-pointing, not to mention wasted time and money. Those in the boardroom have just as much to gain from adopting APM solutions as those on the front lines of DevOps efforts. Better user experiences. Increasing revenue.

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Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs. In Wardley lingo, Google Maps is so efficient that it acts as a building block for higher-order systems (e.g.

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The Agile Manager

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

An economic model that assesses the extent to which a firm has market power would be substantially an academic exercise. These are real and significant business benefits: indeed, making competitors react by destabelising their agenda is of exponentially greater value than that of the innovations themselves.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2017

Centralized purchasing found efficiencies by standardizing roles and position specifications and granting preferred partner status to contract labor firms. In theory, standardized buying lifted the burden of negotiation from individual department managers and found cost efficiencies for the company. It's not a hotbed of innovation.

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Alex Russell

AUGUST 30, 2021

Large projects like browser engines also exercise governance through a hierarchy of "OWNER bits," which explicitly name engineers empowered to permit changes in a section of the codebase. But is HR cost efficiency for Apple the most important feature of a web engine? What isn't beneficial is unused diversity potential.

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Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

This exercise helps uncover blind spots and promotes a more comprehensive understanding of the situation. By considering the potential opportunity costs associated with different choices, you can prioritize effectively and allocate resources efficiently. Then, flip them around and examine the opposite viewpoint.

Education 52

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Tasktop

JUNE 25, 2020

I recall a question I posed to Nicole Bryan (now Tasktop’s Chief Product Officer) in those early days: If Tasktop provides the information highway for data to flow faster between collaborators, why don’t we also provide metrics and analytics on the speed and efficiency of their work? Her answer: It’s coming. . And it has.

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Metrics Education Innovation Software 52

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Platforms are conceptually popular with investors: in theory, a platform makes the mundane portions of a business efficient, scalable and adaptable, allowing a company to release the creative talents of its people to pursue growth and innovation. Employees will see replatforming as an exercise in re-creating software.

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The Agile Manager

MARCH 31, 2019

Isn't this the very existential threat that leaders of incumbent companies are supposed to be responding to through inventive and innovative means? The incumbent can reap the benefits of change without needing to lead the change, all through exercising its market power and access to finance. That seems like a paradox.

Strategy 40

Strategy FinTech Efficiency Technology 40

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. When working well — efficiently applying unobjectionable policy — store screening is invisible to everyone but developers. bank passwords).

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Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

We are constantly innovating on video encoding technology at Netflix, and we have a lot of content to encode. This is just one of many use cases that MezzFS supports, but all the use cases share a similar theme: stream the right bits of a remote object efficiently and expose those bits as a file on the filesystem.

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