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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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2020

Algorithms are cheaper than humans and can be networked to perform complex collections of tasks at a speed, and subsequently a scale, that humans cannot achieve. There is a popular theory that technological innovation has become more important than capital in setting prevailing economic conditions.

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Deep learning: employs artificial neural networks that keep learning constantly by processing both negative and positive data. Artificial neural networks are made to mimic the human brain. The machine uses multiple artificial neural network layers to determine and output from many inputs provided.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2009, the purveyor of online videos migrated to AWS cloud infrastructure to deliver its entertainment to a growing audience. It created more uncertainty than the load balancing issues the entertainment firm saw in its data centers. Accelerates innovation. Any failures in the stack break the hypothesis. Blast radius.

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The Netflix TechBlog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Martin Tingley with Wenjing Zheng , Simon Ejdemyr , Stephanie Lane , and Colin McFarland This is the second post in a multi-part series on how Netflix uses A/B tests to inform decisions and continuously innovate on our products. See here for Part 1: Decision Making at Netflix. Figure 2: A simple A/B test.

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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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Tasktop

AUGUST 29, 2019

In a fast-paced and entertaining style, three luminaries of the DevOps movement deliver a story that anyone who works in IT will recognize. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses. The Phoenix Project. Author: Gene Kim. For more information, visit: [link].

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The Agile Manager

JUNE 30, 2019

It takes quite a while for a society to figure out the consequences of its innovations and the price it is paying directly or indirectly for the benefits it enjoys, hence regulation lags commercial innovation for a very long time.

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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. Williams book is an example of why the pop-sci genre became so popular in the first place—it’s well-written, well-researched, engaging and entertaining. This isn’t one of them.

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