All Things Distributed

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Whether it is gaming, adtech, travel, or retail—speed wins, it's simple. To give you some examples, I've been talking to a few gaming companies lately, and their conversations are about the need for speed and flexibility in scaling, both in and out. At Amazon, we have always focused on innovating on behalf of the customer.

Games 96

Games Retail Latency Education 96

Strategic Tech

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

This can become delicate when the mindsets of each teams are optimising for different things, most commonly speed vs reliability. The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. A good engineering organization moves at speed with high reliability.

Innovation 52

Innovation Speed Google Strategy 52

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . Poor code quality ends up drowning teams in re-work and taking resources away from innovation work. Speed without quality creates re-work that actually negatively impacts time-to-market. “In

Healthcare 52

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 52

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.

Government 40

Government Energy Innovation Strategy 40

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. This brings us to the final link in the chain of structural security mitigations: the speed of delivering updates to end-users.

Engineering 112

Engineering Open Source Website Operating System 112

Tasktop

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Get together once a year for a value stream mapping exercise, and you’ll emerge with a list of potential improvement hypotheses. . Poor code quality ends up drowning teams in re-work and taking resources away from innovation work. Speed without quality creates re-work that actually negatively impacts time-to-market. “In

Healthcare 40

Healthcare Retail Metrics Innovation 40

Abhishek Tiwari

JULY 6, 2023

This exercise helps uncover blind spots and promotes a more comprehensive understanding of the situation. It helps to break free from traditional thinking patterns and opens up avenues for innovative approaches. Challenge assumptions: Inversion encourages you to question your assumptions and beliefs.

Education 52

Education Strategy Innovation Virtualization 52

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. The world didn't yet have pervasive multi-process browser sandboxing, JS JITs , or metal-speed binary isolation. bank passwords).

Hardware 71

Hardware Mobile Programming Java 71

O'Reilly

APRIL 15, 2025

Some teams prefer to use an anonymized copy of production data, but either way, you need to ensure your test data has enough variety to exercise the scenarios you care about. While the upfront investment in evaluation feels slow, it prevents endless debates about whether changes help or hurt and dramatically speeds up innovation later.

Metrics 119

Metrics Testing Infrastructure Systems 119

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.

Metrics 52

Metrics Education Innovation Software 52