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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. March 2004: Autonomy acquires NativeMinds and Cardiff Software. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider.

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“Server Utilization” is a nonsense metric

ProdOps

In 2003 Google invented Borg, the precursor for Kubernetes, and in 2004 Amazon invented Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) a major service providing compute in Amazon Web Services (AWS). And one of the results was this document explaining how to reduce the fine-grained coupling between applications and hardware. But how to actually do it?

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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding

Netflix Tech

With the motion extension, it was accepted as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004. Google added decoding support on Android devices and Chrome browser and also released libraries that developers could add to their apps on other platforms, for example iOS. The webp format was introduced by Google around 2010.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. However, the open source world figured out a better way to develop software.

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Five World-Changing Software Innovations

LeanEssays

This led Chris Pinkham, head of Amazon’s global infrastructure, to propose developing a capability that would let teams manage their own infrastructure – a capability that might eventually be sold to outside companies. The software needed to detect and quickly recover from these “normal” hardware failures was perfected as the company grew.

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Friction

LeanEssays

Because these companies are creating a new end-to-end experience, they rarely leverage existing capabilities aimed at serving their market; they develop a “full stack” of new capabilities. In fact, when software development is done right, speed, quality and low cost are fully compatible. Fault tolerance is not a new concept.

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Beyond Hadoop

Kentik

But the current epoch of distributed computing is often traced to December of 2004, when Google researchers Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat presented a paper unveiling MapReduce. But what if you need fast answers to questions that can’t be completely defined in advance?