“The preponderance of drugs in the U.S. is consumed by an older population, whose habits change slowly or not at all. Accordingly, it’s likely that Amazon’s online pharmacy will not significantly impact the existing drug industry…. Here’s why: Americans currently spend $450 billion a year on drugs. Walmart is the fourth-largest pharmacy in the U.S., with sales of $21 billion, or 4.6% of the company’s total sales. Let’s say that over the next five years Amazon gets to Walmart’s sales level of $21 billion.

“The preponderance of drugs in the U.S. is consumed by an older population, whose habits change slowly or not at all. Accordingly, it’s likely that Amazon’s online pharmacy will not significantly impact the existing drug industry…. Here’s why: Americans currently spend $450 billion a year on drugs. Walmart is the fourth-largest pharmacy in the U.S., with sales of $21 billion, or 4.6% of the company’s total sales. Let’s say that over the next five years Amazon gets to Walmart’s sales level of $21 billion.

“And one of the ways you make certain that you don’t have bad processes eat up good peoples' ideas is you make certain that you remove the bad processes and organize for success." Original source: Media Availability with Secretary Mattis at DIUx, transcript

“And one of the ways you make certain that you don’t have bad processes eat up good peoples' ideas is you make certain that you remove the bad processes and organize for success." Original source: Media Availability with Secretary Mattis at DIUx, transcript

‘“There is no doubt in my mind that DIUx will not only continue to exist, it will actually — it will grow in its influence and its impact on the Department of Defense,” Mattis said in a press conference.' Original source: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit

‘“There is no doubt in my mind that DIUx will not only continue to exist, it will actually — it will grow in its influence and its impact on the Department of Defense,” Mattis said in a press conference.' Original source: ‘No longer an experiment’ — DIUx becomes DIU, permanent Pentagon unit

“In a high level, projects are local optimization efforts. We get a group of people who create new (or improve existing) functionality for our customers and then we pass that onto a team that has no idea why the change was made and how this change was solutioned/implemented. Very often, the quality is low and this Maintenance team needs to deal with the issues. This creates a culture of tolerating low quality, accepting that maintenance/operation teams will deal with problems created by delivery teams, not allowing delivery teams to learn from their mistakes and hence keep repeating them, allow budgets to be set without proper data, treat people like easy-to-replace objects, and so on.

“In a high level, projects are local optimization efforts. We get a group of people who create new (or improve existing) functionality for our customers and then we pass that onto a team that has no idea why the change was made and how this change was solutioned/implemented. Very often, the quality is low and this Maintenance team needs to deal with the issues. This creates a culture of tolerating low quality, accepting that maintenance/operation teams will deal with problems created by delivery teams, not allowing delivery teams to learn from their mistakes and hence keep repeating them, allow budgets to be set without proper data, treat people like easy-to-replace objects, and so on.

When Coté says he doesn’t know how numbers work, he actually means it. To help out, he talks with Rachel Stephens, from RedMonk, who not only explains ratios, but also finance numbers. Also see full show notes.

“The modules in question are used to help create managed services on top of Redis, namely RediSearch, Redis Graph, ReJSON, Redis-ML, and Rebloom. Licensed under Apache 2.0 modified with Commons Clause, these can still be freely used in any application, though they can’t be used in a commercial Redis-based offering. For that, you will have to call Redis Labs and work out a paid licensing arrangement.” Original source: Redis Pulls Back on Open Source Licensing, Citing Stingy Cloud Services