Tag: imported
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Link: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site
“According to research by Evercore Group L.L.C., Booking.com’s “testing drives conversions across the whole platform at 2–3 times the industry average.” That means massive increases to their revenue and bottom line.” How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site https://blog.usejournal.com/how-booking-com-a-b-tests-ten-novenonagintillion-versions-of-its-site-25fc3a9e875b via Instapaper Source: How Booking.com A/B Tests Ten Novenonagintillion Versions of its Site
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Link: Digital is helping Millennials shop around for auto coverage
That’s according to TransUnion’s “Auto Insurance Shopping Index,” which found that 21.7% of consumers shopped for personal auto insurance in 2018, versus 20% in 2017. With 44% of their cohorts shopping, Millennials and Generation Z consumers shopped for auto insurance than other ages. The reason? Digital distribution and marketing seem to be huge drivers to…
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Link: How the subscription paradigm flips the cloud financials market
In the subscription world, you must understand the lifetime relationship with the customer – all the upsells and renewals and how they all build on one another. You also must understand the revenue, billings, and cash derived from those-again, over the entire lifetime of the customer relationship. In an ASC-606 world, you must track all…
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Link: Google debuts migration tool for its Anthos hybrid cloud platform
Anthos applications are deployed in software containers, which are used to host the individual components of each app and make them easier to work with. The main benefit is that developers get to use a single set of tools to build and deploy their apps, and push through updates as necessary, no matter what infrastructure…
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Link: Starbucks teases coffee traceability app feature, compostable cup trial
This focus on the people behind the coffee beans could strengthen positive consumer sentiment around Starbucks’ brand and give it more of a human element as it continues to stretch its global reach. The move could also drive other coffee chains to make their supply chain journeys accessible to their customers. Investing in traceability isn’t…
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Link: Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions
That being said Powerpoint is fine if it is more information being disseminated than information being pondered, discussed and agreed upon. Source: Using 6 Page and 2 Page Documents To Make Organizational Decisions
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Link: Free Solo
Other women have rebelled in smaller, more quotidian ways. “They expect you to get married,” Whoopi Goldberg said in a recent interview in The New York Times Magazine. “Then one day I thought: I don’t have to do this.” Goldberg is an EGOT winner, remember. No woman should feel pressured to adhere to conservative standards,…
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Link: IT outages in the financial sector: Legacy banks playing tech catch-up risk more outages, UK MPs told
said 65 per cent of outages are in retail banks. She said the regulator received 853 notifications of outages in 2018/19 “that is a huge increase on the previous year”. However, she added some of those incidents were relatively minor, with part of the increase being due to a change in regulatory reporting requirements. Source:…
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Link: What I Learned on Medieval Twitter
Dorothy Kim has argued that Twitter activity, especially during conferences, enables scholars to amplify critical insights that would normally be relegated to the margins, circulating commentary as variously exegetical, irreverent, and dissident as the marginalia in medieval manuscripts: “Twitter can be radically serious in pushing against the ‘authority and control’ of the state, the scholarly-industrial…
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Link: Microsoft milestone: Tech giant’s cloud revenue now matches traditional products, analyst says
“We estimate that FY 4Q 19 was the first time MSFT generated as much revenue from running software in its own data centers, including cloud offerings like Azure and Office 365, as well as LinkedIn, Bing, GitHub and Xbox-Live, as it did from software licenses and upgrades, hardware and professional services,” according to the note…
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Link: Low Barr: Don’t give me that crap about security, just put the backdoors in the encryption, roars US Attorney General
Like the Obama administration before it, today’s White House has made backdooring encryption a priority, and legislation is reportedly being prepared to enforce it. Barr promised that FBI Director Chris Wray will give another speech on the topic later this week at the same conference. It looks like the encryption wars are back on. Source:…
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Link: Why are large companies so difficult to rescue (regarding bad internal technology)
In terms of the best integration architecture, what seems to me the only long-term solution is something like the unified log architecture that Jay Kreps wrote about back in 2013. All incoming writes need to go into a centralized log, such as Kafka, and then from there the various databases can pull what they need,…
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Link: We Need to Talk About Mental Health and Travel
Taking some time out of your day to reflect on the good things you have in your life can be very beneficial to your mental health. Sometimes when we get caught in our downward spiral of negative thinking, we forget that there are a lot of great things to be thankful for. Jotting down 10…
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Link: The Art of Aphorism
We don’t absorb aphorisms as esoteric wisdom; we test them against our own experience. The empirical test of the aphorism takes the form first of laughter and then of longevity, and its confidential tone makes it candid, not cynical. Source: The Art of Aphorism
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Link: AT&T’s ‘Public-Cloud First’ Proclamation a Stake in the Ground
For AT&T to now start the process of adopting the public cloud for what are admittedly “non-network applications” is a big move. It shows that even the most stodgy industry verticals are on board with moving to the public cloud. This will provide a significant new revenue stream for those cloud providers but at the…
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Going for that classic Oompa Loompa hair, lazy though, and with a Bavarian smell. From instagram
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Link: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide
Barcelona, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Chicago, Dublin, Hamburg, Helsinki, Kaohsiung, London, Los Angeles, Lyon, Madrid, Mexico City, Montreal, New Taipei City, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco Bay Area, São Paulo, Toronto, Vienna, Warsaw, and Zurich. Source: Google Maps now displays bike-sharing stations worldwide
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Link: Pivotal Build Service, Now Alpha, Assembles and Updates Containers in Kubernetes
The service provides the layer of automation and operational control enterprises need to utilize Cloud Native Buildpacks at scale. In particular, Build Service includes three key capabilities: automated image updates, image promotion, and build configurations. Source: Pivotal Build Service, Now Alpha, Assembles and Updates Containers in Kubernetes
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Link: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on transparency, developers, multi-cloud
The other thing that we’re working with most of our enterprise customers is, what is an exit strategy? What do I need to do, if one moment I decide that I would like to move over to another provider? That for any large enterprise is just good due diligence. If you start using a [SaaS…
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