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A New Playbook for Diversified Companies
Author Amit Karna , Mona Schommer , Ulrich Pidun , Ansgar Richter
Scholars have argued for years that high levels of diversification harm company performance and value creation. But multi-business companies can do quite well. Those that thrive tend to do three things: They limit the number of business models in their portfolio an....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Author Mike Evans
ACCOUNTABILITY IS THE CATALYST THAT IGNITES: Accelerated Change, Robust Employee Engagement, Intensified Ownership, Relentless Perseverance, Impeccable Alignment, and propels individuals, teams and organizations to desired results. Accountability crumbles silos, bo....
Release Date 2017/02 -
AMP: Building Accelerated Mobile Pages
Author Ruadhan O'Donoghue
Engineer naturally lean web pages and leverage the latest web platform features to dramatically boost page speedAbout This BookThe first book for web developers that shows how to put AMP to workImprove your website's mobile experience and get more trafficPractical....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Author Daniel Berman , Reza Lavaryan , Tonino Jankov , Christopher Pitt , Bruno Skvorc
Performance simply matters. Technology may allow us to "go bigger", but maybe not necessarily be better when it comes to performance. Now is the time to utilize the amazing tools that are available for making websites faster, and to learn how to improve user experi....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Building Web Apps that Work Everywhere
Author Adam D. Scott
One of the joys of web development is the chance to use the latest technologies, but relying on new tools can have unintended consequences. This O’Reilly report explains how today’s massive, resource-heavy websites limit the options for millions of users, and shows....
Release Date 2016/08 -
Author Akanksha Jain , Calvin Lin , Natalie Enright Jerger
This book summarizes the landscape of cache replacement policies for CPU data caches.The emphasis is on algorithmic issues, so the authors start by defining a taxonomy that places previous policies into two broad categories, which they refer to as coarse-grained and fine-....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Author Andrew B. King
Remember when an optimized website was one that merely didn't take all day to appear? Times have changed. Today, website optimization can spell the difference between enterprise success and failure, and it takes a lot more know-how to achieve success.This book is ....
Release Date 2017/12 -
Author Sam Lee , Ivan Wei Kit
Department of Startup: Why Every Fortune 500 Should Have One aims to help CEOs, presidents, and human resource practitioners on how they can transform their large corporation to thrive in a fast, social media conscious, and unforgiving market a la startup.The ascen....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Author Jeffrey Bussgang
Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as models to help them adapt to today's dynamic innovation economy, while freshly minted MBAs see magic in founding something new. Yes, startups look magical, but they can al....
Release Date 2017/10 -
Fisher Investments on Emerging Markets
Author Austin B. Fraser , Fisher Investments
The fifth installment of the Fisher Investments On series is a comprehensive guide to understanding and analyzing investment opportunities within emerging markets. Growing in relative importance in recent years, emerging markets offer dynamic and unique opportunitie....
Release Date 2009/12 -
Fisher Investments on Financials
Author Jarred Kriz , Fisher Investments
The easy-to-use resource for anyone looking to learn more about the financial sector and how to make the most of itThe Fisher Investments On series is designed to provide individual investors, students, and aspiring investment professionals with the tools necessary ....
Release Date 2012/10 -
Fisher Investments on Materials
Author Brad Pyles , Andrew Teufel
The second installment of the Fisher Investments On series is a comprehensive guide to the Materials sector. Fisher Investments on Materials can benefit both new and seasoned investors, covering everything from Materials sector basics to specific indust....
Release Date 2009/02 -
Fisher Investments on Technology
Author Andrew Teufel , Brendan Erne , Fisher Investments
The sixth installment of the Fisher Investments On series is a comprehensive guide to understanding and analyzing investment opportunities within the Technology sector. Fisher Investments on Technology can help you quickly become familiar with this highly diversifie....
Release Date 2010/03 -
Author Andrew S. Teufel , Dan Sinton , Fisher Investments
The Fisher Investments On series is designed to provide individual investors, students, and aspiring investment professionals the tools necessary to understand and analyze investment opportunities—primarily for investing in global stocks.Each guide is an easily acce....
Release Date 2011/06 -
Author Ivan Curic , Maria Antonietta Perna , Craig Buckler , Bruno Skvorc
Performance simply matters. Technology may allow us to "go bigger", but maybe not necessarily be better when it comes to performance. Now is the time to utilize the amazing tools that are available for making websites faster, and to learn how to improve user experi....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Frontend Optimization Handbook
Author Larry P Haig
Application response time mostly occurs on the front end, where user devices process the information. With all of the mobile devices in use today, application developers walk a fine line between adding ever-greater content and dealing with performance bottlenecks i....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Author Shelley Powers
Want to build your own website—one that represents you, your cause, or your organization—without outside help? With this free guide, Shelley Powers quickly teaches you the basics: you’ll learn how to use HTML, CSS, and other web tools to create a simple site that w....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Getting Started with Varnish Cache
Author Thijs Feryn
How long does it take for your website to load? Web performance is just as critical for small and medium-sized websites as it is for massive websites that receive tons of hits. Before you pour money and time into rewriting your code or replacing your infrastructure....
Release Date 2017/03 -
Author Jeremy Keith
Boldly take your website where it’s never gone before: offline. Jeremy Keith introduces you to service workers (and the code behind them) to show you the latest strategies in offline pages. Learn the ins and outs of fetching and caching, enhance your website’s perf....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Author Maximiliano Firtman
In spite of the many performance optimization techniques in use today, web developers face significant loading issues, particularly on the mobile web. Fortunately, there’s much more you can do to increase your conversion rate in this constantly changing web landsca....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Mike McCall , Nick Doyle , Guy Podjarny , Yoav Weiss , Tim Kadlec , Colin Bendell
High-quality images have an amazing power of attraction. Just add some stunning photos and graphics to your website or app and watch your user engagement and conversion numbers climb. It can be tricky, but with this practical guide, you’ll master the many facets of....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Author Timothy Adam
In a world where most products are manufactured by machines, Etsy offers an online platform for makers of handmade products and crafts to market and sell their goods to a vast network of buyers who demand unique, genuine products. To date, the site has attracted ove....
Release Date 2011/03 -
Author Marius Sandbu
Leverage the features of NetScaler VPX™ to optimize and deploy responsive web services and applications on multiple virtualization platformsIn DetailWith a larger demand for responsive websites and availability of services, the IT domain is faced with an ever-rising....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Author Tom Barker
Up to this point, few software engineers and technical leaders have been prepared to meet the challenges of running web applications on a national or global scale. Sites that serve tens of millions of users and receive hundreds of millions of requests per day will ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Author Craig Buckler
Despite working on the web every day, few developers have a good word to say about the monster they've created. Achingly slow sites with annoying overlays, cookie agreements, instant notifications, and obtrusive ads litter the web landscape.While there may be some....
Release Date 2020/02 -
Load Balancing in Microsoft Azure
Author Arlan Nugara
With more and more companies moving on-prem applications to the cloud, software and cloud solution architects alike are busy investigating ways to improve load balancing, performance, security, and high availability for workloads. This practical report describes Mi....
Release Date 2019/07 -
Author Derek DeJonghe
Use of redundant servers has long been a solution for meeting sudden spikes in demand, machine failures, and outages. Cloud services greatly reduce the cost and hassle of provisioning redundant equipment and load balancers and give you the ability to deal with sepa....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author Paul D. Gessler , Christopher Papadopoulos , Vincent C. Prantil
In teaching an introduction to the finite element method at the undergraduate level, a prudent mix of theory and applications is often sought. In many cases, analysts use the finite element method to perform parametric studies on potential designs to size parts....
Release Date 2013/08