Comments on: Scalability Follow-Up — The challenge customers impose on innovation http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/04/11/scalability-follow-up-the-challenge-customers-impose-on-innovation/ Ramblings about online advertising, ad networks & other techie randomness Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Newspaper Classifed Ads http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/04/11/scalability-follow-up-the-challenge-customers-impose-on-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-139152 Newspaper Classifed Ads Fri, 04 Mar 2011 17:29:41 +0000 http://www.mikeonads.com/?p=545#comment-139152 Mike, great post. You’re really smart, man! One note as to the binary situation of agility vs. stability you describe in the first part. In recent years, a new methodology dubbed ‘continuous deployment’ has managed to find, I believe the golden path between the two. Mike, great post. You’re really smart, man!

One note as to the binary situation of agility vs. stability you describe in the first part. In recent years, a new methodology dubbed ‘continuous deployment’ has managed to find, I believe the golden path between the two.

]]> By: Liviu Tudor http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/04/11/scalability-follow-up-the-challenge-customers-impose-on-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-130395 Liviu Tudor Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:52:13 +0000 http://www.mikeonads.com/?p=545#comment-130395 Having worked with a couple of startups -- mostly in the ads space -- I cannot but say that you are so spot on! Especially the bit about testing the code directly in a production environment -- which I have seen so often. Funny enough, once things went wrong, indeed the recruitment agencies were called and Q/A positions started cropping up internally :) Having worked with a couple of startups — mostly in the ads space — I cannot but say that you are so spot on! Especially the bit about testing the code directly in a production environment — which I have seen so often. Funny enough, once things went wrong, indeed the recruitment agencies were called and Q/A positions started cropping up internally :)

]]> By: The crowded buy side | Shift Market http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/04/11/scalability-follow-up-the-challenge-customers-impose-on-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-128961 The crowded buy side | Shift Market Wed, 05 May 2010 17:59:47 +0000 http://www.mikeonads.com/?p=545#comment-128961 [...] volume. Data aggregation is also crucial and is very complex to manage on a large scale (see this post by Mike on Ads for more on [...] [...] volume. Data aggregation is also crucial and is very complex to manage on a large scale (see this post by Mike on Ads for more on [...]

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/04/11/scalability-follow-up-the-challenge-customers-impose-on-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-127989 Anonymous Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:02:10 +0000 http://www.mikeonads.com/?p=545#comment-127989 I happen to work at one of the companies your talking about in these 2 articles. You're spot on. The problem here is that when I sent these to people up the chain, the response I got was basically, "he doesn't know what he's talking about" which, of course, I expected. Too funny. Thanks for your insight. I appreciate getting affirmation of my opinions. I happen to work at one of the companies your talking about in these 2 articles. You’re spot on. The problem here is that when I sent these to people up the chain, the response I got was basically, “he doesn’t know what he’s talking about” which, of course, I expected. Too funny. Thanks for your insight. I appreciate getting affirmation of my opinions.

]]> By: Benny Radjasa http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/04/11/scalability-follow-up-the-challenge-customers-impose-on-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-127898 Benny Radjasa Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:51:14 +0000 http://www.mikeonads.com/?p=545#comment-127898 Good stuff Mike, I agree with you 100% We should clone you and evangelize the message. I get the shivers every time when I hear someone thing they could bootstrap an idea and produce scalable production system. But now I can refer them to your article :-) Good stuff Mike, I agree with you 100%

We should clone you and evangelize the message. I get the shivers every time when I hear someone thing they could bootstrap an idea and produce scalable production system. But now I can refer them to your article :-)

]]> By: Eran http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/04/11/scalability-follow-up-the-challenge-customers-impose-on-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-127895 Eran Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:33:58 +0000 http://www.mikeonads.com/?p=545#comment-127895 Mike, great post. You're on a roll, man! One note as to the binary situation of agility vs. stability you describe in the first part. In recent years, a new methodology dubbed 'continuous deployment' has managed to find, I believe the golden path between the two. Here are some posts on it: http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/continuous-deployment-5-eas.html http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/ Keep it coming, great read. Mike, great post. You’re on a roll, man!

One note as to the binary situation of agility vs. stability you describe in the first part. In recent years, a new methodology dubbed ‘continuous deployment’ has managed to find, I believe the golden path between the two.

Here are some posts on it:
http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/03/continuous-deployment-5-eas.html

http://timothyfitz.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/continuous-deployment-at-imvu-doing-the-impossible-fifty-times-a-day/

Keep it coming, great read.

]]> By: Meeker Updates Internet Report; Google Acquires Again; Twitter To See GoTo.com Offspring; ValueClick Looking At Acquisitions http://www.mikeonads.com/2010/04/11/scalability-follow-up-the-challenge-customers-impose-on-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-127885 Meeker Updates Internet Report; Google Acquires Again; Twitter To See GoTo.com Offspring; ValueClick Looking At Acquisitions Tue, 13 Apr 2010 04:05:18 +0000 http://www.mikeonads.com/?p=545#comment-127885 [...] Mike On Ads' Mike Nolet continues his exploration of ad serving with a post covering how innovation and scale concerns can come into play. Regarding innovation, Nolet writes, "Stability is the evil enemy of change. Change, sadly, is a requirement for innovation." Read more. [...] [...] Mike On Ads' Mike Nolet continues his exploration of ad serving with a post covering how innovation and scale concerns can come into play. Regarding innovation, Nolet writes, "Stability is the evil enemy of change. Change, sadly, is a requirement for innovation." Read more. [...]

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