Economies of Focus: How Little Guys Compete in Big Spaces

Google Tech Talks August 2, 2007 ABSTRACT BitPusher is a small company that provides outsourced web operations and hosting for customer web applications. CEO Daniel Lieberman will discuss the philosophies, techniques and compromises that allow a very small team to deploy new, diverse applications rapidly while keeping their ops environment manageable. In particular, Daniel will describe how BitPusher achieves economies of scale in a diverse environment by choosing their focus areas carefully, making BitPusher efficient enough to complete with big IT consultancies and the services arms of telecom companies. Discussion: which of these "economies of focus" still apply at Google scale? Credits:...