YAML won configuration by making structure look like notes
YAML beat angle brackets for config by using indentation, colons and dashes people already understood.
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1,000 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDWumart cut inventory by making stores give up their back rooms
Wumart used AI ordering and daily delivery to trade static store inventory for faster moving goods.
Read the caseWoolworths built a supermarket where bees were the shoppers
Woolworths turned supermarket touchpoints into an educational bee habitat and made food origins visible.
Read the caseWise made cross-border banking feel local by issuing local account details
TransferWise's Borderless account gave SMEs local account numbers in major markets instead of forcing a bank account in each country.
Read the caseWeb Push escaped app-store silos by making sender identity standard
VAPID let web apps send browser push messages without a Google account, giving Chrome, Firefox and Safari one standards path.
Read the caseWebVTT made web captions a text file browsers could own
WebVTT won browser subtitles by pairing a readable .vtt file with HTML's native track element and cue API.
Read the caseWell-Known URIs gave every website one discovery shelf
RFC 8615 made /.well-known/ the registered place where protocols can find site-wide metadata without colliding.
Read the caseWeb App Manifest made websites install like apps with one JSON file
The Web App Manifest won the installable-web slot by putting icons, launch URL and display mode in one JSON file.
Read the caseWBSEDCL modernized meters, SCADA and ERP before asking its grid to carry more
West Bengal's utility used smart meters, automation and IT backbone work to make distribution upgrades operationally useful.
Read the caseWARC saved the web by storing crawl history as records
WARC made web archives durable by concatenating request, response, metadata and revisit records into one standard stream.
Read the caseWAPP let small utilities buy tomorrow's cheaper power next door
West Africa's power-pool buildout connected surplus hydropower to fuel-dependent utilities and prepared a day-ahead market.
Read the caseWalmart let online shoppers reserve first and pay cash in store
Walmart opened e-commerce to cash customers by turning every store register into the payment step.
Read the caseWAI-ARIA made dynamic web apps accessible by adding semantics as attributes
ARIA let custom web widgets expose roles, states and properties to assistive tech without replacing HTML.
Read the caseViola-Jones made face detection fast by rejecting easy negatives first
Viola and Jones combined integral images, AdaBoost feature selection, and a classifier cascade to scan faces at 15 frames per second.
Read the caseVinFast financed buses and chargers as one electric-mobility system
ADB's US$135 million package backed both Viet Nam's first e-bus fleet and its first national charging network, avoiding a chicken-and-egg rollout.
Read the caseVerizon optimized technician home bases instead of just routing trucks
Verizon used mixed-integer optimization to decide where work centers and technicians should sit before daily dispatch began.
Read the caseVietnam paid rural water builders only after schemes stayed usable
Vietnam's first water PforR made communes earn funding by hitting verified service, sanitation and sustainability gates.
Read the caseUSPS made mail visible by merging sort codes into one barcode
The Intelligent Mail barcode folded address, tracking and service data into one code so letters could be sorted and measured.
Read the caseUS WEST planned fiber rings with a multi-year integer program
US WEST turned metro fiber expansion from local engineering judgment into least-cost plans across a 14-state territory.
Read the caseUSB HID made odd input devices work by describing themselves
USB HID avoided a driver per mouse or keyboard by making each device ship a tiny report descriptor.
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