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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 3?—?eBay?—?2004 to 2007

Adrian Cockcroft

What Adrian Did Next — Part 3 — eBay — 2004 to 2007 I’d left Sun (part 2 in this series) , and had a few months off over the summer, so (of course) got married to @laurelco, bought a “fixer upper” house in the Los Gatos mountains, and worked on getting it tidied up. It was early 2007, and time to move on again.

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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. How do you think about complexity when writing or maintaining software that may outlive its developers? But that’s not really how the world works, not now, and not back in 2007. A few weeks ago, I saw a tweet that said “Writing code isn’t the problem.

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DevOps automation: From event-driven automation to answer-driven automation [with causal AI]

Dynatrace

The evolution of DevOps automation Since the concept of DevOps emerged around 2007 and 2008 in response to pain points with Agile development, DevOps automation has been continuously evolving. As a result, it saves critical developer time and expedites the mean time to resolution (MTTR).

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Happy 15th, Tasktop! Happy 5th, Tasktop Hub!

Tasktop

January 17, 2007: Dr. Mik Kersten, Dr. Gail Murphy and Robert Elves founded Tasktop. Just to put it in context, here are some other highlights from 2007: Apple iPhone was announced and launched. We focused on helping developers context switch less and drive productivity. We’ve had some laughs and a lot of fun getting here.

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Improving our video encodes for legacy devices

The Netflix TechBlog

we announced our intention to stream video over 13 years ago, in January 2007?—?and What we have improved on Keeping in mind our goal to maintain ubiquitous device support, we leveraged what we learned from innovations implemented during the development of newer encode families and have made a number of improvements to our H.264/AVC

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Tasktop Turns 15, Turning the Tide on More and More Transformations

Tasktop

On January 12th, 2007, I defended my Ph.D. thesis, which explored a new approach to focus and flow for developers. supervisor, and Rob Elves, a fellow developer, on the following Monday. Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary. The incorporation was official two days later and the rest is history.

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The Surprising Effectiveness of Non-Overlapping, Sensitivity-Based Performance Models

John McCalpin

The presentation discusses a family of simple performance models that I developed over the last 20 years — originally in support of processor and system design at SGI (1996-1999), IBM (1999-2005), and AMD (2006-2008), but more recently in support of system procurements at The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) (2009-present).