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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

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AI Has an Uber Problem

O'Reilly

As Bill Janeway noted in his critique of the capital-fueled bubbles that resulted from the ultra-low interest rates of the decade following the 2007–2009 financial crisis, “ capital is not a strategy.” Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Microservice + Workflow + Serverless We have found that the programming model of “ microservices that trigger workflows that orchestrate serverless functions ” to be a powerful paradigm. We plan to evolve the programming model to accommodate new use cases.

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What I learned at GlueCon 2023?—?Tipping Points and Generative AI

Adrian Cockcroft

One example is that Netflix launched it’s streaming service in 2007, just at the point when the cost of streaming a movie over the network (which was dropping fast) became less than the cost of shipping a DVD. We’re already seeing the beginning of this direction with conversational programming and operations tooling like DoTheThing.ai

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Should You Use ClickHouse as a Main Operational Database?

Percona

To simulate text messages I have used ~3 billion of reddit comments (10 years from 2007 to 2017), downloaded from pushshift.io. As a temporary workaround we can do something like this: SELECT count() FROM rc WHERE (created_utc > ( ( SELECT max(created_utc) FROM rc ) - ((60 * 60) * 24))) AND (subreddit = 'programming') ??count()??

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

He has a keen interest in web technologies, performance tuning, security, and the practical use of technology. Doug is a freelance mobile performance expert, a popular speaker – particularly on the topic of web tuning and image optimization – and the author of High Performance Android Apps. Doug Sillars. Doug Sillars.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

Egnyte is a secure Content Collaboration and Data Governance platform, founded in 2007 when Google drive wasn't born and AWS S3 was cost-prohibitive. In 2007, businesses had started to become more distributed; customers were using multiple devices to access their files and there was a need to make this experience as smooth as possible.