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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. It’s not just memorizing the syntactic details of some programming language, or the many functions in some API, but understanding and managing the complexity of the problem you’re trying to solve. Controlling complexity is.” That brings me to my main point.

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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. As time passed the number of developers more than tripled, the breadth and depth of our use cases expanded, and our scale increased more than tenfold, the monolithic architecture significantly slowed down the delivery of new features.

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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. Over time, costs for S3 and GCS became reasonable and with Egnyte’s storage plugin architecture, our customers can now bring in any storage backend of their choice. Offline access.

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

Build a more scalable, composable, and functional architecture for interconnecting systems and applications. Software today is not typically a single program—something that is executed by an operator or user, producing a result to that person—but rather a service : something that runs for the benefit of its consumers, a provider of value.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

Customer retention programs can require the identification of customers who are likely to stop the relationship with a retailer but can change their minds under the influence of incentives. This metric reveals customers with high revenue potential, hence it can be used in loyalty programs and usage expansion campaigns. Fisher, 2007.

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