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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. If we’re serious about complexity, the complexity of building secure systems needs to be managed and controlled in step with the rest of the software, otherwise it’s going to add more vulnerabilities. Controlling complexity is.” That brings me to my main point.

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AB Testing?—?So You Know What Really Works

Adrian Cockcroft

When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. The first thing I… Continue reading on The Startup ».

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AB Testing?—?So You Know What Really Works

Adrian Cockcroft

picture by Adrian When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?, The first thing I found was that every user visible change we made went through an A/B test.

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Using the Transparent Data Encryption Extension PG_TDE With PostgreSQL

Percona

Today, we’d like to share more details about the extension, including information about its internal architecture. This is open source software, and the old adage about having many eyeballs on the code to ensure its quality is applicable here, as Percona wants your input. deb package, or as source code on github.

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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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Home Screen Advantage

Alex Russell

Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" The iOS system has traditionally provided support for Home Screen web apps by building directly on WebKit and its security architecture. This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you. It's ok to be livid.

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Is Intel Doomed in the Server CPU Space?

SQL Performance

From 2007 until 2016, Intel was able to successfully execute their Tick-Tock release strategy, where they would introduce a new processor microarchitecture roughly every two years (a Tock release). Intel officially moved on to what they call " Process- Architecture-Optimization (PAO) " in early 2016. So, what has changed my mind?

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