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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. OS X, which used to trumpet “It just works,” has evolved to “it used to just work”; the most user-centric Unix-like system ever built now staggers under the load of new and poorly thought-out features. Controlling complexity is.” I’m not the one to say.)

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The Netflix Cosmos Platform

The Netflix TechBlog

Background The Media Cloud Engineering and Encoding Technologies teams at Netflix jointly operate a system to process incoming media files from our partners and studios to make them playable on all devices. The first generation of this system went live with the streaming launch in 2007. Delivery?—?A

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

High Scalability

He and his colleagues spend their productive hours scaling large distributed file systems. 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. SOA architecture based on REST APIs. Java used to power core file system code.

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Home Screen Advantage

Alex Russell

In addition to immediate data loss, FruitCo's change will destroy: App-like UI: Web apps are no longer going to look or work like apps in the task manager, systems settings, or any other surface. Translation: "Why did you break functionality that has been a foundational part of iOS since 2007?" A recitation of facts.

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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. So, software is a part of a greater whole, and typically multiple generations of technologies must coexist peacefully and purposefully to provide a viable service. Welcome to a new world of data-driven systems.

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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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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. The abtest service should be used across your entire system, for all experiments that touch a customer. AB Testing?—?So So You Know What Really Works ??Castillo Castillo San Cristo?bal?,

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