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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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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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Transparent Huge Pages Refresher

Percona

The concept of HugePages in Linux has existed for many years, first introduced in 2007. In order to understand THP, we should first start with a brief description of Linux HugePages. By default, the majority of widely used Linux distributions employ a virtual memory page size of 4KB.

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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.” They used their funding to do serious research and development, to build factories, cars, batteries, rockets and satellites.

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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. Chai Atreya of Alteryx did an impressive live demo of using ChapGPT as a guide to developing some analysis in a Python notebook.