Adrian Cockcroft
JANUARY 31, 2023
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.
O'Reilly
SEPTEMBER 12, 2023
That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. We’re seeing more code that’s written (at least in first draft) by generative AI tools, such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT (especially with Code Interpreter), and Google Codey. But that’s not really how the world works, not now, and not back in 2007.
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O'Reilly
APRIL 4, 2024
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.” Google raised only $36 million in venture capital on its way to dominance. Venture capitalists don’t have a crystal ball.
Percona
APRIL 12, 2023
This blog article traces key developments that coincided with MongoDB’s move away from open source software, and it examines how SSPL influence might have lured others in the same direction. MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution.
Rigor
SEPTEMBER 11, 2019
Rachel is the Editor-in-Chief of Smashing Magazine, a British web developer, writer, and speaker. Jake is a developer advocate at Google working with the Chrome team to develop and promote web standards and developer tools, as well as a contributor to the Chromium blog. Rachel Andrew. Jake Archibald. Rick Byers.
Speed Curve
DECEMBER 19, 2018
Understanding the importance of loading scripts asynchronously might help increase adoption of this critical performance improvement, so we're going to walk through the evolution of async script loading starting way back in 2007. This is likely when some dominant third party snippets (Google Analytics, Facebook, etc.)
High Scalability
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
samred : Jorgensen didn't mince words: he blamed the drop in the [EA] series' uptake by the developers' focus on a single-player campaign, as opposed to having a promised battle royale mode ready for fans in time for the game's launch. Newzoo : The games market took more than 35 years to grow to a $35 billion business in 2007.
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