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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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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

MongoDB started out in 2007 as 10gen, a New York-based company looking to create a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution. That early decision was notable because whereas the GPL is applied if derivative work is distributed, the AGPL license applies both for distributed work and whenever end users interact with a program over a network.

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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.” Others had already deployed the capital to build much of the infrastructure for ride-hailing—GPS satellites and GPS-enabled smartphones.

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Adrian Cockcroft

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Transforming enterprise integration with reactive streams

O'Reilly Software

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. The most common programming task in the world. Let’s dive into this concept for a bit.

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Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied

Alex Russell

The initial implementation was removed from Blink post-fork and re-implemented on new infrastructure several years later. Since 2007, support for these features has barely improved. Provides support for "unread counts", e.g. for email and chat programs. position: sticky. CSS color(). PWA Install Prompts.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Barry is a professional software developer who has nearly two decades of industry experience developing and supporting software and infrastructure. Rick is a senior developer programs engineer at Google, the host of “ The State of the Web ,” as well as the “steward” of HTTPArchive and Chrome UX Report.