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Happy 15th, Tasktop! Happy 5th, Tasktop Hub!

Tasktop

January 17, 2007: Dr. Mik Kersten, Dr. Gail Murphy and Robert Elves founded Tasktop. Just to put it in context, here are some other highlights from 2007: Apple iPhone was announced and launched. years old when Marc Andreessen announced that Software is Eating the World. In the following years: Tasktop was 4.5

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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. In the past year, all of the innovation that Tasktop has been creating for the past 15 years has been critical in turning the tide of digital transformations. Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary. thesis, which explored a new approach to focus and flow for developers.

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Is MongoDB Open Source? Is Planet Earth Flat?

Percona

Let’s start with this: MongoDB is accurately referred to as source-available software. Many open source proponents, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) , do not consider software under the SSPL to be open source. We agree with the OSI’s determination that any software under the SSPL cannot be open source.

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COVID-19 Triggered the Turning Point

Tasktop

A period of frenzied growth is turning into a mass extinction event for those companies that do not learn how to connect business operations to software delivery. Those who master digital business models and software at scale will thrive. These cycles and bubbles of innovation happen every several decades.

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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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Everyone a Beginner?

The Agile Manager

A development company is in the invention or innovation business. To wit: the ribbon interface that replaced the command menus in Microsoft Office 2007 was not met with enthusiasm. That's great for those of us in the business of software. There is a high tolerance for operational inconsistency from a development company.

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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). Since Intel had no viable competition from a performance perspective, they had little incentive to continue to innovate at the same pace.

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