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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

That statement nicely summarizes what makes software development difficult. If we’re serious about complexity, the complexity of building secure systems needs to be managed and controlled in step with the rest of the software, otherwise it’s going to add more vulnerabilities. Controlling complexity is.” That brings me to my main point.

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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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The Management Revolution that Never Happened

The Agile Manager

The shift from manufacturing jobs to service jobs was supposed to give rise to networks of independent knowledge workers collaborating to achieve business outcomes. Wall Street Journal, 24 December 2007. The "networked organization" functions because its members develop complex communication patterns. What happened?

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” One of the top players in web performance, Ilya is a web performance engineer at Google, co-chair of the W3C Web Performance Working Group , and author of High Performance Browser Networking. Rick Byers.

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Rules versus Results

The Agile Manager

Or, Because we ask users to review security policies and procedures at the time their network credentials expire, we have fewer security issues. It may be that our network has never been the target of a cyber attack. Does unit testing lead to higher quality? Does our insistence on policy result in tighter security?

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

In 2007, we opened our first AWS Region in Ireland and since then have opened additional regions, in Germany and the UK, with France still to come. As well as AWS Regions, we also have 24 AWS Edge Network Locations in Europe. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing.

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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. Cloud software will become more central to both social and professional connectivity.