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The Real Problem with Software Development

O'Reilly

OS X, which used to trumpet “It just works,” has evolved to “it used to just work”; the most user-centric Unix-like system ever built now staggers under the load of new and poorly thought-out features. Most professional programmers work on large systems that can consist of thousands of functions and millions of lines of code.

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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. You need to be able to innovate fast enough to pivot or reinvent your business model and leverage the change.

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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. Instead of relational (SQL) databases defined primarily through a hierarchy of related sets via tables and columns, their non-relational structure used a system of collections and documents.

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Allez, rendez-vous à Paris – An AWS Region is coming to France!

All Things Distributed

Since we opened the first AWS EU Region in Ireland in November 2007, we have seen an acceleration of companies adopting the AWS Cloud. Our CDN and DNS network now has 18 points of presence across Europe, we have added a third AZ in Ireland, a second infrastructure region in Frankfurt and a third region in the UK (due in coming months).

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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

Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS). 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. MDN (Mozilla Developers Network) @MozDevNet.

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Rebuilding Netflix Video Processing Pipeline with Microservices

The Netflix TechBlog

The Netflix video processing pipeline went live with the launch of our streaming service in 2007. This architecture shift greatly reduced the processing latency and increased system resiliency. Over the years, the system expanded to support various new use cases. This introductory blog focuses on an overview of our journey.