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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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Growing Pains: Learning From SysML v1

DZone

This produced the Systems Modeling Language, or SysML, built on top of the software-focused Unified Modeling Language (UML). SysML v1 received mixed reviews from the systems engineering community after it was released in 2007.

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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. Our mission is to help the world’s enterprises become software innovators, and on this day I could not be happier to reflect on the progress that we, and more importantly our customers, have made. . Today marks Tasktop’s 15th anniversary.

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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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AB Testing?—?So You Know What Really Works

Adrian Cockcroft

When I joined Netflix in 2007 I was managing a team that built the personalized home page for the DVD shipping web site. The first thing I… Continue reading on The Startup ».

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MSMQ is dead

Particular Software

So as a company dedicated to making our customers better at building, maintaining, and running complex software systems, it's basically impossible for us to recommend building a new system using MSMQ. Summary In 2007, the very first version of NServiceBus was a wrapper around MSMQ. So what do I need to do? and.NET Standard 2.0,

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Interacting with Open Source for HammerDB Code and Documentation

HammerDB

When you install it you accept the license agreement and once installed there is a file called LICENSE headed GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3, 29 June 2007 – so you know that the code is open source under GPLv3.