Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

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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Adrian Cockcroft

MARCH 21, 2020

AB Testing?—?So 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. The first thing I found was that every user visible change we made went through an A/B test. The problem is that you have to do all the tests to find which third to keep.

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Rigor

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Rick is a software engineer on the Google Chrome team, “leading an effort to make the web just work for developers.” Patrick is a London-based software developer who specializes in web performance and who describes himself as enjoying “working the entire stack, back-end to front-end, CDN to server.” Rick Byers.

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Tasktop

JANUARY 18, 2022

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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The Agile Manager

MAY 31, 2012

The belief is that if we have a methodology - if we write unit tests and have our requirements written up as Stories and if we have a continuous build - we'll get better results. Because this team writes unit tests, they have higher code quality. Does unit testing lead to higher quality? Maybe it would. Maybe it would not.

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Percona

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Since our previous blog post, Adding Transparent Data Encryption to PostgreSQL with pg_tde: Please Test , it received new features such as TOAST data encryption and HashiCorp Vault support for key storage. Today, we’d like to share more details about the extension, including information about its internal architecture.

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The Agile Manager

OCTOBER 28, 2007

That is, a team can work in such a way that it is less likely to cause problems for itself, by e.g., writing unit tests, having continuous integration, developing to finely grained statements of business functionality, embedding QA in the development team, and so forth. Apocalypse No The Wall Street Journal, 27-28 October 2007.

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