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The Real Problem with Software Development

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One advantage of computers, of course, is that they don’t care about complexity. Software architecture is a distinct specialty that has only become more important over time. But that advantage is also a significant disadvantage. Over the years, we’ve gradually gotten better at managing complexity.

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A 5G future

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Those cloud providers will, of course, have to guarantee this data remains private–as private as it is when it lives on a personal disk drive or an office fileserver. We hope you’ll join us at our upcoming events: O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York , February 23-26, 2020.

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5 key areas for tech leaders to watch in 2020

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This year’s growth in Python usage was buoyed by its increasing popularity among data scientists and machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) engineers. Software architecture, infrastructure, and operations are each changing rapidly. Trends in software architecture, infrastructure, and operations.

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The death of Agile?

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(Scrum might have been…) Agile is about getting developers in touch with the people who are the actual users and customers, regularly and repeatedly, so that the project doesn’t inevitably wander off course and produce something (in the words of Douglas Adams) “almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.”