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The Real Problem with Software Development

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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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Quantum computing’s potential is still far off, but quantum supremacy shows we’re on the right track

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It does not mean that cryptography is broken, or that we can achieve general artificial intelligence, or anything of the sort. SRE is a very different way of thinking about software development. Europe and the United States are different regions —and it isn’t just the metric system. Upcoming events.

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A 5G future

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I don’t need more bandwidth for video conferences or movies, but I would like to be able to download operating system updates and other large items in seconds rather than minutes. 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.