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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Granularity of locks - All Things.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Granularity of locks. By Werner Vogels on 31 August 2012 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am at funconf in Ireland. After a ride in a Delorean , a private train ride to Galway and a helicopter flight I am sitting outside a cottage on the island of Inishmore.

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Strategic Software Investing: Chase the Ends, Not the Means

The Agile Manager

When a company engages in custom software development, it is making an investment into itself. Company executives decide to convert capital into software because they believe that the resulting software will make the business better. How we make that investment decision is crucial to the success of the investment. Our first investment decision is based solely on an idea.