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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

The Internet has been open to public for six years. The democratization of programming arrived with the public Internet in 1991, and within a decade it became clear that the old model for developing software was obsolete. Loosely coupled systems can be very robust. Consider the internet. Linux is six years old.

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Lean Software Development: The Backstory

LeanEssays

Charter a team of responsible experts led by an entrepreneurial system designer. Then the internet began to invade the world, and it eventually became the delivery mechanism for a large fraction of the software being developed today. In 2001 the Agile Manifesto (Beck et al., 2001) gave this new approach a name – “Agile.”

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Technology Trends for 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

We know that C++ dominates game programming, but we suspect that it’s also coming to dominate embedded systems, which is really just a more formal way to say “internet of things.” NoSQL is really more a movement than a technology —one that’s devoted to expanding the number of storage options for system designers.

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