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Official Intelligence

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Too Big to Communicate Around 2001, Amazon’s growth was outstripping the capability of its internal systems to keep up. How does Open Source software grow? Dependencies can be subtle, and are usually based on the system architecture. How did the Internet grow so large? The same way.

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Grown-Up Lean

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I then make a sustained argument from the Linux experience for the proposition that “Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”, suggest productive analogies with other self-correcting systems of selfish agents, and conclude with some exploration of the implications of this insight for the future of software.