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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

I would have expected more of a decay here, and Iā€™m surprised to see that so much code written back in 2006 is still alive in the code base ā€“ interesting! As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE ā€“ 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. kubernetes.

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History of IBM DB2

The Crazy Programmer

DB2 was originally exclusively available on IBM mainframes, but by the 1990s, it had migrated to a variety of other platforms, including LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows), i5/OS, and even PDAs. It shared-nothing architecture, which distributes a database across many, networked Db2 servers for scalability. Db2 Big SQL. DB2 Editions.

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The half-life of code & the ship of Theseus

Erik Bernhardsson

I would have expected more of a decay here, and Iā€™m surprised to see that so much code written back in 2006 is still alive in the code base ā€“ interesting! As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE ā€“ 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. kubernetes.

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Missing the point about microservices – it's about testing and deploying independently

Erik Bernhardsson

My first ā€œrealā€ company, Spotify, used a service-oriented architecture from scratch. I also spent some time at Google which used a service-oriented architecture. So basically since 2006 Iā€™ve been continuously working in what people now call a ā€œmicroservice architectureā€. I have a weird story.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

While we like to talk about how fast technology moves, internet time, and all that, in reality the last major new idea in software architecture was microservices, which dates to roughly 2015. Who wants to learn about design patterns or software architecture when some AI application may eventually do your high-level design?

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Many Customers Have Moved Their Oracle Workloads to the Public Cloud ā€“ Is the Time Right for Your Organization?

Apps Associates

Outcome highlights: A secure and scalable environment with improved architecture that provides their customers uninterrupted services. . Outcome highlights: Cost consolidation / reduction, business continuity, improved future state architecture with ability to leverage breadth of AWS services.

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Missing the point about microservices – it's about testing and deploying independently

Erik Bernhardsson

My first ā€œrealā€ company, Spotify, used a service-oriented architecture from scratch. I also spent some time at Google which used a service-oriented architecture. So basically since 2006 Iā€™ve been continuously working in what people now call a ā€œmicroservice architectureā€. I have a weird story.