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David Patterson Biography

The Crazy Programmer

David was the top fundraiser from 2006 to 2012. At Google, he was a remarkable Software Engineer. David’s main areas of investigation are as under: Parallel computing Computer architecture Distributed computing Workload Embedded system. David’s work dealt with software engineering.

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Friction

LeanEssays

Amazon built its cloud with the same philosophy – they knew that at the scale they intended to pursue, everything would fail sooner rather than later, so automated failure detection and recovery had to be designed into the system.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.

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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. Manage product development using the principles of cadence, flow, and pull.