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Making the Internet faster at Netflix

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Yet I gave it a shot, and I joined a team of world-renowned experts in internet delivery. So I built the speed task called fast.com, which is one of the most popular internet testing services today powered by open connect CDN. And as of today, I’m a hands-on engineering leader. So like a third of the internet is there.

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Technical Health Isn’t Optional

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

The internet wouldn’t exist without open source. Chander Damodaran of Brillio noted that, “the culture of sharing solutions, frameworks, and industry-leading practices” has been a crucial part of Brillio’s journey. Similarly, Tim Hope said that open source is critical in building an engineering culture and developing systems.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

The Nature of Software “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson It’s May 27, 1997. The Internet has been open to public for six years. The implications were clear: Perhaps in the end the open-source culture will triumph not because cooperation is morally right….

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Why did file sharing drive so much startup innovation?

TechCrunch

To wit, one common theme that came from our recent profiles of Expensify and NS1 is the centrality of file sharing (or, illegal file sharing if you are on that side of the fence) and internet infrastructure in the origin stories of the two companies. 1 napkin and 22 lines of code, or how NS1 rewrote the rules of internet infrastructure.