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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 I’m surprised to see that so much code written back in 2006 is still alive in the code base – interesting! As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 635,229 commits as of today. Linux also clearly exhibits more of a linear growth pattern. kubernetes.

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CentOS Rebellion Against Red Hat Gains Momentum

DevOps.com

Two insurgent efforts to make sure the CentOS distribution remains viable have been launched following a decision by Red Hat to no longer invest in that fork of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) distribution. Launched in 2006, CentOS is widely employed by IT organizations that need an open source distribution of Linux to, for […].

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10 IT skills where expertise pays the most

CIO

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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 I’m surprised to see that so much code written back in 2006 is still alive in the code base – interesting! As a final test I decided to run it over the Linux kernel which is HUGE – 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

So basically since 2006 I’ve been continuously working in what people now call a “microservice architecture”. The Linux kernel shows that you can write highly modular code, all inside a single process (actually, the Torvalds-Tennenbaum flame war from 1992 is still highly relevant). I used to think this was a super strong argument!

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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. DB2 9 on distributed platforms and DB2 9 on z/OS were given the codename “Viper” by IBM in 2006. Brief History. DB2 Editions.

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Advanced RAG patterns on Amazon SageMaker

AWS Machine Learning - AI

answer = wrapper_store_faiss.query(question=PROMPT.format(query=query), llm=llm) print(answer) AWS, or Amazon Web Services, has evolved significantly since its initial launch in 2006. There was no monitoring, load balancing, auto-scaling, or persistent storage at the time.