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Craig St. Jean, From Young Programmer to Chief Technology Architect

Xebia

Then, to expand my capabilities, I jumped into C++ and built more text-based applications, and also started on Win32 and MFC GUI applications such as TCP/IP chat tools, remote system administration, and more. After all of that, I tried my hand at anything I could get my hands on.

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Simplifying Kubernetes Management with Instant Platform Engineering

d2iq

Although there are similarities between all three roles, understanding the differences can help to explain why platform engineering has become such a significant emerging trend.Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, most setups had a single system administrator (sysadmin) or operator through whom developers had to go to get anything done.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Before that, cloud computing itself took off in roughly 2010 (AWS was founded in 2006); and Agile goes back to 2000 (the Agile Manifesto dates back to 2001, Extreme Programming to 1999). The web is over 30 years old; the Netscape browser appeared in 1994, and it wasn’t the first.

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