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We are still early with the cloud

Erik Bernhardsson

about what I want from software infrastructure, but the ideas morphed in my head into something sort of wider. I encountered AWS in 2006 or 2007 and remember thinking that it's crazy — why would anyone want to put their stuff in someone else's data center? Less time spent on infrastructure. We've seen Cloud 1.0

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Infrastructure-as-Code Is The New Assembly Language For The Cloud

Stacks on Stacks

My career as a software engineer started in 2007 at Purdue University. A big component of this was figuring out how to navigate a gigantic code base, which hit 6 million lines of code that year (again, in 2007!) It’s these higher order abstractions that help engineering teams realize pivotal business results.

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Netflix OSS and Spring Boot?—?Coming Full Circle

Netflix Tech

Coming Full Circle Taylor Wicksell, Tom Cellucci, Howard Yuan, Asi Bross, Noel Yap, and David Liu In 2007, Netflix started on a long road towards fully operating in the cloud. In 2015, Spring Cloud Netflix reached 1.0. Over time this has become the preferred way for the community to adopt Netflix’s Open Source software.

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ServerlessDays Nashville & the serverless mindset

Stackery

It’s always interesting how many of my “soft” skills from past jobs and experiences have wound up being incredibly relevant and transferable to my software engineering career. I got my degree in music education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and went on to teach soon after. c) Mock the cloud services.

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LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge

CIO

Laying the foundation for innovation None of this would have been possible without having migrated to the cloud, which LexisNexis began in 2015. But it was an uphill climb to get to the cloud. When Reihl joined LexisNexis in 2007, roughly half of the company’s infrastructure, including its core platform, was based on the mainframe.

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Platform Engineering: The Next Step in Operations

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

And like all other buzzwords, it’s in danger of becoming meaningless—in danger of meaning whatever some company with a “platform engineering” product wants to sell. While cloud providers have taken over the racking, stacking, and software installation, they now offer scores of services, each of which has to be configured correctly.

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Why CIOs Need to Understand Apache Cassandra

CIO

But did you know that Cassandra is used by a huge range of companies — including small, cloud-native application builders, financial firms, and broadcasters? The company launched its streaming service in 2007 using an Oracle database housed in a single data center. This quickly caught the eye of other rising web stars, like Netflix.