…Microsoft. After Bill came, Ray Ozzie , whose title was Chief Software Architect. Ozzie left in late 2010 and there are no plans to fill his position. The departures of two other "vision guys", Robbie Bach and J Allard , both from the Entertainment and Devices division (who brought forth the Xbox) are only contributing to the vision vacuum. I think that this leaves them stuck in their current mode, best described as "Winning business [is] …
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This week's edition focuses on latency and scalability with articles from Joshua Bixby, Piotr Kwapin, InfoQ, and more.
* Hear how Words with Friends scaled their backend on Talentopoly's latest podcast.
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…Michael has written and co-authored several books, including "97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know" and the best seller "Release It!".
About the conference
GOTO Aarhus is the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects, and project management and is organized by developers, for developers. As software developers and architects ourselves, we wanted to craft the ultimate conference. The result is a high quality conference experience …
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…heaven." This week, in the Intridea Insider, meet Sean Soper , Software Architect at Intridea.
Sean started programming during the time he spent living on the side of an extinct volcano in Naples, Italy when he was twelve years old. "My Dad was a civilian contractor for the Navy. We didn't live on base, but on the side of this old volcano. There were no other kids around." When his parents bought an old Packard Bell PB500, "with a 8088 processor", …
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…multiple CPUs, not just multiple cores) in Clojure. I'm currently the Chief Software Architect at a startup called Runa , in Mountain View, CA. We are a provider of SaaS solutions to online e-tailers to enable them to provide real-time, analytics-driven promotions to their shoppers. More than 90% of our backend is written in Clojure.
Michael>> How did you get involved with Clojure?
Amit>> As I said earlier, I've used Scheme on my personal …
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The Senior Software Architect in the Interactive Newsroom Technologies group talks about deploying time-sensitive news applications with Rails.
Sites mentioned
Sean Soper , Software Architect at Intridea, asks Jeremy, "What do you say to the folks who insist that a conference has to cost money in order to have value?" Turns out that Jeremy gets this question quite frequently: "I say they're crazy. I get e-mail after e-mail about, "oh you should charge for the Hoedown so you cut costs on yourself!" Or, "you should charge for your Ruby book! You could make a lot of change!" First of all, that's …
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Dingding Ye , Software Architect
Unfortunately, I never had the privilege of meeting Zigzag in person; but he still felt like a brother to me. His charisma, kindness, and generosity will never be forgotten. Zigzag will always remain in my memory as an excellent person with exceedingly great character."
Jonathan Nelson , Product Manager
We'll hold Zig close to our hearts, and commemorate him as we continually find new ways to give back to our community in his name. We …
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