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by mahmud 4930 days ago
I don't think the world of software development changed at all since 2009. It takes about 15 years to see noticable shifts in practices.

Also, shared-nothing "architecture" goes back to the 60s with the first investigations into concurrency. In fact, if I were being pedantic, I would say it predates computing itself: logic is all side-effect free.
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yfyf 4930 days ago
Sure, theoretical investigations on things begin many years earlier than anyone starts actually using them, but somehow "concurrency" wasn't something available to your everyday Joe back in 60s, right? Multi-core wasn't the norm, there was no elastic cloud, what so on.

And I am not really claiming that software development changed much in 3 years, but I think people's mindsets are changing faster than that, especially of those who are actively involved in thinking about these things.

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mahmud 4930 days ago
Fair point.
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