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Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
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Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager

by Dr. James Stanier
May 2020
Beginner to intermediate
396 pages
10h 22m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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The Cathedral and the Bazaar

The connective tissue of the internet is built with free and open source software. Data centers run various distributions of Linux. You can browse the web with Mozilla Firefox. It’s highly likely your company stores data in one of many open source databases such as Postgres and MySQL. Maybe you have Lucene indexes served up in a distributed cluster by Solr. When you reflect on what we can download and use for free while also receiving continual updates from skilled engineers that contribute for a hobby, it’s quite staggering.

As of 2018, the hosting site for software projects using the Git version-control system, GitHub, had received over 1.1 billion code contributions from 21 million developers across 96 million ...

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