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    Jan 13

    Hooray! 🎉 You can now subscribe to Increment, ’s quarterly magazine about how teams build and operate software systems at scale. (You can stock up on individual issues from our back catalog, too.)

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  2. Jan 31

    "95 percent of ATM transactions pass through COBOL programs, 80 percent of in-person transactions rely on them, and over 40 percent of banks still use COBOL as the foundation of their systems." But how long can the language be maintained?

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  3. Jan 30

    Dig into 's "Tests from the crypt" (illustrated by James Noellert) in the print edition of Issue 10: Testing. Find it, and more, at the Increment Store:

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  4. Jan 29

    "Internationalization is not a feature, it’s an architecture."—

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  5. Jan 28

    "Creating a cross-platform application for a device that looks good while remaining productive has long been my white whale. This frustration led me to explore leveraging web interfaces to solve my robotics-related problems"—

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  6. Jan 27

    "Unconstrained by a single vendor, the JavaScript ecosystem closely reflects human culture. It is inventive, incremental, messy, assimilating everything on its way, and ubiquitous."—

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  7. Jan 26

    "The effect of LaTeX on scientific and technical publishing has been profound. The sheer volume of papers, journals, books, and other publications generated in the modern world is far beyond the throughput possible via manual typesetting."—

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  8. Jan 25

    “What are the two most complex machine systems ever made? The internet or the power grid.”—’s Kyle Garton

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  9. Jan 24

    "[Programming] languages represent different ideas of how to capture human creativity on a machine, and I’ve never been disappointed by pulling the curtain back on an implementation to see how it ticks."—

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  10. Jan 24

    "We can’t stake our team’s success on just 'more code reviews.'"—

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  11. Jan 23

    "Proprietary data is precious to technology companies, yet some of the most valuable data lives solely in the minds of engineers."

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  12. Jan 22

    "If you put obstacle courses inside your product, application, or organization, people will get really good at obstacle courses." on the intersections of design and security:

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  13. Jan 21

    "Creating the right level of abstraction is one of the hardest things that software engineers do."

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  14. Jan 20

    "Creating highly accessible docs can have a large impact on both the usability and popularity of a project."—

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  15. Jan 20

    Increment subscriptions are now available:

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  16. Jan 19

    “Testing with end users is the ultimate verification. That’s when you go beyond ‘correctness’ and validate whether this is the behavior your audience actually wants.”—

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  17. Jan 19

    An in-depth look at the perks and pitfalls of going remote, by :

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  18. Jan 18

    “A system’s resilience is not defined by its lack of errors; it’s defined by its ability to survive many, many, many errors.”—

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  19. Jan 17

    "Engineers can act quickly when they don’t have to spend time looking for siloed information."—

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  20. Jan 17

    "If you don’t have access to technical writers, fear not! A few well-written documents can have a big impact."

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  21. Jan 16
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