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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices

The Pragmatic Engineer

We used a system called CVS ( Concurrent Versions System ) for version control, as Git did not exist until 2005 when Linus Torvalds created it. Rather than failing with an error, this encountered an existing bug in the DEC Unix “copy” (cp) command, where cp simply overwrote the source file with a zero-byte file.

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Big Data Timeline- Series of Big Data Evolution

ProjectPro

Roosevelt’s administration in the US created the first major data project to track the contribution of nearly 3 million employers and 26 million Americans, after the Social Security Act became law. The massive bookkeeping project to develop punch card reading machines was given to IBM. 1937 - Franklin D. 10 21 i.e. 4.4