Cross-Functional #185: Why we can't have nice things!
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Cross-Functional #185: Why we can't have nice things!

While benchmarking his system, Andres Freund, a developer at Microsoft, noticed an anomaly that unravelled into a scenario worthy of a cyber espionage thriller.The core of this story focuses on XZ Utils, a seemingly innocuous open-source library for file compression and decompression in Linux environments...

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Ant Murphy

Product Coach & Founder of Product Pathways - Helping product people have greater impact and companies shift to the product model ??

7 个月

Thanks for the shoutout - some great posts on there! Humbled to be one of them ??

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Lacey Picazo

CEO at ZoCo — Healthcare Product and Human-Factors Leader — Building digital experiences people love, and leading ZoCo's talent-dense team of researchers and designers.

7 个月

There are some great tidbits in here! I'm always eager to find new ways to advocate for lean and continuous discovery.

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