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29th June 2011 - Link Blog

The New Heroku (Part 4 of 4): Erosion-resistance & Explicit Contracts. I really like Adam’s description of Software Erosion—I’ve seen that happen to my projects a bunch of times, and it really is an important problem to solve.

Posted 29th June 2011 at 5:26 pm

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