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The death of big software

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We are past the tipping point in the transition away from 20th-century big software architectures.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 12
      December 2017
      91 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3167461
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