We had the second meeting of SAC last Sunday, 10-Aug. This time, we had five attendees, and except for Venkatesh and Tathagat, the other three came for their first meeting: Venkat (Philips/NXP), Bhaskar (Software AG) and Rafi (Alcatel-Lucent). As there were new members, we diligently invested a good amount of time on coffee, socializing and digging out old connections 🙂 Venkat shared his perspective from the semiconductor world, and how the software on chip is not only leading to high complexity of software, but also demanding higher performance. Venkat and Tathagat shared experiences from a previous product they worked on together (Digital Set-top Boxes) and how incorrect / bad architecture choices led to significant challenges for the product brought in the perspective of how the principles of architecture can be applied in the context of existing product – and...
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