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Covers O’Reilly’s shift to cross-discipline books such as Art of Capacity Planning and Beautiful Code and the growth of the theory and practice series, explains that the Velocity conference grew from a book author and gatherings of engineers from Amazon, Google and eBay, reports that free books (eg Subversion) are author-driven and don’t noticeably change sales, flags trends: capacity planning, petabyte storage, Hadoop and Bigtable, low interest in multicore, startups shipping fast sometimes without regression tests, and expanded outreach via videos and Safari.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:15The direction of books
3. 2:13Free books
4. 3:52Big trends
5. 5:10Simplicity
6. 5:53About the Conference

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