Platform · 2005–now · Web Boom
Git
Distributed version control that ate the industry. Merge pain remains; centralized SVN does not.
Why Git stuck
Git stuck because branching and offline work match how software actually gets written. GitHub turned it into social infrastructure, not just a tool. Everything else is legacy migration waiting to happen.
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Practice · 2001–now
Agile (as practiced)
Individuals and interactions — then SAFe slideware. The manifesto stuck; the ceremony industrial complex is the fad layer.
Platform · 2011–2023
Jenkins
Plugin palace CI that defined pipeline culture — and Groovy nightmares. Still running somewhere in your org; greenfield moved on.
Platform · 1991–now
Linux
The production OS. Cloud VMs, containers, phones, routers — the penguin ate the datacenter.