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MARCH 17, 2021

At the QCon London last year, Holly Cummins innovation leader in IBM Corporate Strategy provided a session titled: Cloud-Native is about Culture, not Containers. In this article, Holly will discuss the role of culture in cloud-native architecture.

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MARCH 10, 2022

At QCon Plus, Juan Fumero spoke about TornadoVM, a high-performance computing platform for the JVM, allowing to offload, at runtime, Java code to run on heterogeneous hardware accelerators. GPUs, FPGAs, or multi-core CPUs are present in almost every computing system today.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

At QCon Plus, Mathias Schwarz, a software engineer at Uber, presented safe and fast deploys at planet scale. Uber is a big business and has several different products. They are, in most cases, deployed to dozens or hundreds of markets all over the world. By Mathias Schwarz.

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JUNE 30, 2021

At QCon plus, a virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects covering the trends, best practices, and solutions leveraged by the world's most innovative software organizations, Elizabeth Carretto discussed observability at Netflix and how their internal tool, Edgar, comes into play. By Elizabeth Carretto.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At QCon Plus 2021, Katharine Jarmul spoke about machine learning on edge devices using federated machine learning.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At QCon Plus November 2021, Nora Jones, CEO and founder of Jeli, talked about how to build production readiness reviews (PRR) with emphasis on context and psychological safety. Her talk focused on the particulars of a PRR process that relates to incidents. By Nora Jones.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

At QCon Plus 2021 last November, Sid Anand, Chief Architect at Datazoom and PMC Member at Apache Airflow, presented on building high-fidelity nearline data streams as a service within a lean team. In this talk, Sid provides a master class on building high-fidelity data streams from the ground up. By Sid Anand.

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JUNE 28, 2021

At QCon, a virtual conference for senior software engineers and architects covering the trends, Chinmay Soman talked about how you can use Apache Pinot as part of your data pipelines for building rich, external, or site-facing analytics. By Chinmay Soman.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Nicky Wrightson, from Skyscanner, hosted a panel at QCon London with participants who have moved from the monolith to microservices and in some cases back again.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There's a worrying trend towards focusing on specialisms at the expense of collaboration, shared responsibility and valuable outcomes, which can take teams away from multi-disciplinary collaboration.

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MARCH 21, 2024

Explore Cloudflare's distributed PostgreSQL clusters and learn how a cross-region architecture ensures resilience. Discover how data storage and access at the edge deliver massive performance gains by reducing location-sensitive latency and why architecting for degraded states is much harder than for failure states.

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MARCH 27, 2024

Only doing product-led work can lead to an unmaintainable system with lots of downtime. Unfortunately, getting time to work on the things that would prevent that can be challenging. Engineering roadmaps balance many competing demands, and the people making the decisions aren’t always the closest to the code.

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MARCH 22, 2024

Cellular architecture is a design pattern that helps achieve high availability in multi-tenant applications. The goal is to design your application so that you can deploy all of its components into an isolated "cell" that is fully self-sufficient. It can benefit your customers regarding availability and ensure you hit your SLAs. By Chris Price

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Over the last 30 years, the world has become connected and digital. Open source is how we do modern software development, stitching together downloaded open-source libraries, frameworks, and other code to create new applications or functionality. This is why every developer and senior staff+ roles need to know what open source is and how it works.

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MARCH 25, 2024

In this article Diwan shared how the Netflix membership team does distributed systems: the architecture bets, technology choices, and operational semantics that serve the needs of Netflix’s ever-growing member base. By Surabhi Diwan

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MARCH 26, 2024

Aayush Mudgal describes how Pinterest serves advertisements. He discussed in detail how Machine Learning is used to serve ads at large scale. He went over ads marketplaces and the ad delivery funnel, the ad serving architecture , and two of the main problems: ads retrieval and ranking.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This article explores how generative AI affects fraud detection by reducing false positives and dynamically adapting to changing fraud patterns. This combination offers a potent preventive solution when integrated with machine learning. The efficacy and scalability of fraud prevention initiatives are enhanced by this innovative approach.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Topics like “you build it, you run it” and “shifting testing/security/data governance left” are popular. Moving things to earlier stages of software development, empowering engineers. Yet, what is the cost? What does it mean for the developers who are involved? What are the solutions that can help you keep DevOps and Shifting Left?

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JANUARY 31, 2024

This article focuses on implementing data residency strategies for a positive stakeholder experience. It underscores the need to diversify data locations, driven by motivations like disaster recovery and geo-redundancy.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Struggling with your "agile transformation?" Is your scaling framework not providing the outcomes you hoped for? In this article, we’ll discuss how teams in a large enterprise replaced heavy agile processes with Conway’s Law and better engineering to migrate from quarterly to daily value delivery to the end users. By Bryan Finster

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Achieving a staff+ engineering role is a considerable achievement that many engineers seek as the next step in their career growth. In this article, we’ll discuss the challenges that staff+ engineers can face and how our struggles are similar to those of artists.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Better documentation and knowledge sharing creates transparency that aids onboarding, prevents turnover disruption, and withstands reorganizations.

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APRIL 13, 2023

This article conveys the foundational concepts and different types of Open Source Java profilers. It allows you to choose the best-suited profiler for your needs and comprehend how these tools work in principle.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Making large, important technical decisions is a critical aspect of a senior individual contributor's role. This article examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework developed in the 1970s, and adapted it for making technical and non-technical decisions both large and small. By John Riviello

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Leaders know that they need to support organizational efficiency, but how they do that ca vary based on the situation and context of the organization. Learning how to utilize a few key leadership frameworks in certain environments can help maintain the appropriate level of support, urgency, and independence when situations shift. By Shweta Saraf

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JUNE 7, 2023

This article takes a deep dive through a complex outage in the main database cluster of a payments company.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

In this article, we will discuss what problems we had to solve at Twilio to efficiently build a resilient and scalable asynchronous system to handle a complex workflow and the advantages we got from adopting a Workflow Orchestration solution, including abstracting away state management and out-of-the-box support for retries, observability, and audibility. (..)

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AUGUST 14, 2023

This article describes the journey of the migration towards a Federated GraphQL architecture. Specifically, it shows the GraphQL platform Netflix has built consisting of the Domain Graph Services framework for implementing GraphQL services in Java using Spring Boot and graphql-java, and tools for schema development.

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JULY 10, 2023

Designing for adaptability sounds easier than done. How do you design and build systems that can evolve and thrive in the face of constant change?

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MAY 1, 2023

So often, well-intended hybrid/remote organisations and leaders will focus on surface level mental health/well-being support initiatives. This article will highlight the importance of addressing this important topic from a holistic perspective, addressing systemic processes and policies to ensure they have the “whole person” in mind.

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JULY 12, 2022

This article describes how staff+ engineers transition to supporters, enablers and force multipliers of others and what technical leadership looks like away from the management track. It explains the benefits for organisations to have leadership roles that are focussed on technical enablement and support. By Nicky Wrightson.

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MAY 1, 2019

In a talk at QCon London 2019 , Jason Box and Paul Johnston shared the following estimates: IoT products will cause 3.5% Last but not least, consider the environmental impact of your product. Even though your product may be digital, it still consumes energy to be developed and hosted. of all carbon emissions by 2025; and.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 1, 2019

In a talk at QCon London 2019 , Jason Box and Paul Johnston shared the following estimates: IoT products will cause 3.5% Last but not least, consider the environmental impact of your product. Even though your product may be digital, it still consumes energy to be developed and hosted. of all carbon emissions by 2025; and.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Generative AI will profoundly transform communication and information sharing over the next decade, but the change will be uneven across industries and roles. Organizations should empower workers to use AI augmentation thoughtfully, while building literacy on capabilities and limits.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Don’t get stuck with overwhelmed systems that can cause an outage, like what happened with Taylor Swift concert tickets. Build organizational resilience to incidents through improved coordination and communication during the response, and blameless reviews, root cause analysis, and insightful communication afterward to enable meaningful change.

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JULY 28, 2021

This article explores GitHub's recent journey towards a microservices architecture.

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MARCH 9, 2023

The increasing adoption of application-first cloud services is causing applications to blend with the cloud services at levels much deeper than before. The runtime boundaries between the application and the cloud are shifting from virtual machines to containers and functions. By Bilgin Ibryam

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