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How to Use Apache Spark to Craft a Multi-Year Data Regression Testing and Simulations Framework

Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on multi-year worth of data. He shares insights into why Apache Spark was the choice for creating such a system and how it fits in the "traditional" engineering practices.

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Architecture & Design

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Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies

The article shares goals and strategies for scaling cloud and distributed applications, focusing on lessons learned from cloud migration at Chase.com at JP Morgan Chase. The discussion centers on three primary goals and the strategies addressing the goals, concluding how these approaches were achieved in practice. For those managing large-scale systems, these lessons provide valuable guidance!

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AI Infrastructure

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GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering

In this episode, QCon AI New York 2025 Chair Wes Reisz speaks with Reken CEO and Google Trust & Safety founder Shuman Ghosemajumder about the erosion of digital trust. They explore how deepfakes and automated social engineering are scaling cybercrime and argues defenders must move beyond default trust, utilizing behavioral telemetry and game theory to counter attacks that simulate human behavior.

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Culture & Methods

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Empathy Driven Platforms: You Build It, Let’s Run It Together

Erin Doyle explains the evolution from siloed IT Ops to the Platform Team model, revealing why the "You Build It, You Run It" principle created new cognitive load. She shares the Empathy-Driven Platforms strategy - the ultimate attack against engineering roadblocks. Discover ways platform teams can build empathy, foster psychological safety, and adopt a product mindset.

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DevOps

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Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required

Louis Ryan shares a compelling vision for modern cloud native hybrid networking. He critiques primitive network abstractions (the "Big IP" problem) and rigid security policies that rot and cause SPOFs. Discover how architects can elevate network functionality, bake in identity (mTLS/PKI), and leverage composability to achieve repeatable policy enforcement everywhere their applications run.

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Billy Newport is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM working on WebSphere eXtreme Scale distributed caching technology (ObjectGrid). He is the main architect for high availability, clustering and persistence technologies. He also helped add advanced APIs like WorkManager APIs (JSR 236/237) and worked on the staff plugin architecture of WebSphere Process Server (WPS).

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How to Use Apache Spark to Craft a Multi-Year Data Regression Testing and Simulations Framework

Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies

GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering

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Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required

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