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Development

Featured in Development

Scott Jenson on Evolving Desktop OS, Local-First, & Agentic UX

In this episode, Scott Jenson, a veteran UX designer known for his work on the Macintosh, Google Maps, and Chrome examines the long-term stagnation of desktop operating systems and the limitations of current mobile and cloud-centric models.

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved

Kasia Trapszo discusses how Netflix evolved its commerce platform from a U.S. DVD service into global infrastructure. She explains navigating international payment realities, adapting to strict regulatory mandates, decomposing monolithic architectures along domain boundaries, and re-architecting systems for massive live-event demand - proving great systems survive by continually evolving.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Running AI at the Edge: Running Real Workloads Directly in the Browser

James Hall discusses the strategic and technical imperative of moving AI workloads from cloud providers to local edge devices. He shares practical approaches using WebGPU, Transformers.js, and DuckDB to achieve near-native performance in JavaScript. Through real-world case studies, he explains how to minimize data privacy risks, optimize browser inference, and build rigorous evaluation suites.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs

Shift-left and DevOps have impacted how we flow changes from inception to production, but at the cost of increased cognitive load and duplication of effort across testing, security, and maintenance. This article explores the real-world challenges of rightsizing developer platforms and finding a cultural match for engineering teams who use them to reduce cognitive load and deliver change faster.

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DevOps

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Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Anthropic reliability engineer Alex Palcuie shares practical lessons on using LLMs for real-world incident response. He explains where AI acts as a superhuman for observing logs and traces, why it still struggles with causation versus correlation during root-cause analysis, and how engineering leaders can integrate AI into on-call workflows without eroding human expertise.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Jimmy Nilsson on LINQ to SQL

Jimmy Nilsson on LINQ to SQL

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Bio

Jimmy Nilsson is co-founder and CEO of the Swedish consulting company factor10. He has written numerous technical articles and two books, including 'Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns'. He has also been training and speaking at conferences, but above everything else, in his own words, he is a developer with twenty years of experience. Visit Jimmy's blog at http://JimmyNilsson.com/blog/.

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