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Development

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A Thirteen Billion-Year-Old Photograph

Kenneth Harris, a NASA veteran who worked on the James Webb Space Telescope, shares how hardware and software engineering combine to make the $13 billion observatory function. He explains how the technology mimics the human eye to process infrared light and reveals how software engineers use data packets to transform raw data into stunning, full-color images.

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Architecture & Design

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Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries

Teena Idnani explains how to architect and build resilient event-driven distributed systems in a multi-cloud reality. Using a fictional bank's migration journey, she shares practical, code-level solutions for overcoming major challenges: managing cross-cloud latency, ensuring event ordering and consistency, building resilience by design, and preventing duplicate events.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

Stephen Batifol discusses building and optimizing self-hosted, multimodal RAG systems. He breaks down vector search, nearest neighbor indexes (FLAT, IVF, HNSW), and the critical role of choosing the right embedding model. He then explains vLLM inference optimization (paged attention, quantization) and uses Mistral's Pixtral to detail multimodal large language model architecture.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software

This article lays out some of the common assumptions and misconceptions about automation and its role in software (and software incidents), what our research has found regarding how automation shows up in software incidents, and some ideas around how people can better design automated tools to help people better handle software incidents.

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DevOps

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From Grassroots to Enterprise: Vanguard's Journey in SRE Transformation

Christina Yakomin shares Vanguard's SRE transformation: from quarterly testing of monoliths to a mature DevOps model with continuous delivery. She explains the SRE coaching hub, self-service tools, and advanced techniques like request-rate autoscaling. She details modern challenges, including region failure game days and testing AI-backed contact centers.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Ivar Jacobson on UML, MDA, and the future of methodologies

Ivar Jacobson on UML, MDA, and the future of methodologies

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Dr. Ivar Jacobson, co-founder of Jaczone AB, continues to be one of the great thought-leaders of the software world. He has made several seminal contributions to the field: he is one of the fathers of components and component architecture, use cases, modern business engineering, the Unified Modeling Language and the Rational Unified Process.