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Analyzing Codebases for Fun and Profit

Jordan Bragg discusses using entry-points, breadth-first scanning, and operation tagging to demystify the domain, see where to dive deeper, and uncover what technical debt may exist.

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Location, Location, Location: MVA Considerations for Distributed Processing and Data

Even when designing a Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA), developers must consider resource location, especially when mobile apps are part of a distributed system. Distributing the data and processing can introduce new challenges if location is not part of the decision making criteria.

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

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Migrating Netflix's Viewing History from Synchronous Request-Response to Async Events

In a web-based service, a slowdown in request processing can eventually make your service unavailable. Chances are, not all requests need to be processed right away. Some of them just need an acknowledgement of receipt. Have you ever asked yourself: “Would I benefit from asynchronous processing of requests? If so, how would I make such a change in a live, large-scale mission critical system?”

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Observability for Speed & Flow

Jessica Kerr considers that we should be looking at the software as part of the team, and observability in the software becomes an asset to organizing teams.

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The Hows and Whys of Effective Production-Readiness Reviews

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.

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Architecture & Design

Stateful Service Design Considerations for the Kubernetes Stack

At this summer’s QCon in New York, Jonas Bonér delivered one of the most popular talks of the conference with his focus on Designing Events-First Microservices. In this InfoQ Q&A, we asked Bonér to explain how “bringing bad habits from monolithic design” is a road to nowhere for service design, and where he sees his Akka framework fitting in the cloud-native stack.

Jonas Bonér
on Nov 15, 2018
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Chris Fregly on the PANCAKE STACK Workshop and Data Pipelines

InfoQ Interviews Chris Fregly, organizer for the 4000+ member Advanced Spark and TensorFlow Meetup about the PANCAKE STACK workshop, Spark and building data pipelines for a machine learning pipeline

Dylan Raithel
on Aug 29, 2016
Creating Resilient Software with Akka

Akka Tech Lead Dr. Roland Kuhn offers a behind the scenes look at Akka, showing what the driving forces behind the development of its guiding principles are.

Roland Kuhn
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