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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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Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug Development Acceleration

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Satish Kothapalli about the transformative impact of AI and vibe coding in life sciences software development, the acceleration of drug development timelines, and the evolving roles of developers in an AI-augmented environment.

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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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Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.

Ben Linders Joy Ebertz Pablo Fredrikson Charlotte de Jong Schouwenburg
on Dec 11, 2024
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How to Accelerate Your Staff+ Career through Open Source Engagement

It takes many factors for an engineer to land a Staff+ position. In this article, you’ll find how contributing and engaging to open-source can help you sharpen critical Staff+ skills like writing communication, while helping increase your visibility and the odds of landing in such a position.

Alex Porcelli
on Jun 09, 2022

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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

Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug Development Acceleration

Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required

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Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

How to Accelerate Your Staff+ Career through Open Source Engagement

Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends by Luca Mezzalira at QCon SF

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

Rust at the Core: Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development by Spencer Judge at QCon SF 2025

From On-Demand to Live : Netflix Streaming to 100 Million Devices in Under 1 Minute

Grab Adds Real-Time Data Quality Monitoring to Its Platform

Karrot Improves Conversion Rates by 70% with New Scalable Feature Platform on AWS

Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug Development Acceleration

Growing Yourself as a Software Engineer, Using AI to Develop Software

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

MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base

Memori Expands into a Full-Scale Memory Layer for AI Agents across SQL and MongoDB

How Discord Scaled its ML Platform from Single-GPU Workflows to a Shared Ray Cluster

Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required

NVIDIA Dynamo Addresses Multi-Node LLM Inference Challenges

System Initiative Unveils Expansion with Real-Time Multi-Cloud Discovery and Automation

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