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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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Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust

Emma Yuan Fang explains the Zero Trust mindset required to combat modern software supply chain attacks. She details security controls for dependency management, including SBOM (Software Bill of Materials), artifact signing, Git commit signing, and CI/CD hardening. Learn how to implement security gating, enforce policies as code, and manage secrets across your build and runtime environments.

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When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions meant to simplify become hidden fragility points. Success requires profiling on target hardware, relentlessly monitoring boring details, keeping hot paths lean, and trusting instrumentation over theory.

Mitendra Mahto
on Nov 12, 2025
Cloud

How to Minimize Latency and Cost in Distributed Systems

Explore the benefits and challenges of microservices architecture in cloud environments, focusing on achieving resilience and high availability while managing costs and performance issues.

Amir Souchami
on Sep 25, 2024

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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

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

Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust

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When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

How to Minimize Latency and Cost in Distributed Systems

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

Grab Adds Real-Time Data Quality Monitoring to Its Platform

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

Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies

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

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

Authenticity Over Convention: Lessons from 16 Years of Solo Game Development

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

GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering

NVIDIA Dynamo Addresses Multi-Node LLM Inference Challenges

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

Helm Improves Kubernetes Package Management with Biggest Release in 6 Years

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