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Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking: Lessons from What Works and What Hurts
Event-driven architecture helps banks decouple systems, scale services, and create clear activity trails. But it also introduces complexity, new failure modes, and operational challenges. Chris Tacey-Green explains where it adds value in banking systems and the practical patterns, such as inbox/outbox and stable event contracts, needed to make it reliable.
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Lessons from Adopting SwiftUI in an App with 50 Million Users
Most SwiftUI educational content focuses on small projects and sample apps that do not explain what it means to adopt it in a 50 million user app developed by a team of 20+ iOS engineers. This article will attempt to fill this gap. and show how to succeed without breaking your team, your app, or your users' trust along the way.
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Configuration as a Control Plane: Designing for Safety and Reliability at Scale
Configuration has evolved from static deployment files into a live control plane that directly shapes system behavior. The evolution of configuration management highlights why misconfigurations can trigger large outages and how hyperscalers deploy changes safely using staged rollouts, validation, blast radius limits, and automated rollback at scale.
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Beyond Memory Safety: What Makes Rust Different – Lessons from Autonomous Robotics
This article explores that question through the lens of a real-world Rust project: a system responsible for controlling fleets of autonomous mobile robots. While Rust's memory safety is a strong foundation, its true power lies in the type system and ownership rules. The session will go beyond memory safety and explore ways to encode behavior and protocols directly into types.
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Read-Copy-Update (RCU): the Secret to Lock-Free Performance
Innovative software engineer with expertise in optimizing concurrency through advanced techniques like Read-Copy-Update (RCU). Proven track record of boosting read performance by over 110% in read-heavy workloads. Skilled in leveraging RCU principles across production systems, enhancing architecture efficiency, and streamlining data handling to maximize scalability and minimize overhead.
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Borrowing from Kotlin/Android to Architect Scalable iOS Apps in SwiftUI
Building iOS apps can feel like stitching together guidance from blog posts and Apple samples, which are rarely representative of how production architectures grow and survive. In contrast, the Kotlin/Android ecosystem has converged on well-documented, real-world patterns. This article explores how those approaches can be translated into Swift/SwiftUI to create maintainable, scalable iOS apps.
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Virtual Panel - Culture, Code, and Platform: Building High-Performing Teams
In this virtual panel, we'll focus on performance improvement through platform engineering and fostering developer experience, to increase productivity, quality, developer well-being, and more. We'll also explore the role that tech leadership can play in culture change and performance improvement for software development organizations.
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Building a Least-Privilege AI Agent Gateway for Infrastructure Automation with MCP, OPA, and Ephemeral Runners
This article presents a least-privilege AI Agent Gateway that places clear controls between AI agents and infrastructure. Agents do not access infrastructure APIs directly. Instead, every request is validated, authorized using policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA), and executed in short-lived, isolated environments, with built-in observability using OpenTelemetry.
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Architecting Agentic MLOps: a Layered Protocol Strategy with A2A and MCP
In this article, the authors outline protocols for building extensible multi-agent MLOps systems. The core architecture deliberately decouples orchestration from execution, allowing teams to incrementally add capabilities via discovery and evolve operations from static pipelines toward intelligent, adaptive coordination.
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You’ve Generated Your MVP Using AI. What Does That Mean for Your Software Architecture?
AI‑generated code creates implicit architectural decisions, forcing teams to rely on experimentation to validate quality attributes. To get useful results from AI, teams must clearly express trade‑offs and reasoning so the model can generate solutions aligned with desired QARs.
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From Prompts to Production: a Playbook for Agentic Development
In this article, author Abhishek Goswami shares a practitioner's playbook with development practices, that describes building agentic AI applications and scaling them in production. He also presents core architecture patterns for agentic application development.
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Jakarta EE 12 Milestone 2: Advent of the Data Age along with Consistency and Configuration
Jakarta EE 12 Milestone 2 marks the beginning of the next generation of enterprise Java. It introduces Jakarta Query, a unified query language across Persistence, Data, and NoSQL, while aligning the platform with Java 21. This milestone focuses on integration, modernization, and improving developer productivity for cloud-native enterprise applications.