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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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Where Architects Sit in the Era of AI

As AI evolves from tool to collaborator, architects must shift from manual design to meta-design. This article introduces the "Three Loops" framework (In, On, Out) to help navigate this transition. It explores how to balance oversight with delegation, mitigate risks like skill atrophy, and design the governance structures that keep AI-augmented systems safe and aligned with human intent.

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Lessons Learned from Shipping AI-Powered Healthcare Products

Clara Matos discusses the journey of shipping AI-powered healthcare products at Sword Health. She explains how to implement input/output guardrails for regulated industries and shares a framework for robust evaluations using human and LLM-based ratings. From prompt engineering to RAG and user feedback loops, she shares a data-driven roadmap for building reliable AI care agents at scale.

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Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Peter Hunter & Elena Stojmilova share Open GI's journey from a slow, legacy monolith to a cloud-native SaaS platform. They detail how adopting Team Topologies and a decentralized architectural approach empowered teams. Key practices discussed include utilizing Domain-Driven Design to create a Context Map, implementing the Advice Process with Architectural Principles, and more.

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Overload Protection: the Missing Pillar of Platform Engineering

Overload protection is often overlooked in platform engineering, leaving teams to create inconsistent, fragile fixes. Centralized rate limits, quotas, adaptive controls, and clear visibility give services predictable ways to handle traffic spikes, reduce reliability debt, and prevent cascading failures across systems.

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The InfoQ eMag: QCon 2018 Retrospective

We take a look back at best QCon highlights in 2018, including QCon London, QCon.AI, QCon New York and QCon San Francisco.

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

Where Architects Sit in the Era of AI

Lessons Learned from Shipping AI-Powered Healthcare Products

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Overload Protection: the Missing Pillar of Platform Engineering

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The InfoQ eMag: QCon 2018 Retrospective

Magika 1.0: Smarter, Faster File Detection with Rust and AI

HL is a Fast, Rust-Based JSON Log Viewer Offering up to 2GiB/s Parsing Speed

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AWS Expands Well-Architected Framework with Responsible AI and Updated ML and Generative AI Lenses

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InfoQ Announces January Online Architect Cohort Focused on Socio-Technical Leadership

Lessons Learned from Migrating a Legacy Test Suite to Gauge with Kotlin

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Leading from Any Position: Richard Bown on Humane Engineering Organizations

Toad: A Unified CLI Tool for All Your LLMs That Promises Improved UX From Existing Ones

Neptune Combines AI‑Assisted Infrastructure as Code and Cloud Deployments

Meta Details GEM Ads Model Using LLM-Scale Training, Hybrid Parallelism, and Knowledge Transfer

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Pinterest Engineering Reduces Android CI Build Times by 36% with Runtime-Aware Sharding

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