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Development

Rethinking Programming: Language and Platform for Cloud-Era Application Developers

Ballerina is an open source programming language, which focuses on improving the productivity of the latter group by providing necessary abstractions, tools, and platforms to create cloud native applications.

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Architecture & Design

Sam Newman: Monolith to Microservices

Wes Reisz talks with Sam Newman about techniques and patterns that Sam writes about in his latest book. Topics covered in the podcast include understanding the problem you’re trying to solve, organizational/people changes when it comes to microservice architectures, database strategies for decomposing monolithic datastores, and why we’re seeing projects reverting from microservices to monoliths.

Machine Learning through Streaming at Lyft

Sherin Thomas talks about the challenges of building and scaling a fully managed, self-service platform for stream processing using Flink, best practices, and common pitfalls. Thomas goes into the details of how the Lyft system evolved over the last couple of years, as well as the design tradeoffs they made.

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Culture & Methods

Should We Really Run It if We Build It?

"Build it, run it" is the war-cry of the startup and scale up industry. Is it really that simple? Are there hidden costs like engineer burnout and a lasting impact on a young culture? And do B2B and B2C companies have different prerogatives?

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DevOps

The Evolution of Distributed Systems on Kubernetes

Bilgin Ibryam takes us on a journey exploring Kubernetes primitives, design patterns and new workload types.