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LinkedIn Improves Development Productivity by 10x by Implementing a Messaging Client-Side SDK
LinkedIn recently published how it significantly improved development productivity by implementing a client-side Messenger SDK. Usage of the SDK reduces code maintenance costs across multiple apps by abstracting away thousands of lines of code into shared libraries. In one case, the new SDK saved 40+ developer weeks of effort when building a new LinkedIn experience.
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The Ten Year Journey of Facebook's App for iOS
Facebook rewrote its iOS app in 2012 to take advantage of native performance and improve reliability and usability over its previous HTML5-based cross-platform implementation. In the ten years since the rewrite, the app codebase has evolved non-stop to account for the introduction of new features, to circumvent SDK limitations, and to keep up with changes in the iOS platform.
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Avoid Being an "Ivory Tower" Architect: the Relationship between Architects and Their Organisation
In a recently published episode of Armchair Architects, the speakers discussed the relationship between software architects and the rest of the organisation. They detail how a successful architect can impact others by switching between going into the trenches and zooming into a tree and then being able to zoom out and estimate if that tree still fits into the forest.
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Six Essential Tracks at QCon London, March 27-29, 2023: Architecture, FinTech, ML, and More!
QCon London international software conference returns this March 27-29 with its 17th edition. Technical leaders who are driving innovation and change in software will share the latest trends and techniques from their real-world projects to help you solve common challenges. Learn about emerging trends in 2023, how to adopt them, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to embrace the best practices.
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Cloudflare Servers Share IP Addresses for Egress Traffic
Cloudflare recently detailed how it manages its servers' egress traffic using "soft-unicast ". Soft-unicast allows multiple servers to share a single IPv4 address for their egress traffic while redirecting the response packets to the correct physical server. It provides a scalable, cost-efficient solution for Cloudflare to offer various products that require tagged egress IP addresses.
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Testing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Advanced driver assistance systems can have a huge number of test cases. Cutting the elephant into smaller pieces can ensure every bit and piece is tested. A good test environment is essential to be efficient, fast and flexible to cover all required tests to ensure quality. Testers should be involved in the project right from the beginning to avoid task-forces, quality- or delivery problems.
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Mythical Man Month Author and Father of the 8-Bit Byte, Fred Brooks, Dies at 91
Dr Frederick P Brooks Jr, originator of the term "architecture in computing", author of one of the first books to examine the nature of computer programming from a sociotechnical perspective, architect of the IBM 360 series of computers, university professor and person responsible for the 8-bit byte, died on 17 November at his home in Chapel Hill, N.C. Dr Brooks was 91 years old.
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Uber Reduces Logging Costs by 169x Using Compressed Log Processor (CLP)
Uber recently published how it dramatically reduced its logging costs using Compressed Log Processor (CLP). CLP is a tool capable of losslessly compressing text logs and searching them without decompression. It achieved a 169x compression ratio on Uber's log data, saving storage, memory, and disk/network bandwidth.
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Uber Freight Near-Real-Time Analytics Architecture
Uber Freight is the Uber platform dedicated to connecting shippers with carriers. Providing reliable service to shippers is crucial for Uber Freight. This is why the Carrier Scorecard was developed, with several metrics including on-time pickup/delivery, tracking automation, and late cancellations.
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Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix: Tejas Shikhare at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tejas Shikhare, senior software engineer at Netflix, presented Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix. Shikhare has been working at Netflix’s federated GraphQL platform, distributed systems, and, more recently, developer tools and education. This talk is part of the editorial track Modern APIs: Building and Evolving.
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Leveraging Determinism: Frank Yu at QCon San Francisco 2022
Frank Yu, senior engineering manager at Coinbase, had his talk on leveraging deterministic systems to build and run consistent and predictable applications at scale, drawing direct and relevant experiences from building and running financial exchanges at Coinbase.
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How Honeycomb Used Serverless to Speed up Their Servers: Jessica Kerr at QCon San Francisco 2022
Jessica Kerr, a principal developer evangelist at Honeycomb, spoke at QCon San Francisco 2022 on their journey of using AWS Lambda to speed up their production application and how the serverless architecture helped Honeycomb achieve their product and user experience vision. Kerr closed her talk by emphasizing, "Technology and Architecture don't matter unless users are happy."
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Adopting Continuous Deployment: Tom Wanielista at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tom Wanielista, a staff engineer on infrastructure at Lyft, presented on Adopting Continuous Deployment at his company. The talk is part of one of the editorial tracks called "Architecting Change at Scale."
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Tapabrata Pal on DevOps at Fidelity: Investing in Inner Source and Engineering Excellence -DOES 2022
At the DevOps Enterprise Summit Vegas 2022, Tapabrata Pal presented the state of DevOps at Fidelity and their investment in DevOps and inner source. They were facing challenges with their tools sprawl, security, audit and compliance, and their metrics. They focused on a unified developer experience, their tools standardization, continuous compliance and contextual metrics.
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ArchUnit Verifies Architecture Rules for Java Applications
ArchUnit is an open source extensible library written in Java for verifying the architecture of Java applications. ArchUnit allows developers to enforce architecture rules such as naming conventions, class access to other classes, and the prevention of cycles. The library was originally created in 2017 by Peter Gafert and version 1.0.0 was released in October.