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Slack Security: inside the New Anomaly Event Response Architecture
Slack has launched Anomaly Event Response (AER), a real-time security system that autonomously detects suspicious activity, terminates risky sessions, and reduces response time from days to minutes. The system’s architecture includes a detection engine, decision framework, and response orchestrator to help organizations prevent breaches efficiently.
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10 AI-Related Standout Sessions at QCon San Francisco 2025
Join us at QCon San Francisco 2025 (Nov 17–21) for a three-day deep dive into the future of software development, exploring AI’s transformative impact. As a program committee member, I’m excited to showcase tracks that tackle real-world challenges, featuring industry leaders and sessions on AI, LLMs, and engineering mindsets. Don’t miss out!
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11 Sessions Not to Miss at QCon San Francisco 2025
As QCon San Francisco (Nov 17-21, 2025) approaches, the conference's program committee and track hosts are sharing their top picks from this year's lineup. Their selections span a wide range of topics, from AI-accelerated development and platform engineering to resilience patterns and career growth, all with QCon's signature focus on real-world case studies and lessons learned.
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Producing a Better Software Architecture with Residuality Theory
Software architecture is tough because it blends coding, math, and business systems. Due to surprises, architectures tend to become irrelevant over time, Barry O'Reilly said. He presented residuality theory, where he suggested stressing naive architectures to reveal hidden “attractors” in complex business systems. This allows designs to better survive change and uncertainty.
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How Netflix Powers Audience Insights at Trillion-Row Scale
In a recent blog post, Netflix engineers described how they scaled Muse, the company’s internal application for data-driven creative insights, to handle trillion-row datasets.
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Datadog Launches Monocle, a Unified Rust-Powered Real-Time Metrics Engine
Datadog has launched Monocle, a new real-time time series storage engine written in Rust. The system unifies the company’s metrics storage infrastructure, delivering higher ingestion throughput and lower query latency while reducing operational complexity. Monocle replaces several generations of storage backends, addressing concurrency challenges and scaling limits that accumulated over time.
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InfoQ Expands Architect Certification with Five-Week Online Cohort Program
InfoQ expands its architect certification offerings with a new online format. The InfoQ Certified Architect Program helps senior engineers translate technical skills into strategic influence and earn the ICSAET certification. Two cohorts begin on October 13th, 2025, for European and North American participants.
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How Sociotechnical Design Can Improve Architectural Decisions
Sociotechnical design in software development emphasizes creating systems where people and technology thrive by fostering collaboration, emergent coherence, and shared understanding through enabling constraints, leading not only to improved architecture but also to more effective, adaptive, and fulfilling work.
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Uber Eats Scales Catalog Management from Restaurants to Retail with INCA Framework
Uber Eats introduced INCA (Inventory and Catalog), a scalable system to handle vast product catalogs from supermarkets, pharmacies, and retail partners. Unlike the earlier restaurant-focused setup built for low SKUs and simple pass-through data, INCA supports large-scale inventories, rich metadata, and compliance needs essential for retail operations.
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An AI-Driven Approach to Creating Effective Learning Experiences at QCon
An experiment was created around a certification program influenced by AI at QCon London, which included special events during the conference, a pre-conference breakfast where participants could learn about upcoming activities, and an AI-driven workshop immediately following the conference. Wes Reisz spoke at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston about a program he led using AI.
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Navigating Complexity, from AI Strategy to Resilient Architecture: InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025
Tired of conferences that don't address your real challenges? The InfoQ Dev Summit Munich 2025 schedule is different. It's packed with sessions on the topics that keep us up at night: responsible AI adoption, leadership friction, and EU data sovereignty
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Experiences from Using AI as a Software Architect
Artificial intelligence excels at refining language and processing large text volumes, but lacks human-like contextual reasoning and emotional intelligence, Avraham Poupko said. Many human traits come into play when doing software architecture. As an architect, he suggests using AI for exploring tradeoffs and refining language with clarity and precision.
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AWS Open-Sources Smithy API Models for Public Access and Developer Tooling
AWS has unveiled public access to its comprehensive API models, delivering daily updates and open-source resources via GitHub. By utilizing Smithy, AWS aims to empower developers to build custom SDK clients, server stubs, and innovative tools, enhancing integration and understanding of AWS APIs. Explore the potential of API development with these powerful new tools!
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How Tripadvisor Migrated to The Composable Architecture for Their SwiftUI App
In a thorough article, Tripadvisor iOS principal engineer Ben Sarrazin described their journey toward adopting The Composable Architecture (TCA) for their existing iOS app, moving away from the Model-View-ViewModel-Coordinator (MVVM-C) architecture.
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CMU Researchers Introduce LegoGPT: Building Stable LEGO Structures from Text Prompts
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have introduced LegoGPT, a system that generates physically stable and buildable LEGO® structures from natural language descriptions. The project combines large language models with engineering constraints to produce designs that can be assembled manually or by robotic systems.