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Parting the Clouds: the Rise of Disaggregated Systems
Murat Demirbas explains how cloud economics drive compute-storage disaggregation in modern database architectures. He shares insights on network bottlenecks, Paxos origins, and future tech.
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Compiling Workflows into Databases: the Architecture That Shouldn't Work (But Does)
Jeremy Edberg & Qian Li explain how to replace complex external orchestrators with DBOS Transact, an open-source library that implements durable workflow execution directly inside your database.
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From Copy-Paste to Composition: Building Agents Like Real Software
Jake Mannix explains how to mature AI agents using "virtual tools" for encapsulation, interface abstraction, and deterministic taint tracking to prevent lethal data exfiltration risks.
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Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends
Luca Mezzalira discusses a practical roadmap for migrating to micro-frontends, explaining how to optimize for team autonomy, identify domain boundaries, and leverage edge-compute routing.
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Chaos Engineering GPU Clusters
Bryan Oliver explains how to apply chaos engineering to massive GPU clusters. Learn how to handle hardware variability, NUMA nodes, and network faults to secure your AI infrastructure.
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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix
Anirudh Mendiratta and Benjamin Fedorka explain how Netflix handles massive traffic storms using service-level prioritized load shedding and client-side attempt budgets to protect critical path APIs.
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Moving Mountains: Migrating Legacy Code in Weeks Instead of Years
Principal AI Engineer David Stein explains how ServiceTitan uses AI coding agents to automate large-scale legacy code migrations, compressing quarters of technical debt into weeks.
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Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann explains how de facto standards, multi-cloud strategies, the AT Protocol, and local-first software can mitigate geopolitical risks and eliminate vendor lock-in.
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How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability
Joseph Lynch and Argha C. discuss how Netflix balances hardware supply and software demand. They explain techniques like risk-adjusted net value, buffer management, and priority-based load shedding.
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Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?
Chris Tacey-Green explains how to build resilient event-driven architectures in regulated banking, covering transactional integrity, idempotency patterns, and strategies to avoid "poisonous" messages.
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Latency: the Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?
Amir Langer explains the critical role of predictable low latency in fintech, sharing lessons from the past and modern techniques like kernel bypass and Aeron to push systems toward zero latency.
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Security and Architecture: to Betray One is to Destroy Both
Shana Dacres-Lawrence discusses the "betrayals" between security and architecture. She explains how delivery pressure and assumed trust lead to failures and shares five strategies for a lasting union.