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Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time
Aleksandar Mitic and Jo Kelly-Fenton discuss how Spotify uses "Honk," a background AI coding agent, to automate codebase migrations at scale and tackle the ongoing maintenance problem.
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The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity
Holly Cummins explains how tech history rhymes, tracing tradeoffs from the Great Stink to cloud, AI hype cycles, and ZIRP, urging leaders to recycle old engineering disciplines for sustainability.
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Clean Architecture for Serverless: Business Logic You Can Take Anywhere
Elena van Engelen explains how to build cloud-agnostic serverless applications. She shares how Spring Cloud Function, Clean Architecture, and Gradle decouple business logic from AWS and Azure.
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Practical Performance Tuning for Serverless Java on AWS
AWS Hero Vadym Kazulkin discusses optimizing serverless Java on AWS Lambda. He explains how to slash cold start latencies below one second using managed SnapStart, priming, and GraalVM AOT.
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Confidently Automating Changes across a Diverse Fleet
Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer explains how the company is automating fleet-wide code changes and migrations at scale, driving adoption timelines down from months to mere days with confidence.
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Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey
Viktor Vedmich explains how to achieve sub-millisecond application latency using Valkey, an open-source, high-performance in-memory fork of Redis supported by AWS.
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Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application
Daniele Frasca shares how to scale streaming apps for millions of users using serverless patterns. Learn to eliminate single points of failure, improve data consistency, and master multi-region.
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Duolingo's Kubernetes Leap
Franka Passing explains Duolingo's migration from AWS ECS to EKS, discussing how they built a foundation with Argo CD and Karpenter to enable blue-green deployments for 128M+ active users.
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How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton explains how Man Group built ArcticDB, a serverless database connecting directly to S3. He discusses using CRDTs to manage global state and leveraging immutable trees for atomicity.
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Architecting Planet Scale, Modern Apps in the Cloud
George Mao discusses the five stages of maturity for building a planet-scale, global, and highly available architecture using fully serverless, cloud-native services (GCP/AWS).
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Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required
Louis Ryan discusses the evolution of networking for applications. Learn how to overcome the "Big IP" problem and the SPOF of "Big Proxy" by adopting identity-oriented and repeatable network controls.
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Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust
Emma Yuan Fang discusses how to apply Zero Trust principles to secure the software supply chain and CI/CD pipeline, detailing mitigation for major attacks like SolarWinds and dependency confusion.