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Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples
Scaling platform development often means absorbing cognitive burdens, but empathy is key. Understanding users beyond their immediate issues leads to better solutions. Platforms help manage growth's complexity, but a product mindset with user-centricity is vital. In his talk at QCon San Francisco 2023, David Stenglein expanded on cultivating empathy through open communication.
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Curating Developer Experience: Practical Insights from Building a Platform Team
As a platform engineer, how do you help your customers go quicker, which aspects of developer experience should you care about and what do you actually do to curate an experience for them? This article is about curating a developer experience, it shares experiences and learnings from implementing DevEx and ideas on what platform engineers can do for development teams that use platforms.
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Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI
Michael Friedrich is exploring how teams face varying levels of inefficiency in their DevSecOps processes, hindering progress and innovation. He highlights common issues like excessive debugging time and inefficient workflows, while also demonstrating how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool to streamline these processes and boost efficiency.
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Simplicity, Speed, and Re-Use. Shipping Threads in 5 Months
In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service to compete with Twitter in a couple of months. A small team was assembled to take on that challenge, and we shipped a new social network in July. This article describes how we developed and launched the Threads app at Meta last year.
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Prepare to Be Unprepared: Investing in Capacity to Adapt to Surprises in Software-Reliant Businesses
Incidents are often perceived as extraordinary aberrations, unconnected to "normal" work. For over twenty years, the field of Resilience Engineering has aimed at flipping this approach around — by understanding what makes incidents so rare (relative to when and how they do not happen) and so minor (relative to how much worse they can be) and deliberately enhancing what makes that possible.
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Thinking Like an Architect
By explaining the roles of an architect and the concept of connecting levels, Gregor Hohpe delves into the importance of metaphors for making complex technical concepts more relatable and sketches for abstracting and capturing the essence of complex systems.
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Scaling Challenges: Productivity, Cost Efficiency, and Microservice Management
The main objective of this article is to delve into the technical complexities and strategic adjustments undertaken by Trainline. By examining challenges such as managing peak transaction volumes and orchestrating microservice architectures, we aim to uncover the valuable lessons learned and insights gained from Trainline's journey through the dynamic landscape of digital transportation platforms.
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Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures
In this article, Bernd Ruecker explores the importance of long-running processes in various applications, particularly in distributed systems. He emphasizes the value of asynchronous communication and explores strategies like Centers of Excellence, along with visual tools like BPMN for enhancing communication and understanding. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.
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How to Architect Software for a Greener Future
In this article, Sara Bergman shares tips, tricks, and advice on architecting software for a greener future. Bergman has been discussing this topic for several years.
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The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized
Large language models have significantly transformed the field of artificial intelligence. The fundamental innovation behind this change is surprisingly straightforward: make the models a lot bigger. With each new iteration, the capabilities of these models expand, prompting a critical question: are we moving toward a black box era where AI is controlled by a few tech monopolies?
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The Set Piece Strategy: Tackling Complexity in Serverless Applications
In this article, senior engineering manager and AWS Serverless hero Sheen Brisals examines how the characteristics of serverless such as optimization, robust availability and scalability influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces, a concept from moviemaking. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.
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Platform as a Runtime - the Next Step in Platform Engineering
As systems become larger and more complex we need to take the concepts of platform engineering to a higher level – to the code level – by creating platforms and abstractions that will reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and upgrades to the platform. Let’s move from “platform” to “Platform as a Runtime”.