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AWS Lambda under the Hood
Mike Danilov, a senior principal engineer at AWS, presented on AWS Lambda and what is under the hood during QCon San Francisco 2023. This article represents the talk, which will start with an introduction to Lambda itself to outline the key concepts of the service and its fundamentals, which will facilitate a deep dive into the understanding of the system.
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Getting Technical Decision Buy-In Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Making large, important technical decisions is a critical aspect of a senior individual contributor's role. This article examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework developed in the 1970s, and adapted it for making technical and non-technical decisions both large and small.
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Generative AI: Shaping a New Future for Fraud Prevention
This article explores how generative AI affects fraud detection by reducing false positives and dynamically adapting to changing fraud patterns. This combination offers a potent preventive solution when integrated with machine learning. The efficacy and scalability of fraud prevention initiatives are enhanced by this innovative approach.
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Multiplying Engineering Productivity in the Face of Constant Change
Leaders know that they need to support organizational efficiency, but how they do that can vary based on the situation and context of the organization. Learning how to utilize a few key leadership frameworks in certain environments can help maintain the appropriate level of support, urgency, and independence when situations shift.
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Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency
This article focuses on implementing data residency strategies for a positive stakeholder experience. It underscores the need to diversify data locations, driven by motivations like disaster recovery and geo-redundancy. The core principle is data distribution, ensuring specific sets reside in distinct regions without overlap - a practice termed data residency.
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How to Deal with Complexity in Product Development by Using Solution-Focused Coaching
In this article, you will discover how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management. Integrating specific coaching principles can enhance the quality of your conversations by guiding dialogue to uncover actionable insights, foster trust, boost collaboration, and drive clarity in your objectives.
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Generative AI and Organizational Resilience
Generative AI will profoundly transform communication and information sharing over the next decade, but the change will be uneven across industries and roles. Organizations should empower workers to use AI augmentation thoughtfully, while building literacy on capabilities and limits. A balanced, conscientious integration, using iterations and customer feedback, will produce the best outcomes.
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Orchestrating Resilience Building Modern Asynchronous Systems
In this article, we will discuss what problems we had to solve at Twilio to efficiently build a resilient and scalable asynchronous system to handle a complex workflow and the advantages we got from adopting a Workflow Orchestration solution, including abstracting away state management and out-of-the-box support for retries, observability, and audibility.
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The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals
Don’t get stuck with overwhelmed systems that can cause an outage, like what happened with Taylor Swift concert tickets. Build organizational resilience to incidents through improved coordination and communication during the response, and blameless reviews, root cause analysis, and insightful communication afterward to enable meaningful change.
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Tips on How Staff Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Staff engineers can influence behaviors during and after incidents by modeling transparency and questioning assumptions to strengthen engineering culture. As incident commanders, they can coordinate workstreams, communicate with stakeholders, and prevent responder burnout. In retrospectives, staff engineers can improve model root cause analysis to improve underlying cultural issues.
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Write More, Talk Less: Building Organizational Resilience through Documentation and InnerSource
Better documentation and knowledge sharing creates transparency that aids onboarding, prevents turnover disruption, and withstands reorganizations. Different practices can help, such as communicating asynchronously, creating incentives for documentation, making docs discoverable, understanding team members' preferences, and providing dedicated writing time. And maybe InnerSource can help too.
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Agile Coaching as a Path toward a Deeper Meaning of Work and Life
In this article, we take a deeper look at the practice and purpose of agile coaching. We find out why interactions are the most essential focus in agile coaching - and also the basis of learning and professional development for the agile coaches themselves. We also learn how focusing on our existing strengths and situations can help us discover our authentic purpose in work and life.