BT

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Write for InfoQ

Logo - Back to homepage

News Articles Presentations Podcasts Guides

Topics

Development

Featured in Development

Quantum Shift: Rewiring the Tech Landscape

Teena Idnani explains the core concepts of quantum computing, its transformative potential across industries (pharmaceuticals, finance, etc.), and the current state of quantum technology. She addresses the threats (breaking RSA encryption) and opportunities, offering practical guidance on how software developers, architects, and engineering leaders can prepare for the coming quantum revolution.

All in development

Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Changing the Model: Why and How We Re-Architected Slack

Ian Hoffman discusses Slack's architectural evolution from workspace-centric to Unified Grid. He explains scaling challenges & Enterprise Grid complexities, and shares lessons learned during this significant architectural shift, drawing insightful parallels to the history of astronomy and emphasizing the importance of questioning foundational assumptions in software development.

All in architecture-design

AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

LLM and Generative AI for Sensitive Data - Navigating Security, Responsibility, and Pitfalls in Highly Regulated Industries

Stefania Chaplin and Azhir Mahmood explain how to navigate the complexities of AI in highly regulated industries. They discuss MLOps pipelines, data security, evolving legislation (GDPR, EU AI Act), and the critical frameworks for responsible, secure, and explainable AI. Learn practical prevention techniques, XAI methods, and future trends in AI for cybersecurity and beyond.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Taming Flaky Tests: Trisha Gee on Developer Productivity and Testing Best Practices

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Trisha Gee about the challenges and importance of addressing flaky tests, their impact on developer productivity and morale, best practices for testing, and broader concepts of measuring and improving developer productivity.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

Featured in DevOps

Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.

All in devops

Events

Helpful links

Choose your language

InfoQ Dev Summit Boston

Learn how senior software developers are solving the challenges you face. Register now with early bird tickets.

InfoQ Dev Summit Munich

Learn practical solutions to today's most pressing software challenges. Register now with early bird tickets.

QCon San Francisco

Explore insights, real-world best practices and solutions in software development & leadership. Register now.

QCon AI New York

Learn how leading engineering teams run AI in production-reliably, securely, and at scale. Register now.

InfoQ Homepage Enablement Content on InfoQ

News

RSS Feed

Culture & Methods

Learning from Big Tech’s Engineering Productivity Metrics

Gergely Orosz and Abi Noda published a Pragmatic Engineer article titled Measuring Developer Productivity: Real-World Examples. InfoQ reports on insights from Noda’s survey of engineering metrics used across 17 well-known tech giants. Noda found that rather than wholesale adoption of frameworks like DORA, leading teams use a mix of org-specific qualitative and quantitative metrics.

Rafiq Gemmail
on Jan 22, 2024
Culture & Methods

BBC’s Enablement Team Principles Focus on Openness, Collaboration, and Respect

At QCon London BBC shared the five enablement principles paving the road for their teams towards improved development and release processes. Steph Egan shared techniques, challenges and learnings from her team’s journey, with the major takeaway being that the principles have almost nothing to do with the tools themselves.

Olimpiu Pop
on Mar 30, 2023

BT