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Development

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What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT

Ludi Akue discusses how the tech sector’s rising emissions impact our global climate goals. Drawing from her experience as a CTO, she explains seven key lessons for implementing Green IT. She shares insights on LCA assessments, the paradox of microservices, and why FinOps doesn’t always equal green.

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Architecture & Design

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Andres Almiray on How to Release Any Software to Any OS with JReleaser

Andres Almiray, a serial open-source contributor and the creator of JReleaser, discusses the project's state, noting that the tool is usable across any ecosystem, not just Java. He also touches on the Common House Foundation's mission.

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AI Infrastructure

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Evaluating AI Agents in Practice: Benchmarks, Frameworks, and Lessons Learned

This article introduces practical methods for evaluating AI agents operating in real-world environments. It explains how to combine benchmarks, automated evaluation pipelines, and human review to measure reliability, task success, and multi-step agent behavior. The article also discusses the challenges of evaluating systems that plan, use tools, and operate across multiple interaction turns.

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Culture & Methods

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Image Processing for Automated Tests

Stefan Dirnstorfer discusses the shift from DOM-based testing to visual UI agents. He explains why LLMs often fail at precision tasks - like spotting one-pixel shifts or broken road networks - and shares how advanced image registration and "Chain-of-Thought" vision processing are essential for reliable QA. Learn why combining generative AI with classical algorithms is the future of automation.

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DevOps

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Change as Metrics: Measuring System Reliability through Change Delivery Signals

System changes are the primary driver of production incidents, making change-related metrics essential reliability signals. A minimal metric set of Change Lead Time, Change Success Rate, and Incident Leakage Rate assesses delivery efficiency and reliability, supported by actionable technical metrics and an event-centric data warehouse for unified change observability.

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David H. Hansson on the Future of Rails

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David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, a powerful open-source framework for using the programming language Ruby. As a partner at 37signals in Chicago, Hansson created Ruby on Rails to write software for their popular project-management tools like Basecamp and Backpack. He is a big proponent of opinionated software and getting real.