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Clojure's Journey: From Simplicity to Enterprise Maturity

Jordan Miller discusses the evolution of the Clojure ecosystem, from Rich Hickey's initial vision tackling complexity to its current status as a mature enterprise solution. He explains key philosophies, highlights pivotal moments like the "Simple Made Easy" talk, and showcases the vibrant Clojure community and its innovative tools.

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Architecture & Design

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Do microservices' benefits supersede their caveats? A conversation with Sam Newman

Sam Newman, one of the pioneers of microservices, encourages architects to use distributed systems as a last resort architecture. He stresses the importance of focusing on the desired outcome and starting with monoliths, gradually evolving the architecture.

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AI Infrastructure

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Rust: a Productive Language for Writing Database Applications

Carl Lerche discusses Rust's potential as a productive language for building higher-level applications like web apps and backends, traditionally seen as performance-sensitive domains. He explains how Rust's quality benefits can translate to long-term productivity and shares practical tips and tricks for using Rust effectively.

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Culture & Methods

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How Staff+ Engineers Can Develop Strategic Thinking

This article outlines a personal framework for cultivating strategic thinking at any career stage, with a focus on Staff+ engineers. Whether you're an established Staff+ engineer or someone with aspirations to grow into this role, this article offers the tools, perspectives, and insights you need to navigate your journey to greater influence and impact.

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DevOps

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Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x

In this article, Carlos Arguelles elaborates on how engineering productivity needs a shift as organizations scale. He shares examples from his time at Google and Amazon, explaining how some architectural decisions made at these companies shaped the way they develop software. Engineering productivity investments depend on inflection points, scale, controls, data, and tooling choices.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Ric Smith on the Present and the Future of HTML 5

Ric Smith on the Present and the Future of HTML 5

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Ric Smith is Director, Business and Product Strategy, for Kaazing. Prior to joining Kaazing, he was a Principal Product Manager at Oracle. Smith is a frequent speaker at international events and has written articles featured in leading industry publications such as Java Developer's Journal and AJAX World Magazine.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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