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Development

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How to Use Apache Spark to Craft a Multi-Year Data Regression Testing and Simulations Framework

Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on multi-year worth of data. He shares insights into why Apache Spark was the choice for creating such a system and how it fits in the "traditional" engineering practices.

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Architecture & Design

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Architecting Planet Scale, Modern Apps in the Cloud

George Mao shares a deep dive into evolving a basic web application to a planet-scale, global architecture. He walks through five stages of maturity, focusing on adding enterprise-grade security, achieving global high availability and disaster recovery, optimizing content delivery costs with CDNs, and implementing globally consistent persistence using serverless technologies.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Securing AI Assistants: Strategies and Practices for Protecting Data

Andra Lezza explains the criticality of data security for AI copilots, detailing the OWASP AI Exchange threat model and the OWASP Top 10 LLM risks. She reviews two copilot architectures - independent (single domain) and integrated (multi-tenant) - listing specific threats, controls, and best practices like granular authorization, templates, and DevSecOps to secure the entire AI data supply chain.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Peter Hunter & Elena Stojmilova share Open GI's journey from a slow, legacy monolith to a cloud-native SaaS platform. They detail how adopting Team Topologies and a decentralized architectural approach empowered teams. Key practices discussed include utilizing Domain-Driven Design to create a Context Map, implementing the Advice Process with Architectural Principles, and more.

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DevOps

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Overload Protection: The Missing Pillar of Platform Engineering

Overload protection is often overlooked in platform engineering, leaving teams to create inconsistent, fragile fixes. Centralized rate limits, quotas, adaptive controls, and clear visibility give services predictable ways to handle traffic spikes, reduce reliability debt, and prevent cascading failures across systems.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Mary Poppendieck Introduces the Book "Leading Lean Software Development"

Mary Poppendieck Introduces the Book "Leading Lean Software Development"

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Mary Poppendieck (poppendieck.com) teaches and consults worldwide on Lean principles for software. Her approach identifies real business value and enables product teams to realize that value.

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Agile 2009 is an exciting international industry conference that presents the latest techniques, technologies, attitudes and first-hand experience, from both a management and development perspective, for successful Agile software development.

Feb 10, 2010

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