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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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So You’ve Decided to Do a Technical Migration

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and tooling to setting measurable milestones. Koonin shares vital lessons on balancing technical debt with feature work and provides a framework for deciding if a migration is truly worth the effort.

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AI Infrastructure

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From Symptom Checkers to Smart Chatbots: The Role of AI in Virtual Care

Andre Ribeiro discusses the architecture of Healthily’s AI symptom checker. He explains how Bayesian inference and RAG models bridge the gap between medical insights and confident patient action.

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Culture & Methods

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Achieve Optimal Efficiency for Your Developer Experience Teams

Fabien Deshayes discusses the strategies behind Monzo’s Developer Velocity squad. He explains the "Platform as a Product" mindset, emphasizing the need for engineers with product acumen and tenure. He shares actionable frameworks for measuring DevEx impact through time, money, and cognitive load, demonstrating how a small, focused team can drive massive results in a regulated environment.

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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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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Nada Amin on Scala DSLs with Lightweight Modular Staging and Compiling to JavaScript

Nada Amin on Scala DSLs with Lightweight Modular Staging and Compiling to JavaScript

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Nada Amin is a PhD student at EPFL, in the programming methods laboratory (LAMP) led by Martin Odersky. Previously, she was a software engineer at Google, in the Gmail and Closure compiler teams. She holds bachelor and master degrees in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Scala Days is the premier event for Scala enthusiasts, researchers, and practitioners. Scala is a general-purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional programming.

Jun 18, 2012

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