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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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Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io

Somtochi Onyekwere explains the architecture of Corrosion, a distributed system designed for low-latency state replication. She shares how Fly.io transitioned from Consul to a gossip-based SQLite solution to handle global machine data. By discussing CRDTs, the SWIM protocol, and QUIC, she shares how to build resilient systems that prioritize speed while managing the complexities of CAP theorem.

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AI Infrastructure

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The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag

This special edition of The InfoQ eMag, contains a comprehensive collection of our popular InfoQ Trends Reports from 2025, a year with both evolution and revolution within the landscapes of technology, software development trends. This collection does not just reflect the past year's technological trends. We aspire to use it as a guide for future exploration and innovation.

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Culture & Methods

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Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers

Beth Anderson discusses the "power distance index" and its critical role in communication. Using the Korean Air Flight 801 tragedy as a case study, she explains the dangers of hierarchy-driven silence. She shares actionable frameworks for building the four stages of psychological safety, implementing reverse mentoring, and using PRs as tools for knowledge sharing rather than gatekeeping.

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DevOps

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Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads

Bruno Borges discusses a paradigm shift in performance management: moving from manual tuning to automated SRE agents. He explains how to leverage the USE and jPDM methodologies alongside LLMs to reduce MTTR from hours to seconds. By utilizing MCP tools for real-time diagnostics and memory dump analysis, he shares how engineering leaders can scale systems while meeting strict objectives.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Christopher Avery on Responsibility

Christopher Avery on Responsibility

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Popular speaker, author, and mentor Christopher Avery PhD, is committed to redefining responsibility in all societies throughout the world. Christopher broke new ground with his pragmatic and insightful research on individual and shared responsibility in the workplace. His book Teamwork Is An Individual Skill describes the principles.

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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.

Nov 19, 2009

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