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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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Where Architects Sit in the Era of AI

As AI evolves from tool to collaborator, architects must shift from manual design to meta-design. This article introduces the "Three Loops" framework (In, On, Out) to help navigate this transition. It explores how to balance oversight with delegation, mitigate risks like skill atrophy, and design the governance structures that keep AI-augmented systems safe and aligned with human intent.

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AI Infrastructure

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Lessons Learned From Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Karthik Ramgopal and Daniel Hewlett discuss the evolution of AI at LinkedIn, from simple prompt chains to a sophisticated distributed agent platform. They explain the transition to a supervisor-sub-agent model that enables parallel development and modular quality evaluation. and share a blueprint for building resilient, high-scale agentic systems.

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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 Esther Derby on Language, Communication and Change

Esther Derby on Language, Communication and Change

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Esther Derby started her career as a programmer and over the years has worn many hats including business owner, internal consultant and manager. She has spent the last 25 years helping companies design their environment, culture and human dynamics for optimum success. She is the co-author of 2 books: Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great and Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management

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Each year Agile Alliance brings together attendees, speakers, authors, luminaries, and industry analysts from around the world in a one-of-a-kind conference. The Conference is considered the premier Agile event of the year, and provides a week-long opportunity to engage in wide-open interaction, collaboration and sharing of ideas with peers and colleagues within the global Agile community.

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