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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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Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies

The article shares goals and strategies for scaling cloud and distributed applications, focusing on lessons learned from cloud migration at Chase.com at JP Morgan Chase. The discussion centers on three primary goals and the strategies addressing the goals, concluding how these approaches were achieved in practice. For those managing large-scale systems, these lessons provide valuable guidance!

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AI Infrastructure

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GenAI Security: Defending Against Deepfakes and Automated Social Engineering

In this episode, QCon AI New York 2025 Chair Wes Reisz speaks with Reken CEO and Google Trust & Safety founder Shuman Ghosemajumder about the erosion of digital trust. They explore how deepfakes and automated social engineering are scaling cybercrime and argues defenders must move beyond default trust, utilizing behavioral telemetry and game theory to counter attacks that simulate human behavior.

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Culture & Methods

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Empathy Driven Platforms: You Build It, Let’s Run It Together

Erin Doyle explains the evolution from siloed IT Ops to the Platform Team model, revealing why the "You Build It, You Run It" principle created new cognitive load. She shares the Empathy-Driven Platforms strategy - the ultimate attack against engineering roadblocks. Discover ways platform teams can build empathy, foster psychological safety, and adopt a product mindset.

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DevOps

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Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust

Emma Yuan Fang explains the Zero Trust mindset required to combat modern software supply chain attacks. She details security controls for dependency management, including SBOM (Software Bill of Materials), artifact signing, Git commit signing, and CI/CD hardening. Learn how to implement security gating, enforce policies as code, and manage secrets across your build and runtime environments.

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QCon AI New York 2025

Go from AI demos to real engineering impact. Learn to embed LLMs, govern & scale securely.

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Learn what works in AI, architecture, data, security & FinTech.

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Learn how leading engineering teams run AI in production—reliably, securely, and at scale.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Glen Ford on Cargo Cult Agile

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Glen Ford is CTO at Beamly. With nearly 20 years of experience he has worked in various industries including Defence, Telecommunications, Gaming and Media. Most recently at Unibet and BBC R&D he has a passion for problem solving, delivering under pressure and building great teams.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

May 23, 2016

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