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Binary Size Matters: the Challenges of Fitting Complex Applications in Storage-Constrained Devices

This article explores developing software for microcontrollers in C or C++, where constraints are the limited amount of volatile memory and the embedded hardware platform on which the software runs. It shows how to adopt languages like C++ while optimizing for binary size due to stringent hardware constraints, and trade off between runtime efficiency and binary size in architecture decisions.

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Architecture & Design

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Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture

Rashmi Venugopal explains the core principles of renovating legacy software architecture. This talk addresses why legacy systems arise, their symptoms (complexity, degraded experience), and offers actionable strategies for modernization. Discover how to adopt an evolutionary approach, implement incremental changes, prioritize deprecation, and design your organization for successful renovation.

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AI Infrastructure

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Beyond the Gang of Four: Practical Design Patterns for Modern AI Systems

In this article, author Rahul Suresh discusses emerging AI patterns in the areas of prompting, responsible AI, user experience, AI-Ops, and optimization, with code examples for each design pattern.

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Culture & Methods

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How to Scale Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level

This article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences. It maps out career ladders, digs into promotion patterns and the key behaviors that consistently help high-performing engineers to reinvent themselves, and introduces the concept of "staff projects" which top performers use to drive their careers forward.

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DevOps

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Implement the EU Cyber Resilience Act's Requirements to Strengthen Your Software Project

Eddie Knight, OSPO lead at Sonatype, discusses how the EU Cyber Resilience Act can help with improving your software project’s security and in the same time to slow down the alarming acceleration of software supply chain attacks.

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Kevlin is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. He has been a columnist for various magazines and web sites, including Better Software, The Register, Application Development Advisor, Java Report and the C/C++ Users Journal, co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, and editor of the 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know.

About the conference

QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

Jun 02, 2011

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