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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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Transforming Life Sciences: AI, Vibe Coding, and Drug Development Acceleration

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Satish Kothapalli about the transformative impact of AI and vibe coding in life sciences software development, the acceleration of drug development timelines, and the evolving roles of developers in an AI-augmented environment.

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DevOps

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Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required

Louis Ryan shares a compelling vision for modern cloud native hybrid networking. He critiques primitive network abstractions (the "Big IP" problem) and rigid security policies that rot and cause SPOFs. Discover how architects can elevate network functionality, bake in identity (mTLS/PKI), and leverage composability to achieve repeatable policy enforcement everywhere their applications run.

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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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QCon London 2026

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

Early Bird ends Dec 9.

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

Launch pricing ends Dec 9.

InfoQ Homepage Interviews Mary and Tom Poppendieck on Lean Software

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Mary and Tom Poppendieck on Lean Software

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Mary and Tom Poppendieck, http://www.poppendieck.com teach and consult worldwide on Lean principles for software. Their practical, customer-focused approach to software development identifies real business value and enables product teams to realize that value. Mary has managed solutions for both operations and new product development. Tom is an enterprise analyst, architect, and agile mentor.

About the conference

Lean Software and Systems Conference 2010 — the place to learn about Lean, Pull Systems and Kanban. Understand how established industrial engineering theory can apply to software development process. The conference will assist organizations that depend on software – from start-ups to those that build complex, software intensive products, systems & services – with the application of Lean Thinking throughout the enterprise.

Jun 01, 2010

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