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Effective Practices for Coding with a Chat-Based AI

In this article, we explore how AI agents are reshaping software development and the impact they have on a developer’s workflow. We introduce a practical approach to staying in control while working with these tools by adopting key best practices from the discipline of software architecture, including defining an implementation plan, splitting tasks, and so on.

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Architecture & Design

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Building the Middle Tier and Doing Software Migrations: a Conversation with Rashmi Venugopal

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Rashmi Venugopal about two topics. The first is how the middle-tier creates the application from the raw materials in the back-end, and how the front-end uses the middle-tier to present a meaningful workflow to the user. The second is how to manage the usually inevitable software migration that results from a successful software product.

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AI Infrastructure

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Mandy Gu on Generative AI (GenAI) Implementation, User Profiles and Adoption of LLMs

In this podcast, Mandy Gu from Wealthsimple discusses how to establish AI programs in organizations and implement Generative AI (GenAI) initiatives, and the relationship between user profiles and adoption of LLMs.

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Culture & Methods

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Inflection Points in Engineering Productivity as Amazon Grew 30x

Carlos Arguelles discusses pivotal inflection points throughout Amazon's monumental growth. He explains how significant operational crises, exponential engineer growth, and market shifts drove crucial investments in engineering productivity and foundational infrastructure, offering valuable lessons for senior developers and leaders.

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DevOps

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Ceph RBD Turns 15: A Story of Open Source Creation

Fifteen years ago, Ceph RBD began as a community-driven idea that grew into essential infrastructure powering today's cloud platforms. This insider story from Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub reveals how two developers started a distributed storage that now supports OpenStack and Kubernetes through transparent, collaborative development.

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Ari Zilka founded Terracotta in 2003 and is the company’s CTO. Combining business and technology leadership, Ari was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accel Partners and worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He was Chief Architect at Walmart.com. In the mid 1990s, Ari invented a new object relational database that still exceeds the capabilities and performance of database technology today.