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Development

The Many Facets of “Identity”

Radia Perlman describes what aspects of identity and authentication blockchain might address, and compares a “blockchain“ approach with what is deployed today.

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Architecture & Design

The Joy of Building Large Scale Systems

Suhail Patel discusses the art and practice of building systems from core principles with a focus on how this can be done in practice within teams and organisations.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

PostgresML: Leveraging Postgres as a Vector Database for AI

Montana Low provides an understanding of how Postgres can be used as a vector database for AI and how it can be integrated into your existing application stack.

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Culture & Methods

Tech's Carbon Footprint: Understanding and Tackling the Impact of Tech on the Climate Crisis

Paul Lawson discusses the components of a tech carbon footprint, how cloud providers are tackling the problem of carbon emissions, and what the future of the cloud might look like.

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DevOps

From Monitoring to Observability: eBPF Chaos

Michael Friedrich discusses the learning steps with eBPF and traditional metrics monitoring and future Observability data collection, storage and visualization.