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Not Just Memory Safety: How Rust Helps Maintain Efficient Software

Pietro Albini discusses how Rust's type system can be used to ensure correctness and ease refactorings, leveraging procedural macros to reduce code duplication, introducing parallelism, and tooling.

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Architecture & Design

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How to Make Technical Debt Your Friend

Technical debt is a popular metaphor for communicating the long-term implications of architectural decisions and trade-offs to stakeholders. By exploiting the feedback mechanism of the Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) approach, we have concluded that the technical debt metaphor is misleading because much of the so-called debt never needs to be, and in fact isn’t, repaid.

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

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Article Series: Practical Applications of Generative AI

Generative AI (GenAI) has become a major component of the artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) industry. However, using GenAI comes with challenges and risks. In the InfoQ "Practical Applications of Generative AI" article series, we present real-world solutions and hands-on practices from leading GenAI practitioners.

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Engineering Excellence: Declan Whelan on Technical Health, Agile Practices, and Team Culture

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Declan Whelan about technical health, useful metrics, modern technical practices, code stewardship and cultural aspects of good engineering teams.

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DevOps

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Mastering Impact Analysis and Optimizing Change Release Processes

Dynamic IT professional with a proven track record in optimizing production processes and analyzing outages in complex systems handling millions of TPS. The recent CrowdStrike outage highlights the importance of continuous improvement and adherence to best practices. Passionate about elevating operational excellence through strategic reviews and effective process enhancements.

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Using Traffic Modeling to Load-Balance Netflix Traffic at Global Scale

Niosha Behnam and Sergey Fedorov discuss how Netflix shifted from geo-based DNS load-balancing to a latency-based approach, relying on real-user measurements and building a model of Netflix traffic.

Niosha Behnam Sergey Fedorov
on Dec 14, 2023

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Load Balancing is Impossible

Tyler McMullen discusses load balancing techniques and algorithms such as Randomized Least-conns, Join-Idle-Queue, and Load Interpretation.

Tyler McMullen
on Dec 31, 2016

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DevOps Patterns to Scale Web Applications using Cloud Services

Daniel Cukier shares insight in using cloud services to scale web applications, dealing with load balancing, session sharing, email, asynchronous processing, logging, monitoring, CD, RUM, etc.

Daniel Cukier
on Dec 29, 2013

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Not Just Memory Safety: How Rust Helps Maintain Efficient Software

How to Make Technical Debt Your Friend

Article Series: Practical Applications of Generative AI

Engineering Excellence: Declan Whelan on Technical Health, Agile Practices, and Team Culture

Mastering Impact Analysis and Optimizing Change Release Processes

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Using Traffic Modeling to Load-Balance Netflix Traffic at Global Scale

Load Balancing is Impossible

DevOps Patterns to Scale Web Applications using Cloud Services

Security Experts Exploit Airport Security Loophole with SQL Injection

Not Just Memory Safety: How Rust Helps Maintain Efficient Software

Elastic Returns to Open Source: Will the Community Follow?

Lyft Promotes Best Practices for Collaborative Protocol Buffers Design

How to Make Technical Debt Your Friend

How AWS Well-Architected Framework Supports Frugal Architecture

Engineering Excellence: Declan Whelan on Technical Health, Agile Practices, and Team Culture

Enabling Fast Flow in Software Organizations

Engineering Leadership: Balancing Autonomy, Growth, and Culture with Michael Gray

Article Series: Practical Applications of Generative AI

Llama 3 in Action: Deployment Strategies and Advanced Functionality for Real-World Applications

A Primer on AI for Architects with Anthony Alford

Kubernetes Autoscaler Karpenter Reaches 1.0 Milestone

Mastering Impact Analysis and Optimizing Change Release Processes

AWS CodeBuild Now Supports Mac Builds

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