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Development

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

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.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

A Primer on AI for Architects with Anthony Alford

This episode provides an overview of the real-world technologies involved in the umbrella phrase Artificial Intelligence. Anthony Alford explains just enough about machine learning, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, and other AI terms which today’s software architects need to be able to discuss.

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Culture & Methods

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

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.