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Kotlin is *Way* More Than Just Android

Justin Lee goes over a number of frameworks and libraries available for Kotlin development and not once have to touch the Android emulator.

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Architecture & Design

Cyber Security with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard

On this episode of the InfoQ Podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard about cybersecurity. Understanding security is very similar to understanding software architecture, with general concepts applicable to everyone, and specific needs that depend on your situation. The discussion covers roles and responsibilities, DevSecOps, and the current and future state of cloud-native security

The Next Evolution of the Database Sharding Architecture

In this article, author Juan Pan discusses the data sharding architecture patterns in a distributed database system. She explains how Apache ShardingSphere project solves the data sharding challenges. Also discussed are two practical examples of how to create a distributed database and an encrypted table with DistSQL.

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Culture & Methods

How the Financial Times Approaches Engineering Enablement

Companies need teams working on infrastructure, tooling and platforms; the way they work has to change so that they do not become a bottleneck. These teams need to be about enabling product teams to deliver business value. Investment in this area pays off as it speeds up many other teams and allows product-team engineers to focus on solving business problems that provide value to the organisation.

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DevOps

Panel: Observability and Understandability

Jason Yee, John Egan, Ben Sigelman discuss their approaches and preferred methods to get impactful results in incident management, distributed tracing, and chaos engineering.