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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.

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How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

Nicholas Herring shares how EVE Online tackles distributed tracing and observability across a 20-year-old MMO architecture. He discusses leveraging head-based, dynamic exponential moving average (EMA), and deterministic sampling techniques to maintain high system fidelity, control telemetry costs, and avoid performance degradation under high-throughput real-time game simulations.

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When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies

Physical data layout is one of the most consequential decisions in lakehouse engineering. The author compares Liquid Clustering, ZOrdering, and partitioning across four workload types on Delta Lake, uncovering two undocumented failure modes that likely affect production systems today and offering a decision framework for choosing the right layout strategy.

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The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Gjertsen, founder of Built and author of Minimum Viable Manager, about the three foundational skills every first-time manager needs, how to build trust and give effective feedback, and why human leadership skills matter even more in the age of AI.

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Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Matthew Liste explains the 12 core principles of building scalable, reliable platforms for enterprise tech teams. From avoiding technical debt and managing deprecation to building a strong engineering culture, Liste discusses how to design infrastructure platforms that reduce complexity, streamline developer workflows, and deliver long-term value for senior architects and engineering leaders.

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Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments

Alexandre Rafalovitch overviews the tools and techniques that help with resolving problems that arise in production environments including common problems and rapid root cause determination methods.

Alexandre Rafalovitch
on Mar 06, 2007

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Distributed Caching Essential Lessons

Cameron Purdy shows how to improve performance via caching architectures to reduce database load & clustered caching to provide transparent fail-over.

Cameron Purdy
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Architecting Toronto.com with ASP.NET

Toronto.Com attracts over 700,000 visitors a month. Built in 1997, the old technology was expensive and time-consuming to maintain. Scott takes us through what it took to modernize this site to .NET.

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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies

The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

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Maintaining Java Apps in Production Environments

Distributed Caching Essential Lessons

Architecting Toronto.com with ASP.NET

ZCS Command Injection via SNMP Handlers Enables Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Olson and Söderqvist Discuss Valkey’s Evolution and Future Past Caching Use Cases at OSS EU

Technological Sovereignty Requires Choice, Skills, and Support, Panelists Say During OSS EU

How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development

Github Migrates Copilot Runtime to Rust with AI-Assisted Rewrite

The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment

The Reinvention of the Dev Team

How to Develop Software Engineering Skills in the Age of AI

Production Patterns for Agents, Evals, and LLM Costs: QCon AI New York 2026

When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies

You Can't Trust Your AI Bill. And Neither Can I

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