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Development

From Mainframes to Microservices - the Journey of Building and Running Software

Suhail Patel discusses the platforms and software patterns that made microservices popular, and how virtual machines and containers have influenced how software is built and run at scale today.

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Architecture & Design

Understanding Architectures for Multi-Region Data Residency

Alex Strachan discusses challenges to build multi-region data storages, understanding why and when a business needs to do this, who are the real stakeholders, and who owns what.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

Large Language Models for Code: Exploring the Landscape, Opportunities, and Challenges

Loubna Ben Allal discusses Large Language Models (LLMs), exploring the current developments of these models, how they are trained, and how they can be leveraged with custom codebases.

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Culture & Methods

Using Behaviour Stories to Manage Cultural Debt

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Ahmad Fahmy about using behaviour stories to promote culture change in fractured organisations.

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DevOps

The Three As of Building A+ Platforms: Acceleration, Autonomy, and Accountability

Platform engineering is not just a technical problem to solve nor an end in itself. In this article, I will share key lessons I have learned while building and delivering three platforms over the last two decades from VMware and Stripe to Apollo GraphQL, including where we got stuck, how we unblocked ourselves, and what ultimately led to the right outcomes for our users and the business.