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Development

Tidy First? Kent Beck on Refactoring

Kent Beck discusses dealing with refactoring.

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Architecture & Design

Tales of Kafka at Cloudflare: Lessons Learnt on the Way to 1 Trillion Messages

Cloudflare uses Kafka clusters to decouple microservices and communicate the creation, change or deletion of various resources via protobuf, a common data format in a fault-tolerant manner. The authors suggest investing in metrics for problem detection, prioritizing clear SDK documentation, and balancing flexibility and simplicity for standardized pipelines.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

Operationalizing Responsible AI in Practice

Mehrnoosh Sameki discusses approaches to responsible AI and demonstrates how open source and cloud integrated ML help data scientists and developers to understand and improve ML models better.

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Culture & Methods

Minimising the Impact of Machine Learning on our Climate

This article introduces the field of green software engineering, showing the Green Software Foundation’s Software Carbon Intensity Specification, which is used to estimate the carbon footprint of software, and discusses ideas on how to make machine learning greener. It aims to give you the tools to take an active part in the climate solution

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DevOps

DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations

Adrian Cockcroft defines terminology and introduces the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems.