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The Renaissance of Code Documentation: Introducing Code Walkthrough

The Continuous Documentation methodology is a useful paradigm that helps ensure that high-quality documentation is created, maintained, and readily available. Code Walkthroughs take the reader on a “walk” — visiting at least two stations in the code — describe flows and interactions, and often incorporate code snippets.

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Architecture & Design

James Clark on How Ballerina Handles Network Interaction, Data, and Concurrency

Charles Humble discusses the design of the Ballerina programming language with its lead designer James Clark. They discuss how the goals of the language inform a number of design choices including: the type system, error handling, the concurrency model, and the language’s built in support for visualization of program flows.

Meenakshi Kaushik and Neelima Mukiri on Responsible AI and Machine Learning Algorithm Fairness

In the podcast, Meenakshi Kaushik and Neelima Mukiri from the Cisco team speak on responsible AI and machine learning bias and how to address the biases when using ML in our applications.

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Culture & Methods

Lessons Learned from Self-Selection Reteaming at Redgate

Redgate Software runs a yearly deliberate reteaming process across engineering to alter how they invest the efforts of teams and encourage people to move towards the work they find most engaging. Self-selection reteaming is an effective and empowering method of aligning with company goals. It normalized the idea of people moving between teams for personal development and renewed sense of purpose.

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DevOps

Observing and Understanding Failures: SRE Apprentices

Tammy Bryant Butow covers practical lessons learned in the SRE Apprentices program, things she'd change and shares how to create and roll out such a program.