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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

Continuing the Culture and Methods Trends Conversation

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Ben Linders about current trends in the culture and methods space.

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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.