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Achieving a Culture That Works: Inclusive Leadership that Drives Lasting Success
Matthew Card explains how inclusive leadership drives success. He shares a framework for building trust, psychological safety, and personal resilience to create high-performing engineering cultures.
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Fast Eventual Consistency: inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io
Somtochi Onyekwere discusses Corrosion, Fly.io's eventual consistent service discovery tool. She explains how the networking team leverages SQLite and CRDTs to replicate data across 800+ nodes.
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How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton explains how Man Group built ArcticDB, a serverless database connecting directly to S3. He discusses using CRDTs to manage global state and leveraging immutable trees for atomicity.
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From Confusion to Clarity: Advanced Observability Strategies for Media Workflows at Netflix
Naveen Mareddy and Sujana Sooreddy explain how Netflix monitors massive media encoding workflows. They discuss scaling to 1M+ trace spans and using Flink to unlock real-time business insights.
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Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant
Karthik Ramgopal and Daniel Hewlett explain LinkedIn’s shift to agentic AI. They share how a modular supervisor-sub-agent architecture and a centralized skill registry power the new Hiring Assistant.
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Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers
Beth Anderson explains how power distance and psychological safety impact engineering teams. She shares strategies for active listening and reverse mentoring to drive inclusive technical excellence.
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Ecologies and Economics of Language AI in Practice
Jade Abbott explains how to build sustainable AI using "Little LMs." She discusses environmental impacts, linguistic justice, and technical optimizations like quantization and model distillation.
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Lessons Learned from Shipping AI-Powered Healthcare Products
Clara Matos shares lessons from shipping AI in healthcare at Sword Health. She discusses building guardrails, utilizing LLM-as-a-judge evals, and optimizing RAG to ensure safety and reliability.
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Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies from chase.com, #1 Banking Portal in the US
Durai Arasan shares how Chase.com achieved a 71% latency reduction. He explains strategies for efficient scaling, multi-region resilience, and automated "repaving" to secure large-scale systems.
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Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
Peter Hunter & Elena Stojmilova share how Open GI transformed its legacy platform to a cloud-native SaaS using Team Topologies and decentralized architecture practices.
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Securing AI Assistants: Strategies and Practices for Protecting Data
Andra Lezza reviews the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and contrasts security controls for independent vs. integrated copilot architectures.
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Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required
Louis Ryan discusses the evolution of networking for applications. Learn how to overcome the "Big IP" problem and the SPOF of "Big Proxy" by adopting identity-oriented and repeatable network controls.