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Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development
Spencer Judge explains how Temporal uses a shared Rust core to build multi-language SDKs. He shares practical advice on handling type conversion, async bridging, and memory management.
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The Time it Wasn't DNS
Sean Klein explains how Azure handles massive outages using modern incident analysis. Moving past the "Five Whys," he shares how systemic factors—not operator error—caused the 2023 global WAN outage.
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Write-Ahead Intent Log: a Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel explain why they outgrew traditional CDC at scale. They share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) using a proxy layer to decouple data replication.
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Automating the Web with MCP: Infra that Doesn’t Break
Paul Klein explains how to automate the web with MCP. He shares architectural strategies for running multi-tenant, cloud-hosted Chromium sandboxes to power AI browsing agents.
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Building and Scaling UI Systems for Internal Tools at Meta
Meta frontend engineer Cindy Zhang explains how a lean team scaled an internal UI design system to over 10,000 tools, sharing technical strategies for monorepo codemods and community intake.
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Confidently Automating Changes across a Diverse Fleet
Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer explains how the company is automating fleet-wide code changes and migrations at scale, driving adoption timelines down from months to mere days with confidence.
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Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
Netflix Engineers Vidhya Arvind and Shawn Liu discuss the pillars of safe, large-scale data deletion. They explain strategies to eliminate data ghosts and manage tombstone resource contention.
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The Human Toll of Incidents & Ways to Mitigate it
Kyle Lexmond discusses the human side of major system failures. He shares psychological insights and architectural tactics for surviving high-pressure incident rooms.
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From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – at the Same Startup
Trisha Ballakur explains how to transition from hands-on software engineering to founder and C-suite roles. She shares tactical lessons on customer discovery, delegation, and leveraging open source.
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Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads
Joseph Stein explains how to build a highly available private AI cloud. He shares blueprints on scaling vLLM on enterprise GPUs, implementing gateway guardrails, and optimizing batch workloads.
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The Ironies of A^2 I^2
J. Paul Reed explains the "ironies of automation" and AI in incident response. He discusses how reliance on AI can erode manual skills and camouflage system failures during high-stakes outages.
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Powering the Future: Building Your GenAI Infrastructure Stack
Merrin Kurian discusses Intuit’s GenOS, a generative AI operating system powering agents for 100M users. She explains the transition from chat assistants to "done-for-you" autonomous experiences.
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