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Scaling Cloud and Distributed Applications: Lessons and Strategies
The article shares goals and strategies for scaling cloud and distributed applications, focusing on lessons learned from cloud migration at Chase.com at JP Morgan Chase. The discussion centers on three primary goals and the strategies addressing the goals, concluding how these approaches were achieved in practice. For those managing large-scale systems, these lessons provide valuable guidance!
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Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures across Multi-Cloud Boundaries
Multi-cloud event-driven architectures are now essential, not optional. With most organizations already multi-cloud, success depends on optimizing latency, ensuring resilience, and managing event consistency across providers. Key practices include code-level tuning, robust recovery policies, duplicate prevention, observability, and strong team readiness.
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Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems
Late projects. Architectures that drift from their original design. Code that mysteriously evolves into something nobody planned. These persistent problems in software development often stem not from technical failures, but from forces we pretend don't exist—reward systems that incentivize the wrong behaviors, organizational structures that ignore domain boundaries, and human dynamics.
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Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from over Twenty Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure
Building resilient platforms requires understanding the art and science of creating infrastructure that others depend on for critical applications. This perspective applies to anyone who builds software consumed by others at scale. Whether developing infrastructure platforms, software development platforms, or messaging systems, principles address how to build software that others consume at scale
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Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, centralized architectural decision-making can become a bottleneck to delivery performance and innovation. Through stories from our own journey, we’ll share how decentralizing decisions improved alignment across teams, empowered faster decision-making, and fostered a culture of ownership.
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Virtual Panel: How Software Engineers and Team Leaders Can Excel with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is impacting the individual work of software developers, how professionals work together in teams, and how software teams are being managed. In this panel, we'll discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping software development, and what mindset and skills are required for software developers and engineering leaders to become adaptable and resilient in the age of AI.
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One Network: Cloud-Agnostic Service and Policy-Oriented Network Architecture
Bringing together software infrastructure leads to faster development time and easy control of large, spread-out systems through clear rules. In this QCon SF 2024 presentation, Anna Berenberg shared learnings and achievements when building One Network, addressing complex infrastructure layers, open-source integration, and uniform policy enforcement for improved reliability and security.
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A First-Timer’s Guide to Curating a Technical Conference Track
One first-time track host shares the process, constraints, and takeaways from building a track from scratch at QCon London 2025.
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Optimizing Search Systems: Balancing Speed, Relevance, and Scalability
Innovative software engineer focused on optimizing search performance in dynamic environments. This article highlights key strategies from our QCon San Francisco 2024 presentation, addressing challenges faced by platforms like Uber Eats in data indexing and retrieval. Our advancements ensure swift, relevant user experiences amidst ever-growing datasets.
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Building Strategic Influence as a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager
To increase your impact and grow your career, you need to be involved in conversations that happen at a greater scope than the scope you have in your current role. Being involved will give you influence over this, help you direct and maximise your impact, and also allow you to bring better context to your day job, and to those working around you.
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How Staff+ Engineers Can Develop Strategic Thinking
This article outlines a personal framework for cultivating strategic thinking at any career stage, with a focus on Staff+ engineers. Whether you're an established Staff+ engineer or someone with aspirations to grow into this role, this article offers the tools, perspectives, and insights you need to navigate your journey to greater influence and impact.
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Developer Joy: a Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity
In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, they explain how to reclaim developer satisfaction and boost output by embracing curiosity, minimizing friction, and giving ourselves a break.