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Navigating Responsible AI in the FinTech Landscape

Explore the dynamic intersection of responsible AI, regulation, and ethics in the FinTech sector. This article highlights key challenges and innovative practices as organizations navigate compliance with evolving guidelines like the EU AI Act. Discover how to balance transparency, efficiency, and risk management for sustainable AI growth in your business.

Lexy Kassan
on Nov 27, 2024
Architecture & Design

Transforming Legacy Healthcare Systems: a Journey to Cloud-Native Architecture

Discover how Livi navigated the complexities of transitioning MJog, a legacy healthcare system, to a cloud-native architecture, sharing valuable insights for successful tech modernization. Our experience illustrates that transitioning from legacy systems to cloud-based microservices is not a one-time project, but an ongoing journey.

Leander Vanderbijl
on Nov 18, 2024
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype

Justin Sheehy emphasizes that AI is code, not magic, and warns against inflated claims about AI capabilities. He urges developers to approach AI with healthy skepticism, seeking verifiable evidence and focusing on ethical practices, including addressing bias, privacy, and data integrity. Clear communication about AI’s limitations and accountable use are essential to prevent hype and misuse.

Justin Sheehy
on Nov 06, 2024
Culture & Methods

Adaptive Responses to Resiliently Handle Hard Problems in Software Operations

As engineers move into more senior positions such as Staff Engineer, Architect, or Sr Tech Lead roles, their knowledge and experience is often applied across the system. This expertise is increasingly needed for handling novel problems or designing innovative solutions to complex problems. This article discusses strategies for approaching your role as a senior member of your organization.

Laura Maguire
on Oct 23, 2024
DevOps

Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples

Scaling platform development often means absorbing cognitive burdens, but empathy is key. Understanding users beyond their immediate issues leads to better solutions. Platforms help manage growth's complexity, but a product mindset with user-centricity is vital. In his talk at QCon San Francisco 2023, David Stenglein expanded on cultivating empathy through open communication.

David Stenglein
on Sep 23, 2024
Culture & Methods

Curating Developer Experience: Practical Insights from Building a Platform Team

As a platform engineer, how do you help your customers go quicker, which aspects of developer experience should you care about and what do you actually do to curate an experience for them? This article is about curating a developer experience, it shares experiences and learnings from implementing DevEx and ideas on what platform engineers can do for development teams that use platforms.

Andy Burgin
on Sep 19, 2024
DevOps

Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI

Michael Friedrich is exploring how teams face varying levels of inefficiency in their DevSecOps processes, hindering progress and innovation. He highlights common issues like excessive debugging time and inefficient workflows, while also demonstrating how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be a powerful tool to streamline these processes and boost efficiency.

Michael Friedrich
on Sep 04, 2024
Culture & Methods

Simplicity, Speed, and Re-Use. Shipping Threads in 5 Months

In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service to compete with Twitter in a couple of months. A small team was assembled to take on that challenge, and we shipped a new social network in July. This article describes how we developed and launched the Threads app at Meta last year.

Zahan Malkani
on Aug 19, 2024
Culture & Methods

Prepare to Be Unprepared: Investing in Capacity to Adapt to Surprises in Software-Reliant Businesses

Incidents are often perceived as extraordinary aberrations, unconnected to "normal" work. For over twenty years, the field of Resilience Engineering has aimed at flipping this approach around — by understanding what makes incidents so rare (relative to when and how they do not happen) and so minor (relative to how much worse they can be) and deliberately enhancing what makes that possible.

John Allspaw
on Aug 12, 2024
Architecture & Design

Thinking Like an Architect

By explaining the roles of an architect and the concept of connecting levels, Gregor Hohpe delves into the importance of metaphors for making complex technical concepts more relatable and sketches for abstracting and capturing the essence of complex systems.

Gregor Hohpe
on Jul 29, 2024
Architecture & Design

Scaling Challenges: Productivity, Cost Efficiency, and Microservice Management

The main objective of this article is to delve into the technical complexities and strategic adjustments undertaken by Trainline. By examining challenges such as managing peak transaction volumes and orchestrating microservice architectures, we aim to uncover the valuable lessons learned and insights gained from Trainline's journey through the dynamic landscape of digital transportation platforms.

Milena Nikolic
on Jul 22, 2024
Architecture & Design

Are You Done Yet? Mastering Long-Running Processes in Modern Architectures

In this article, Bernd Ruecker explores the importance of long-running processes in various applications, particularly in distributed systems. He emphasizes the value of asynchronous communication and explores strategies like Centers of Excellence, along with visual tools like BPMN for enhancing communication and understanding. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.

Bernd Ruecker
on Jul 15, 2024