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Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process for Tech Decisions
The analytic hierarchy process uses pairwise comparisons and scoring for criteria between the alternatives to give insights into what the best option is and why. John Riviello spoke about applying the analytic hierarchy process to decide what JavaScript framework to use at QCon New York 2023.
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Seven Essential Tracks at QCon London 2024: GenAI, FinTech, Platform Engineering & More!
InfoQ’s international software development conference, QCon London, returns on April 8-10, 2024. The conference will feature 15 carefully curated tracks and 60 technical talks over 3 days.
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How Growing Tech Engineers Enables Growing Yourself as a Leader
It’s challenging to grow into a new role when you are still holding on to what you have been good at and really love, and what you’ve been doing in your previous role. By attaching to everything you used to do, you are also depriving the people around you of an opportunity to grow and learn to master those skills and take on those responsibilities too.
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Durable Execution for Control Planes: Sergey Bykov at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, Sergey Bykov, an SDE at Temporal Technologies, presented on Durable Execution for Control Planes: Building Temporal Cloud on Temporal. In his talk, Bykov introduced the concept of Durable Execution with a real-world example of how his company uses it to build the Control Plane for Temporal Cloud, including lessons learned.
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QCon SF 2023: How Netflix Really Uses Java by Paul Bakker
Paul Bakker, Java Platform at Netflix, Java Champion, and co-author of "Java 9 Modularity," presented How Netflix Really Uses Java at the 2023 QCon San Francisco conference. Bakker described the evolution of the architecture behind their movie application, introduced the GraphQL Federation, and described how Java is used at Netflix that includes plans to support JDK 21.
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Java News Roundup: New JEP Candidates, Azul, Gradle 8.4, QCon San Francisco, Devoxx Belgium
This week's Java roundup for October 2nd, 2023, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 22, Azul Code Inventory, Spring Shell 3.1.4, 3.0.8 and 2.1.13, JNoSQL 1.0.2, Quarkus 3.4.2, Micronaut 4.1.3, Hibernate Search 6.2.2, PrimeFaces 12.0.6, 11.0.12, 10.0.19 and 8.0.24, Maven 3.9.5, Camel 3.20.7, Tomcat Native 1.2.39, Testcontainers 1.19.1, JBang 0.111.0, Gradle 8.4, QCon San Francisco and Devoxx Belgium.
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QCon SF 2023: Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno by Ryan Dahl
Ryan Dahl, Co-Founder and CEO at Deno and Software Engineer best known for creating Node.js, presented “Streamlining Cloud Development with Deno” at QCon San Francisco 2023. Dahl introduced Deno, an open source next-generation JavaScript runtime, and discussed the benefits of using this framework. Dahl also provided numerous demos on how to build and deploy cloud applications with Deno.
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A Modern Compute Stack for Scaling Large AI, ML, & LLM Workloads at QCon SF
Jules Damji, a lead developer advocate at Anyscale Inc., discussed the difficulties data scientists encounter when managing infrastructure for machine learning models. He emphasized the necessity for a framework that supports the latest machine learning libraries, is easily manageable, and can scale to accommodate large datasets and models. Damji introduced Ray as a potential solution.
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QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 3: Architecting the Cloud, Deep Tech, Frontend Trends, Org Resilience
The 17th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day Three, scheduled on October 4th, 2023, included a keynote address by Will Larson and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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Combating AI-Generated Fake Images with JavaScript Libraries, by Kate Sills at QCon San Francisco
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference Kate Sills gave a talk about combating AI-generated fake images using existing JavaScript libraries. She advocated for using cryptographic timestamping to ensure the time photos were taken, and using digital signatures to verify that the image was made by a legitimate source.
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QCon San Francisco 2023 Day 2: Design for Resilience, Platform Engineering, Modern ML, JVM Trends
The 17th annual QCon San Francisco conference was held at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco in San Francisco, California. This five-day event, organized by C4Media, consists of three days of presentations and two days of workshops. Day Two, scheduled on October 3rd, 2023, included a keynote address by Neha Narkhede and presentations from four conference tracks and one sponsored track.
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An Engineering Perspective on Cloud Cost Optimization: Erik Peterson at QCon San Francisco
A single line of code can shape an organization's financial future. Erik Peterson, the CTO and founder at CloudZero, presented during day three at QCon San Francisco about the engineering’s perspective on cloud cost optimization. His session was part of the “Architecting for the Cloud” track.
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Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models at QCon San Francisco
In a recent presentation at QConSFrancisco, Nischal HP discussed the challenges enterprises face when building LLM-powered applications using APIs alone. These challenges include data fragmentation, the absence of a shared business vocabulary, privacy concerns regarding data, and diverse objectives among stakeholders.
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Lessons from Leading the Serverless First Journey at Capital One: George Mao at QCon San Francisco
During the third day of QCon San Francisco, George Mao, a senior distinguished engineer at Capital One, presented on his company's journey into serverless, the best practices they picked up, and the lessons learned along the way. The session was part of the “Architecting for the Cloud” track.
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Practical Advice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), by Sam Partee at QCon San Francisco
At the recent QCon San Francisco conference, Sam Partee, principal engineer at Redis, gave a talk about Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). He discussed Generative Search, which combines large language models (LLMs) with vector databases to improve information retrieval. Partee discussed several innovative tricks such as Hypothetical Document Embeddings (HyDE), and semantic caching.