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Development

Tidy First? Kent Beck on Refactoring

Kent Beck discusses dealing with refactoring.

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Architecture & Design

A Case for Event-Driven Architecture With Mediator Topology

This article tells the story about a business case using Event-Driven Architecture with Mediator topology and an implementation that provided elastic scalability, reliability, and durable workflows. All were built using Kubernetes, KEDA, AWS, and .NET technologies.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

Operationalizing Responsible AI in Practice

Mehrnoosh Sameki discusses approaches to responsible AI and demonstrates how open source and cloud integrated ML help data scientists and developers to understand and improve ML models better.

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Culture & Methods

Debugging Outside Your Comfort Zone: Diving Beneath a Trusted Abstraction

This article takes a deep dive through a complex outage in the main database cluster of a payments company. We’ll focus on the aftermath of the incident - the process of understanding what went wrong, recreating the outage in a test cluster, and coming up with a way to stop it from happening again, and dive deep into the internals of Postgres, and learn about how it stores data on disk.

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DevOps

If You Want to Deliver Fast, Your Tests Have the Last Word

A good testing strategy is critical for safe code changes, fast delivery, reduced MTTR, and improved developer experience. Shifting the concept of “unit” can reduce the time needed for changes.