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Go Channels: Understanding Happens-Before for Safe Concurrency

This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory visibility, synchronization, and concurrency correctness. We'll examine subtle pitfalls, illustrate them with examples, and explore the architectural implications for system designers.

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Architecture & Design

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Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments

Tom Akehurst explains strategies for overcoming microservice pain points like environment dependency and slow development. He advocates using realistic API simulation at scale, supported by contract testing , API observability, and GenAI integration. Learn to compose observations, simulations, and contracts to maximize confidence and reduce the toil of maintaining realistic, up-to-date mocks.

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AI Infrastructure

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Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents

Adi Polak explains the path from GenAI prototype to production by focusing on precision - the competitive edge. She details Agentic RAG architectures, emergent agent design patterns, and crucial feedback loops (LLM-as-a-judge) for refinement. Learn how to leverage data streaming (Kafka) to manage collaboration, memory, and scale microservices in real-time agent systems.

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Culture & Methods

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Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself as Your Company Grows

Suhail Patel discusses how senior engineers and tech leaders must go beyond technical mastery to achieve staff-plus growth. He explains how to leverage one-to-ones, intentional interviewing (as learning opportunities), and visible writing to build influence and your network. Get practical advice on making ambitious bets and fixing organizational cracks to grow your team and company.

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DevOps

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You Are Asking the Wrong Questions (About Reliability and SRE)

David Blank-Edelman (Microsoft SRE Academy) explains 7 essential questions to elevate your reliability practice. He challenges engineering leaders to redefine reliability metrics beyond availability, replace "root cause" with contributing factors, critique the 5 whys, re-evaluate the true goals of toil automation, and understand SRE's role (firefighting vs. partnership).

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Howard Lewis Ship on Tapestry 5, Java and Clojure

Howard Lewis Ship discusses Tapestry 5, changes he'd like to see in Java, Clojure, and Java/Clojure interoperability.

Howard Lewis Ship
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Go Channels: Understanding Happens-Before for Safe Concurrency

Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments

Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents

Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself as Your Company Grows

You Are Asking the Wrong Questions (About Reliability and SRE)

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Howard Lewis Ship on Tapestry 5, Java and Clojure

Redis Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered After 13 Years

How Meta Is Using AI to Standardize and Cut Carbon Emissions

Meta Open Sources OpenZL: a Universal Compression Framework for Structured Data

Inside Uber’s Pinot Query Overhaul: Simplifying Layers and Improving Observability

Scaling API Independence: Mocking, Contract Testing & Observability in Large Microservices Environments

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

How AI with Prompt Engineering Supports Software Testing

Changing a Career from Developing Software to Test Automation

Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself as Your Company Grows

Embedding Atlas: Apple’s Open-Source Tool for Exploring Large-Scale Embeddings Locally

GitHub Expands Copilot Ecosystem with AgentHQ

Achieving Precision in AI: Retrieving the Right Data Using AI Agents

Microsoft Moves Azure DevOps MCP Server From Preview To General Availability

Grafana and GitLab Introduce Serverless CI/CD Observability Integration

You Are Asking the Wrong Questions (About Reliability and SRE)

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