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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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Jakarta EE 11 Overview: Virtual Threads, Records, and the Future of Persistence
Jakarta EE 11 delivers enhancements that include support for Java 17 and 21, integration with Java records and virtual threads, and the introduction of the Jakarta Data specification for unified SQL and NoSQL persistence. This release simplifies enterprise Java and establishes the groundwork for Jakarta EE 12, which will advance capabilities in data management.
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Understanding and Mitigating High Energy Consumption in Microservices
Microservices often consume more energy than monoliths due to distributed overhead. Architects can make design decisions that improve sustainability. This article covers several techniques, such as defining clear service boundaries, optimizing service granularity, using energy-efficient deployment regions, and consolidating workloads.
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Spring AI 1.0 Delivers Easy AI Systems and Services
AI is here to stay, and it represents a unique and wonderful opportunity for Java and Spring developers. For most people, “AI engineering” simply means calling an LLM-based service over HTTP. In this article, we’ll examine the new Spring AI 1.0 project and explore how it can be used to integrate AI more effectively.
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Architecting the MVP in the Age of AI
AI enhances software architecture by informing decisions, suggesting alternatives, and streamlining documentation. While it can’t replace human judgment, it accelerates MVP development and supports experimentation, trade-off analysis, and technical debt management when provided with sufficient context.
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From Legacy to Value: Building Digital Banking Products across Central and Eastern Europe
This article shares practical experiences and concrete examples from multi-site teams that built a single solution and delivered value to customers across various European markets. It provides real-life stories and lessons learned from developing two banking products, Lending and Foreign Exchange (FX), and their evolving architecture over time.
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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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Agentic AI Architecture Framework for Enterprises
To deploy agentic AI responsibly and effectively in the enterprise, organizations must progress through a three-tier architecture, Foundation tier, Workflow tier, and Autonomous tier where trust, governance, and transparency precede autonomy.
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Ceph RBD Turns 15: a Story of Open Source Creation
Fifteen years ago, Ceph RBD began as a community-driven idea that grew into essential infrastructure powering today's cloud platforms. This insider story from Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub reveals how two developers started a distributed storage that now supports OpenStack and Kubernetes through transparent, collaborative development.
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Effective Practices for Coding with a Chat-Based AI
In this article, we explore how AI agents are reshaping software development and the impact they have on a developer’s workflow. We introduce a practical approach to staying in control while working with these tools by adopting key best practices from the discipline of software architecture, including defining an implementation plan, splitting tasks, and so on.
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Why Is My Docker Image So Big? A Deep Dive with ‘dive’ to Find the Bloat
AI images typically bloat from massive library installations and base OS components, with large Docker images slowing AI development and increasing costs. Chirag Agrawal demonstrates how to diagnose bloat using Docker's history and the interactive 'dive' tool to examine each layer in detail. The article shows how effective diagnosis leads to targeted optimizations.
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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.