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Development

Featured in Development

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.

Go Channels: Understanding Happens-Before for Safe Concurrency

All in development

Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from Over Twenty Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Building resilient platforms requires understanding the art and science of creating infrastructure that others depend on for critical applications. This perspective applies to anyone who builds software consumed by others at scale. Whether developing infrastructure platforms, software development platforms, or messaging systems, principles address how to build software that others consume at scale

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from Over Twenty Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

All in architecture-design

AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Growing and Cultivating Strong Machine Learning Engineers

Vivek Gupta shares best practices for managing and mentoring ML engineers, from early-career development to senior leadership growth. He breaks down the crucial, distinct skills for Production Machine Learning, including data/model management, building training pipelines, LLM prompt evaluation, privacy/security, and integrating human-in-the-loop processes for reliable, scalable AI systems.

Growing and Cultivating Strong Machine Learning Engineers

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

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.

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

All in culture-methods

DevOps

Featured in DevOps

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

David Blank-Edelman (Microsoft SRE Academy) explains seven 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 five whys, re-evaluate the true goals of toil automation, and understand SRE's role (firefighting vs. partnership).

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

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QCon San Francisco 2025

Get production-proven patterns from the leaders who scaled a GenAI search platform to millions, migrated a core ML system without downtime, and architected a global streaming service from the ground up.

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QCon AI New York 2025

Move beyond AI demos to real engineering impact. Discover how teams embed LLMs, govern models, and scale inference pipelines to accelerate development securely.

Early Bird ends Nov 11.

QCon London 2026

Benchmark your systems against leading engineering teams. See what really works in FinOps, modern Java, and distributed data architectures to balance cost, scale, and reliability.

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Posted by Jon Topper on Jul 22, 2020

DevOps

Lessons Learned from Reviewing 150 Infrastructures

Jon Topper presents a structured review of the architectural and operational choices of 150 platform teams, talking about common mistakes and providing advice on how to avoid these.

Jon Topper
on Jul 22, 2020

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Posted by Mohit Gupta on Jul 18, 2018

DevOps

Control Planes: Designing Infrastructure for Rapid Iteration

Mohit Gupta shares Clever’s learnings on how to build developer control planes to allow our infrastructure team to make changes without disrupting engineers.

Mohit Gupta
on Jul 18, 2018

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Topics

Go Channels: Understanding Happens-Before for Safe Concurrency

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from Over Twenty Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Growing and Cultivating Strong Machine Learning Engineers

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

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

Helpful links

Choose your language

Presentations

Lessons Learned from Reviewing 150 Infrastructures

Control Planes: Designing Infrastructure for Rapid Iteration

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

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from Over Twenty Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Architecture Should Model the World as It Really Is: A Conversation with Randy Shoup

Inside Uber’s Query Architecture: Simplifying Layers and Improving Observability

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

CodeClash Benchmarks LLMs through Multi-Round Coding Competitions

Growing and Cultivating Strong Machine Learning Engineers

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

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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