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Development

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How to Use Apache Spark to Craft a Multi-Year Data Regression Testing and Simulations Framework

Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from Stripe, shares his experience in building a testing system based on multi-year worth of data. He shares insights into why Apache Spark was the choice for creating such a system and how it fits in the "traditional" engineering practices.

How to Use Apache Spark to Craft a Multi-Year Data Regression Testing and Simulations Framework

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io

Somtochi Onyekwere explains the architecture of Corrosion, a distributed system designed for low-latency state replication. She shares how Fly.io transitioned from Consul to a gossip-based SQLite solution to handle global machine data. By discussing CRDTs, the SWIM protocol, and QUIC, she shares how to build resilient systems that prioritize speed while managing the complexities of CAP theorem.

Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io

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AI Infrastructure

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The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag

This special edition of The InfoQ eMag, contains a comprehensive collection of our popular InfoQ Trends Reports from 2025, a year with both evolution and revolution within the landscapes of technology, software development trends. This collection does not just reflect the past year's technological trends. We aspire to use it as a guide for future exploration and innovation.

The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag

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Culture & Methods

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Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers

Beth Anderson discusses the "power distance index" and its critical role in communication. Using the Korean Air Flight 801 tragedy as a case study, she explains the dangers of hierarchy-driven silence. She shares actionable frameworks for building the four stages of psychological safety, implementing reverse mentoring, and using PRs as tools for knowledge sharing rather than gatekeeping.

Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers

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DevOps

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Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads

Bruno Borges discusses a paradigm shift in performance management: moving from manual tuning to automated SRE agents. He explains how to leverage the USE and jPDM methodologies alongside LLMs to reduce MTTR from hours to seconds. By utilizing MCP tools for real-time diagnostics and memory dump analysis, he shares how engineering leaders can scale systems while meeting strict objectives.

Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads

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Posted by Howard Lewis Ship on Feb 10, 2012

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Techniques for Java

Howard Lewis Ship discusses how to add extend class functionality at runtime via meta-programming for Java using Tapestry Plastic.

Howard Lewis Ship
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Advanced Reflection & Metaprogramming

Jean Baptiste Evain presents the reflection and metaprogramming tools provided by Mono: Mono.Reflection, Mono.Linq.Expressions, and Mono.Cecil.

Jean Baptiste Evain
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How to Use Apache Spark to Craft a Multi-Year Data Regression Testing and Simulations Framework

Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io

The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag

Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers

Fix SLO Breaches before They Repeat: an SRE AI Agent for Application Workloads

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Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Techniques for Java

Advanced Reflection & Metaprogramming

Facebook Survey Reveals Growing Adoption of Typed Python for Improved Code Quality and Flexibility

Cloudflare Year in Review: AI Bots Crawl Aggressively, Post-Quantum Encryption Hits 50%, Go Doubles

How Developers in Southeast Asia and India are Really Using AI in 2025

Fast Eventual Consistency: Inside Corrosion, the Distributed System Powering Fly.io

Meta Applies Mutation Testing with LLM to Improve Compliance Coverage

2025 Key Trends: AI Workflows, Architectural Complexity, Sociotechnical Systems & Platform Products

What Testers Can Do to Ensure Software Security

Things Software Developers Think They Don’t Need to Care about, But Can Impact Their Job

Changing Power Dynamics: What Senior Engineers Can Learn from Junior Engineers

MongoBleed Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Read Data From MongoDB's Heap Memory

The InfoQ Trends Reports 2025 eMag

Agentic Terminal - How Your Terminal Comes Alive with CLI Agents

Slack Enhances Chef Infrastructure to Improve Safety and Reduce Blast Radius in Deployments

Docker Kanvas Challenges Helm and Kustomize for Kubernetes Dominance

API Platform Unkey Ditches Serverless After Performance Struggles

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