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Development

Featured in Development

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

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

In this end-of-year panel, the InfoQ podcast hosts reflect on AI’s impact on software delivery, the growing importance of sociotechnical systems, evolving cloud realities, and what 2026 may bring.

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

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

Karthik Ramgopal and Daniel Hewlett discuss the evolution of AI at LinkedIn, from simple prompt chains to a sophisticated distributed agent platform. They explain the transition to a supervisor-sub-agent model that enables parallel development and modular quality evaluation and share a blueprint for building resilient, high-scale agentic systems.

Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

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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 Joel Semeniuk on Feb 02, 2012

A Dash of Kanban Anyone?

Joel Semeniuk shares some of the lessons he learned managing development teams, how he got into Kanban and why its principles are helpful.

Joel Semeniuk
on Feb 02, 2012

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Posted by Kevin Jones on Dec 13, 2007

Introduction to Visual Studio Team System

Ken Jones provides a framework for utilizing Visual Studio Team System, (VSTS), to support a development team and build better applications.

Kevin Jones
on Dec 13, 2007

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

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

Lessons Learned from Building LinkedIn’s First Agent: Hiring Assistant

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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Presentations

A Dash of Kanban Anyone?

Introduction to Visual Studio Team System

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

MinIO GitHub Repository in Maintenance Mode: What's Next for the Open Source Object Storage?

Meta Applies Mutation Testing with LLM to Improve Compliance Coverage

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

Swiggy Rolls out Hermes V3: from Text-to-SQL to Conversational AI

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

Effective Mentorship and Remote Team Culture with Gilad Shoham

DeepSeek-V3.2 Outperforms GPT-5 on Reasoning Tasks

Intel DeepMath Introduces a Smart Architecture to Make LLMs Better at Math

Google’s Eight Essential Multi-Agent Design Patterns

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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