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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

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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

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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

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun

Holly Cummins & Trisha Gee explain how to achieve the "Double Win" - boosting both developer joy and productivity. They expose the flaws of traditional metrics, identify sources of developer toil (slow builds, flaky tests), and share methods and techniques (like boredom and play) for engineering leaders and architects to unlock creativity and a 31% boost in positive-brain productivity.

Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun

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DevOps

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When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions meant to simplify become hidden fragility points. Success requires profiling on target hardware, relentlessly monitoring boring details, keeping hot paths lean, and trusting instrumentation over theory.

When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

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Introducing DevOps to the Traditional Enterprise

DevOps, DevOps, DevOps. In 2014 DevOps hit the top of the charts in IT lingo. A recurring question that tags along recurrently is: can DevOps be applied in traditional enterprise settings? For this eMag we selected a set of articles that dig deeper into this debate and contextualize the benefits and challenges of DevOps adoption in a traditional enterprise.

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on Jun 18, 2014
Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks

Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks is a book explaining how to use VS.NET efficiently. Organized into short and easy-to-grasp sections, and containing tips and tricks on everything from editing and compiling to debugging and navigating within the VS.NET IDE, this book is a must-read for all .NET developers, regardless of expertise and whether they program in C#, VB.NET, or any other .NET language.

Minh T. Nguyen
on Jun 08, 2006

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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

Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun

When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

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Guides

Introducing DevOps to the Traditional Enterprise

Visual Studio .NET Tips and Tricks

Cloudflare Proposes Merkle Tree Certificates to Solve Post-Quantum TLS Performance Issue

Redis Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered after 13 Years

How Meta Is Using AI to Standardize and Cut Carbon Emissions

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

Productivity Is Messing Around and Having Fun

How AI with Prompt Engineering Supports Software Testing

Changing a Career from Developing Software to Test Automation

New Claude Haiku 4.5 Model Promises Faster Performance at One-Third the Cost

Anthropic Finds LLMs Can Be Poisoned Using Small Number of Documents

CodeClash Benchmarks LLMs through Multi-Round Coding Competitions

HashiCorp’s New Guide Offers Practical Advice on Writing and Rightsizing Terraform Modules

Google Cloud Introduces Chaos Engineering Framework and Recipes for Distributed Systems

When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

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