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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

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

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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 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.

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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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InfoQ Homepage Presentations Building Polyglot Systems with Scalang

Building Polyglot Systems with Scalang

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Cliff Moon discusses Scalang, a message passing and actor library enabling easy communication between Scala and Erlang apps, wrapping services in Scalang actors.

Bio

Cliff Moon is co-founder at Boundary where he uses both Scala and Erlang to build the most advanced net flow analysis platform in the world. In a previous life, Cliff wrote Dynomite, one of the first open source Dynamo clones. He is a well regarded member of both the NoSQL and the Erlang communities, as well as a frequent internet troll.

About the conference

Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.

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May 07, 2012

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