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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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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.

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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 JavaEE 7 In Practice: Blueprints Reborn

JavaEE 7 In Practice: Blueprints Reborn

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Ed Burns demos using WebSockets, JSON-P, JavaAPI for RESTful Web Services (JAX-RS), JSF, Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI), Bean Validation, Expression Language in a CargoTracker application.

Bio

Ed Burns is a consulting member at Oracle. He is the author/coauthor of four books: Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers, JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference, JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference, and Hudson Continuous Integration in Practice. He has spoken at JavaOne, W-JAX, JAX, GlobalCode, JSF Days, CONFESS, DOAG, numerous Java User Group meetings and the NFJS Java Symposium.

About the conference

DEVNEXUS is the Southeast’s most exciting conference for professional software developers working with languages, tools, frameworks & methodologies connected to the Java platform. With attendance of over 1200 people, 10 tracks provide a fantastic learning experience for Core Java, Web, Cloud, Mobile, Data & Integration, HTML5, JavaScript, Alternative Languages, Agile & Architecture, UX/Git/DevOps.

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