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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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Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework

Will McGugan, the maker of Textual and Rich frameworks, speaks about the reasoning of developing the two two libraries and the lesson learned. Also, he shares light on Toad, his current project, which he envisions being a more visually appealing way of interacting with agentic LLMs through command line.

Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Powering Enterprise AI Applications with Data and Open Source Software

Francisco Javier Arceo explored Feast, the open-source feature store designed to address common data challenges in the AI/ML lifecycle, such as feature redundancy, and low-latency serving at scale.

Powering Enterprise AI Applications with Data and Open Source Software

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Peter Hunter & Elena Stojmilova share Open GI's journey from a slow, legacy monolith to a cloud-native SaaS platform. They detail how adopting Team Topologies and a decentralized architectural approach empowered teams. Key practices discussed include utilizing Domain-Driven Design to create a Context Map, implementing the Advice Process with Architectural Principles, and more.

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

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DevOps

Featured in DevOps

Overload Protection: the Missing Pillar of Platform Engineering

Overload protection is often overlooked in platform engineering, leaving teams to create inconsistent, fragile fixes. Centralized rate limits, quotas, adaptive controls, and clear visibility give services predictable ways to handle traffic spikes, reduce reliability debt, and prevent cascading failures across systems.

Overload Protection: the Missing Pillar of Platform Engineering

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Fiodar Sazanavets

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Senior .NET developer and technical author

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He is an experienced lead software engineer whose main area of expertise is Microsoft stack, which includes ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, Azure, and various front-end technologies. He is familiar with industry-wide best practices, such as SOLID principles, software design patterns, automation testing principles (BDD and TDD), and microservices architecture.

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

Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework

Powering Enterprise AI Applications with Data and Open Source Software

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Overload Protection: the Missing Pillar of Platform Engineering

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Fiodar Sazanavets

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Magika 1.0: Smarter, Faster File Detection with Rust and AI

HL is a Fast, Rust-Based JSON Log Viewer Offering up to 2GiB/s Parsing Speed

Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends by Luca Mezzalira at QCon SF

Building a More Appealing CLI for Agentic LLMs Based on Learnings from the Textual Framework

Breaking Silos: Netflix Introduces Upper Metamodel to Bring Consistency across Content Engineering

Architecting Planet Scale, Modern Apps in the Cloud

Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making

Leading from Any Position: Richard Bown on Humane Engineering Organizations

Learnings from Cultivating Machine Learning Engineers as a Team Manager

Powering Enterprise AI Applications with Data and Open Source Software

AlphaEvolve Enters Google Cloud as an Agentic System for Algorithm Optimization

Five AI Security Myths Debunked at InfoQ Dev Summit Munich

Yelp Publishes Blueprint for Managing S3 Server-Access Logs at Massive Scale

Google Cloud Demonstrates Massive Kubernetes Scale with 130,000-Node GKE Cluster

Overload Protection: the Missing Pillar of Platform Engineering

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