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Development

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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

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If Architectures Could Talk, They’d Quote Your Boss

Software architecture reflects how organizations communicate and make decisions. Failures stem from misaligned incentives, unclear ownership, and structural gaps—not technical flaws. Architects must design not just systems, but the conditions for systems to thrive, using platform thinking to reduce friction and foster autonomy.

If Architectures Could Talk, They’d Quote Your Boss

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AI Infrastructure

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Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

Stephen Batifol discusses building and optimizing self-hosted, multimodal RAG systems. He breaks down vector search, nearest neighbor indexes (FLAT, IVF, HNSW), and the critical role of choosing the right embedding model. He then explains vLLM inference optimization (paged attention, quantization) and uses Mistral's Pixtral to detail multimodal large language model architecture.

Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

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Culture & Methods

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How to Always Get Invited to Big Strategic Conversations

Mark Allen discusses five key strategies for engineering leaders and architects to drive strategic impact and accelerate their careers. He explains how to identify what matters, build key cross-functional relationships, and craft an internal brand that attracts high-stakes, "green button" opportunities, culminating in a story of leading a project that saved his company 1ドル billion.

How to Always Get Invited to Big Strategic Conversations

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DevOps

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From Grassroots to Enterprise: Vanguard's Journey in SRE Transformation

Christina Yakomin shares Vanguard's SRE transformation: from quarterly testing of monoliths to a mature DevOps model with continuous delivery. She explains the SRE coaching hub, self-service tools, and advanced techniques like request-rate autoscaling. She details modern challenges, including region failure game days and testing AI-backed contact centers.

From Grassroots to Enterprise: Vanguard's Journey in SRE Transformation

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InfoQ Homepage News .NET to Ruby connector available

.NET to Ruby connector available

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The free of charge Ruby Connector brings the .NET and Ruby world closer together. The library is provided by SapphireSteel Software, the makers of the Ruby in Steel IDE. To avoid confusion: Ruby, for the Ruby Connector, means Ruby 1.8.x, the Ruby interpreter provided by Yukihiro Matsumoto (also called MRI). Neither Ruby.NET nor IronRuby are involved.

The SapphireSteel blog shows an example of a GUI form built with Visual Studio that connects to Ruby and fetches and sets data. For Windows or .NET developers, this allows to reuse the existing GUI creation tools to build a GUI, while keeping the program logic in a Ruby backend.

The system requirements and licensing for the Ruby Connector are simple:

The Ruby Connector is free for personal and commercial use (please read the license agreement which is included in the Zip download). It can be used with standard installations of Visual Studio and does not require Ruby In Steel (though, naturally, Ruby In Steel would be highly advantageous when developing for Ruby!).

The Ruby Connector can be downloaded at the SapphireSteel Software website.

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