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Development

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Opening the Box: Diagnosing Operating-System Task-Scheduler Behavior on Highly Multicore Machines

Julia Lawall discusses methods for diagnosing operating system task scheduler behavior on highly multicore machines, crucial for performance analysis. She explains the challenges of understanding kernel-level scheduling decisions and shares custom-built tooling for visualizing and analyzing scheduler traces to identify and resolve performance regressions. Gain deep insights into OS behavior.

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Architecture & Design

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Fitness Functions for Your Architecture

Software, its size, its requirements, and its infrastructure environment evolve over time. Software architecture should evolve accordingly, to meet current and future operational and developmental requirements. Fitness functions are guardrails that enable the continuous evolution of your system's architecture, within a range and a direction, that you desire and define.

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AI Infrastructure

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Responsible AI for FinTech

Lexy Kassan discusses the critical aspects of responsible AI, focusing on regulatory updates like the EU AI Act and its implications for FinTech. She explains the levels of responsible AI, from ethical principles to practical implementation, including AI governance. Explore FinTech's disruptive AI response, open-source use, workforce shifts, review boards & risk frameworks.

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Culture & Methods

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Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup

Rachel Potvin discusses the key differences in developer productivity between startups and established tech companies. Drawing from her experiences at GitHub and Google, she explains the critical role of urgency, flexible team structures, lean metrics, top-down planning, and a culture of experimentation in driving startup success. She also shares practical examples and actionable strategies.

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DevOps

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Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Francesco Cesarini and Viktor Klang on the Reactive Manifesto

Francesco Cesarini and Viktor Klang on the Reactive Manifesto

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Francesco Cesarini is the founder and Technical Director of Erlang Solutions, has used Erlang on a daily basis for almost 15 years and is the co-author of "Practical Erlang Programming" by O’Reilly. Viktor Klang (@viktorklang) is Director of Engineering at Typesafe, former Tech Lead for Akka, has a long background on the JVM, currently has a passion for distributed, resilient programming.

About the conference

Code Mesh London is an annual conference dedicated to non-mainstream technologies. In 2013 it featured talks from over 50 inventors and experts in languages, libraries, operating systems and technologies that handle the programming and business challenges of today. Programming languages discussed ranged from technologies that have been around for a while such as Haskell, Clojure or Erlang to new languages such as Elixir, Rust, Go and Julia.

Jan 16, 2014

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