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Practical Benchmarking: How to Detect Performance Changes in Noisy Results

Matt Fleming provides tips for understanding noise, where it comes, and techniques for fighting it, plus some anecdotes and real-life examples from the world of open-source.

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Architecture & Design

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If Architectural Experimentation Is So Great, Why Aren’t You Doing It?

Architectural experimentation sounds like a great idea, yet it does not seem to be used very frequently. In this article, we will explore some of the reasons why teams don’t use this powerful tool more often, and what they can do about leveraging that tool for successful outcomes.

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AI Infrastructure

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Understanding What Really Matters for Developer Productivity: A Conversation with Lizzie Matusov

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with Lizzie Matusov about the dependency of effective, productive, and satisfied teams on good software architecture. Understanding this relationship requires understanding exactly what software productivity really is, how modern software engineering research has become more rigorous and practical, and how to apply that research to software development.

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Culture & Methods

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The (Not So) Hidden Social Drivers behind the Highest Performing Engineering Teams

Lizzie Matusov delves into how trust and psychological safety serve as powerful signals of team success with practical methods to evaluate and measure these key social dimensions.

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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 Smalltalk Dave about Programming Languages, SOA, MDA and the Web

Smalltalk Dave about Programming Languages, SOA, MDA and the Web

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Dave Thomas is the managing director of Object Mentor, founder and chairman of Bedarra Research Labs and adjunct research professor at Carleton University and the University Of Queensland. He is known as founder and past CEO of Object Technology International Inc., a pioneer company in Agile development, and has been involved with the Eclipse IDE, the IBM virtual machine and Smalltalk tooling.

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