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Development

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Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

Alexandru Ene features details of a new UI SDK in Rust for Prime Video that targets living room devices.

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

How GitHub Copilot Serves 400 Million Completion Requests a Day

David Cheney discusses the intricate architecture of GitHub Copilot's code completion service, explaining the challenges of achieving low-latency responses for millions of daily requests. He delves into HTTP/2 optimizations, global scaling strategies, and the critical role of their internal proxy.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

AI Trends Disrupting Software Teams

In this article, author Bilgin Ibryam discusses various AI trends disrupting the overall software development process and tools, and how these trends are influencing different IT teams like developers, operations, technical writers, and SaaS service providers.

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Culture & Methods

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A Platform Engineering Journey: Copy and Paste Deployments to Full GitOps

Jemma Hussein Allen explains practical approaches to CI/CD, GitOps, and team collaboration, aimed at enhancing the software development lifecycle. She highlights the benefits of automation, the importance of clear responsibilities, and the positive impact of psychological safety on team performance and project outcomes.

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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 Rick Hudson on Garbage Collection in Go

Rick Hudson on Garbage Collection in Go

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Richard L. Hudson (Rick) is best known for his work in memory management including the invention of the Train, Sapphire, and Mississippi Delta algorithms as well as GC stack maps which enabled garbage collection in statically typed languages such as Java, C#, and Go. Rick is a member of Google’s Go team where he is working on Go’s garbage collection and runtime issues.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

Dec 21, 2015

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Rick Hudson

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Charles Humble
Techie, podcaster, editor, author and consultant

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