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Development

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Quantum Shift: Rewiring the Tech Landscape

Teena Idnani explains the core concepts of quantum computing, its transformative potential across industries (pharmaceuticals, finance, etc.), and the current state of quantum technology. She addresses the threats (breaking RSA encryption) and opportunities, offering practical guidance on how software developers, architects, and engineering leaders can prepare for the coming quantum revolution.

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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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LLM and Generative AI for Sensitive Data - Navigating Security, Responsibility, and Pitfalls in Highly Regulated Industries

Stefania Chaplin and Azhir Mahmood explain how to navigate the complexities of AI in highly regulated industries. They discuss MLOps pipelines, data security, evolving legislation (GDPR, EU AI Act), and the critical frameworks for responsible, secure, and explainable AI. Learn practical prevention techniques, XAI methods, and future trends in AI for cybersecurity and beyond.

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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 Mike Williams on the History of Erlang, Modeling and Large Scale Design

Mike Williams on the History of Erlang, Modeling and Large Scale Design

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Mike Williams co-founded the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory where, among other things, Erlang was created. Mike's developed the first Erlang virtual machine and worked out the primitives for fault handling and dynamic code replacement. Since the 1990s, Mike has been in charge of both large and small units within Ericsson which develop software.

About the conference

The Erlang Factory is an event that focuses on Erlang - the computer language that was designed to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-realtime applications with requirements for high availability and high concurrency. The main part of the Factory is the conference - a two-day collection of focused subject tracks with an enormous opportunity to meet the best minds in Erlang and network with experts in all its uses and applications.

Oct 03, 2011

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