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Development

Dare Mighty Things: What NASA's Endeavors Teach Us about the Power of Calculated RISCs

Khawaja Shams explores the essence of calculated risks, discussing why these risks are worth taking, how to identify and mitigate potential downsides, and the characteristics of good risks.

All in development

Architecture & Design

From a Lambda-Lith to an Event Driven Architecture – Lessons Learned

Leo Hanisch discusses the challenges of the "Lambda-Lith" approach and the benefits of embracing EDAs.

AI Infrastructure

Recommender and Search Ranking Systems in Large Scale Real World Applications

Moumita Bhattacharya overviews the industry search and recommendations systems, goes into modeling choices, data requirements and infrastructural requirements, while highlighting challenges.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Building Your First Platform Team in a Fast Growing Startup

Jessica Andersson discusses Platform Engineering, how to start small, strategies and tradeoffs, gaining adoption from developers, and the future.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

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.