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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

Featured in Architecture & Design

Renovate to Innovate: Fundamentals of Transforming Legacy Architecture

Rashmi Venugopal explores the inevitability of legacy systems in successful companies and the importance of transforming legacy systems to accelerate innovation. Rashmi discusses various strategies to tackle such technical renovation initiatives, like evolutionary architecture, deprecation-driven development, and intentional organization design.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

From "Simple" Fine-Tuning to Your Own Mixture of Expert Models Using Open-Source Models

Sebastiano Galazzo discusses the practicalities of creating custom LLMs and shares real-world tips and common mistakes. Learn cost-effective fine-tuning (LoRA), powerful model merging ("Franken models"), Mixture of Experts, multimodal capabilities & key performance optimizations (pruning, quantization) for maximum value and relevance to senior software developers and engineering leaders.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Taming Flaky Tests: Trisha Gee on Developer Productivity and Testing Best Practices

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Trisha Gee about the challenges and importance of addressing flaky tests, their impact on developer productivity and morale, best practices for testing, and broader concepts of measuring and improving developer productivity.

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DevOps

Featured in DevOps

Implement the EU Cyber Resilience Act's Requirements to Strengthen Your Software Project

Eddie Knight, OSPO lead at Sonatype, discusses how the EU Cyber Resilience Act can help with improving your software project’s security and in the same time to slow down the alarming acceleration of software supply chain attacks.

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Big Data Infrastructure @ LinkedIn

Shirshanka Das describes LinkedIn’s Big Data Infrastructure and its evolution through the years, including details on the motivation and architecture of Gobblin, Pinot and WhereHows.

Shirshanka Das
on Apr 02, 2017

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Development

Performance and Search

Dan Luu discusses how to estimate performance using back of the envelope calculations that can be done in minutes or hours, even for applications that take months or years to implement.

Dan Luu
on Apr 01, 2017

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41:09
Architecture & Design

Scaling up Near Real-Time Analytics @Uber &LinkedIn

Chinmay Soman and Yi Pan discuss how Uber and LinkedIn use Apache Samza, Calcite and Pinot along with the analytics platform AthenaX to transform data to make it available for querying in minutes.

Yi Pan Chinmay Soman
on Mar 30, 2017

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Real-Time Recommendations Using Spark Streaming

Elliot Chow discusses the data pipeline that they built with Kafka, Spark Streaming, and Cassandra to process Netflix user activities in real time for the Trending Now row.

Elliot Chow
on Mar 30, 2017

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Architecture & Design

Stream Processing & Analytics with Flink @Uber

Danny Yuan discusses how Uber builds its next generation of stream processing system to support real-time analytics as well as complex event processing.

Danny Yuan
on Mar 25, 2017

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Architecture & Design

Demistifying DynamoDB Streams

Akshat Vig and Khawaja Shams discuss DynamoDB Streams and what it takes to build an ordered, highly available, durable, performant, and scalable replicated log stream.

Akshat Vig Khawaja Shams
on Mar 25, 2017

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Building a Data Science Capability from Scratch

Victor Hu covers the challenges, both technical and cultural, of building a data science team and capability in a large, global company.

Victor Hu
on Mar 23, 2017

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Cleansing and Understanding Best Practices

Casey Stella talks about discovering missing values, values with skewed distributions and likely errors within data, as well as a novel approach to finding data interconnectedness.

Casey Stella
on Mar 23, 2017

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49:31
AI, ML & Data Engineering

SQL Server on Linux: Will it Perform or Not?

Slava Oks talks about SQL Server’s history, high-level architecture and dives into core of I/O Manager, Memory Manager, and Scheduler. Topics include lessons learned and experiences behind the scenes.

Slava Oks
on Mar 22, 2017

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Java

Practical Data Synchronization Using CRDTs

Dmitry Ivanov discusses the basic CRDTs implementations in Scala, explaining the advantages of these data structures to solve many synchronization problems as well as their limitations.

Dmitry Ivanov
on Mar 10, 2017

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51:31
AI, ML & Data Engineering

ScyllaDB: Achieving No-Compromise Performance

Avi Kivity discusses ScyllaDB, the many necessary design decisions, from the programming language and programming model through low-level details and up to the advanced cache design, and more.

Avi Kivity
on Mar 07, 2017

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54:36
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Data Science in the Cloud @StitchFix

Stefan Krawczyk discusses how StitchFix used the cloud to enable over 80 data scientists to be productive and have easy access, covering prototyping, algorithms used, keeping schema in sync, etc.

Stefan Krawczyk
on Feb 17, 2017

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