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Development

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.

All in development

Architecture & Design

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.

AI Infrastructure

Secure AI-Powered Early Detection System for Medical Data Analysis & Diagnosis

In this article, author discusses the techniques for securing AI applications in healthcare with an use case of early detection system for medical data analysis & diagnosis. The proposed layered architecture includes application components to support secure computation, ai modeling, governance and compliance, and monitoring and auditing.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Virtual Panel: Increasing Engineering Productivity, Develop Software Fast and in a Sustainable Way

Companies need to balance between rapid feature development and long-term product sustainability. Engineers are taking on more left-shifted, cognitive load as their features intersect with user privacy, security, accessibility, and regulations. We'll discuss approaches, philosophies, and techniques that companies and products applied to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of development.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI

Michael Friedrich tells a story about experienced pain points, wasted hours debugging and solving, and learning how a little help from AI makes DevSecOps workflows efficient again.