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Development

A Common Problem and an Ancient Idea: How We Built Our Asset Library

Wenshuo Liu discusses why they chose GCS for storage, the problems that came with this decision, and various types of cache, especially their write back cache backed by Cloud Spanner.

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Architecture & Design

Building Green Software with Anne Currie and Sara Bergman

What Does It Mean to Be Green in IT? That's the question that begins chapter one in Building Green Software. In this episode, Thomas Betts is joined by two of the book's authors, Anne Currie and Sara Bergman. The discussion covers general themes and digs into some practical advice for all software practitioners.

AI Infrastructure

High Performance Time - Series Database Design with QuestDB

Vlad Ilyushchenko discusses database design and focuses on geographical data distribution, simplifying data pipelines with HA writes, data visualization with SQL extensions, and providing data scientists with scalable data access.

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Culture & Methods

Intentional Culture and Continuous Compensation: An Interview with Austin Vance

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Austin Vance, about the importance of intentional onboarding and culture-building, as well as his company's unique approach to compensation and the role of managers in retaining top talent.

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DevOps

Bits, Bots, and Banter: a Deep Dive into How Tech Teams Work in a DevOps World

Brittany Woods discusses team structures and how they can make or break healthy teams, insights into how teams are collaborating, strategies for leaders, advice on dealing with T-shaped engineers.