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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

Changing the Model: Why and How We Re-Architected Slack

Ian Hoffman discusses Slack's architectural evolution from workspace-centric to Unified Grid. He explains scaling challenges & Enterprise Grid complexities, and shares lessons learned during this significant architectural shift, drawing insightful parallels to the history of astronomy and emphasizing the importance of questioning foundational assumptions in software development.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

How Green is Green: LLMs to Understand Climate Disclosure at Scale

Leo Browning explains the journey of developing a RAG system at a climate-focused startup. He shares insights on overcoming challenges in applying LLMs to a complex domain, focusing on accuracy, auditability, and scalability. He covers the evolution of search techniques, the role of human-in-the-loop workflows, and strategies for optimizing RAG systems for real-world financial applications.

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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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DevOps

Prod Lessons - Deployment Validation and Graceful Degradation

Anika Mukherji discusses lessons learned in production at Pinterest: deployment validation framework and product-informed graceful degradation, preventing hundreds of outages.

Anika Mukherji
on Jul 01, 2022

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38:11
Culture & Methods

Managing Tech Debt in a Microservice Architecture

Glenn Engstrand describes how Optum Digital engineering devised a method for reliably and predictably paying down tech debt for hundreds of microservices.

Glenn Engstrand
on May 05, 2022

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39:27
Architecture & Design

Netflix Drive: Building a Cloud Native Filesystem for Media Assets

Tejas Chopra discusses Netflix Drive, a generic cloud drive for storing and retrieving media assets, a collection of media files and folders in Netflix.

Tejas Chopra
on Apr 29, 2022

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37:05
Culture & Methods

Production Readiness: Fighting Fires or Building Better Systems?

Laura Nolan discusses why we don’t have a fire code for software, and what Production Readiness Reviews can and cannot achieve in terms of reliability.

Laura Nolan
on Apr 14, 2022

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39:54
Culture & Methods

Enabling Engineering Productivity at the Financial Times

Sarah Wells discusses how they ended up moving fast with over 30,000 releases in a year from a development team of around 250.

Sarah Wells
on Apr 07, 2022

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39:04
Culture & Methods

The Spectrum of Synchronousness

James Stanier discusses shifting to asynchronous communication for remote working, going through a spectrum of options, plotting interactions on it, pre- and post- remote work.

James Stanier
on Mar 31, 2022

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38:59
Culture & Methods

Lead with Speed

Courtney Kissler believes in speed for strong results. Tactics covered: outcome-based teams, making all work visible, limiting WIP, understanding velocity and viscosity, and architecture evolution.

Courtney Kissler
on Mar 31, 2022

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38:32
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Federated GraphQL to Solve Service Sprawl at Major League Baseball

Olessya Medvedeva and Matt Oliver discuss how they have begun to implement a Federated GraphQL architecture to solve the issue of service discovery, sprawl and ultimately getting the data needed.

Olessya Medvedeva Matt Oliver
on Mar 24, 2022

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38:09
Architecture & Design

Create from Anywhere: the Netflix Workstations Story

Michelle Brenner discusses the studio Netflix has been building for their originals, the technology behind it and the challenges faced.

Michelle Brenner
on Mar 18, 2022

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38:31
Culture & Methods

Improving eBay's Development Velocity

Randy Shoup and Mark Weinberg discuss breaking down silos, measuring software delivery, continually reducing build, startup, PR validation, and deployment time, embedding experts in product teams.

Randy Shoup Mark Weinberg
on Mar 17, 2022

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38:48
DevOps

Maintaining Software Quality with Microservices

The panelists discuss what microservices are, why companies are making the transition, how to identify the challenges when planning the move to microservices, and best practices for software quality.

Rehan Van Der Merwe Asanka Abeysinghe Susanne Kaiser Nicolaas Kruger Renato Losio
on Mar 11, 2022

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45:54
Web Development

Experimenting with WASM for Future Audience Experiences in BBC iPlayer

Tim Pearce discusses how they used WebAssembly to deploy their iPlayer across various web browsers, what advantages this approach had and how they intend to use WebAssembly outside the browser.

Tim Pearce
on Mar 06, 2022

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