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Development

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How to Compute Without Looking: A Sneak Peek into Secure Multi-Party Computation

This article shows how you can compute a function across multiple parties that do not trust each other without forcing them to share their individual inputs. This technique can be used to split secrets among parties, perform logical operations, or count votes in a way that ensures data privacy is preserved.

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

OpenSearch Cluster Topologies for Cost Saving Autoscaling

Amitai Stern discusses cost-saving autoscaling topologies for OpenSearch. He explains the inherent challenges in autoscaling unstructured data systems like OpenSearch and Elasticsearch, using analogies to illustrate the complexities beyond simply adding nodes. He shares architectural patterns (burst indexes, burst clusters) to optimize resource utilization and handle fluctuating loads effectively.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Beyond Chatbots: Architecting Domain-Specific Generative AI for Operational Decision-Making

This article explores the use of domain-specific Generative AI, models that understand operational constraints, real-world dynamics, and business rules to generate executable strategies, not just text descriptions. These models require significantly smaller datasets and fewer parameters, making them cost-effective while enabling AI-driven core business decision intelligence at scale.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Bringing a Product Mindset to an Infrastructure Platform Team

Stéphane Di Cesare discusses DKB's experience introducing a product mindset within their platform team, explaining their definition of a platform team, the rationale behind the shift, and their journey including challenges, goals, and key learnings around user value, platform definition, maturity models, and effective communication strategies for senior software developers and engineering leaders.

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DevOps

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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.

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Architecture & Design

Putting a SpEL on Spinnaker: Evolving an Expression Language for Continuous Delivery at Netflix

Tomas Lin discusses Spinnaker and SpEL, an open source, multi-cloud continuous delivery platform that is used by over 90% of cloud deployments at Netflix.

Tomas Lin
on Jan 04, 2017

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DevOps

Spinnaker - Land of a 1000 Builds

Greg Turnquist talks about Spinnaker, the open source continuous deployment tool that supports multiple clouds, multiple languages, and multiple providers.

Greg Turnquist
on Dec 14, 2016

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Java

gRPC 101 for Spring Developers

Ray Tsang discusses using gRPC's streaming API to build sophisticated real-time applications, diving into integration with Maven, Gradle, Spring Boot and RxJava.

Ray Tsang
on Nov 29, 2016

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Culture & Methods

Continuous Delivery for Microservice Architectures with Concourse & Cloud Foundry

Alex Ley introduces Concourse, an open source pipeline based CI system that focuses on simplicity, usability and reproductibility, with isolated builds.

Alex Ley
on Nov 22, 2016

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Culture & Methods

From Commit to Production in 10 Minutes at a Century Old Insurance Company

Dave Ehringer shares the experiences instating CI/CD at Liberty Mutual and the best practices they picked up along the way, using Cloud Foundry and Spring.

Dave Ehringer
on Oct 27, 2016

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Culture & Methods

Transforming the Monolith at 20M tph

Nick Beenham describes how the Enterprise Services Team at Comcast transformed from large monolithic deployments with cycle times of anything from 90 days to cycle times measured in hours.

Nick Beenham
on Oct 13, 2016

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DevOps

An Approach to a Container-Happy Tech Department

Michael Venezia discusses creating a container-friendly environment starting with CI/CD of container images, providing a roadmap to meet an organization's needs and fostering cooperation.

Michael Venezia
on Oct 07, 2016

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DevOps

What I Learned from Four Years of Science-ing the Crap out of DevOps

Nicole Forsgren shares the results of studies spanning four years and 25,000 DevOps data points: continuous delivery and Lean management practices improves quality and security outcomes.

Nicole Forsgren
on Sep 22, 2016

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Cloud

Continuous Delivery of the Cloud Foundry Platform (as a service!)

Tushar Dadlani focuses on lessons learned while building the continuous integration pipeline for deploying Pivotal Cloud Foundry to production.

Tushar Dadlani
on Sep 08, 2016

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DevOps

Continuously Deploying at JUST EAT

Peter Mounce discusses CD at JUST EAT, covering package contracts, feature toggling, team sizes and responsibility, AWS AutoScaling, ELB, CloudFormation, build scripts for server images, etc..

Peter Mounce
on Sep 02, 2016

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DevOps

From Zero to Application Delivery with NixOS

Susan Potter describes a toolchain and principles for defining infrastructure in code, versioned with the code, providing repeatable configuration, ephemeral testing and consistent CI/CD environments.

Susan Potter
on Aug 18, 2016

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Culture & Methods

Lead the Revolution by Being Ordinary

Katherine Kirk shares real life, practical steps and techniques that she's successfully used to help solve tough tech people issues with teams, executives and divisions.

Katherine Kirk
on Jul 19, 2016

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