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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

From a Lambda-Lith to an Event Driven Architecture – Lessons Learned

Leo Hanisch discusses the challenges of the "Lambda-Lith" approach and the benefits of embracing EDAs.

AI Infrastructure

Understanding What Really Matters for Developer Productivity: A Conversation with Lizzie Matusov

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with Lizzie Matusov about the dependency of effective, productive, and satisfied teams on good software architecture. Understanding this relationship requires understanding exactly what software productivity really is, how modern software engineering research has become more rigorous and practical, and how to apply that research to software development.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

The (Not So) Hidden Social Drivers behind the Highest Performing Engineering Teams

Lizzie Matusov delves into how trust and psychological safety serve as powerful signals of team success with practical methods to evaluate and measure these key social dimensions.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

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.