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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

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Fitness Functions for Your Architecture

Software, its size, its requirements, and its infrastructure environment evolve over time. Software architecture should evolve accordingly, to meet current and future operational and developmental requirements. Fitness functions are guardrails that enable the continuous evolution of your system's architecture, within a range and a direction, that you desire and define.

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AI Infrastructure

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Wenjie Zi on Technology and Organizational Aspects for ML Project Success

In this podcast, Wenjie Zi discusses why many ML projects don’t succeed and what technology and organizational aspects affect the success of those projects. She also talked about what potential communication and understanding gaps can exist between business team and ML practitioners and how to address these gaps.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Productivity Lessons in Moving from Big Tech to Scaling a Startup

Rachel Potvin discusses the key differences in developer productivity between startups and established tech companies. Drawing from her experiences at GitHub and Google, she explains the critical role of urgency, flexible team structures, lean metrics, top-down planning, and a culture of experimentation in driving startup success. She also shares practical examples and actionable strategies.

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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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Principles of Microservices

Sam Newman talks about the history of where microservices came from, what they are, the benefits and downsides, and the core principles to stick to do to them well.

Sam Newman
on Jul 01, 2015

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Real-world Docker: Past, Present, and Future

Jeff Lindsay talks about the history and future of Docker, and shares some of his cutting-edge tooling for deploying systems with Docker.

Jeff Lindsay
on Mar 01, 2015

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Following Google: Don’t Follow the Followers, Follow the Leaders

Mark Madsen explains the history of databases and data processing over the past decades and looks where the industry will go.

Mark Madsen
on Feb 21, 2015

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The Quest for the One True Parser

Terence Parr shows the key practical advances in parsing from the last 25 years, provides algorithm comparisons, and separates the promises from reality.

Terence Parr
on Feb 15, 2015

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High Performance Computing Contributions to the World of Big Data

Sharan Kalwani presents the history of HPC and the technologies and trends which have contributed to creating the world of big data, covering applications of HPC resulting in big data technologies.

Sharan Kalwani
on Jan 11, 2015

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Java Past, Present, and Future

Brian Goetz keynotes on Java’s history, evolution and its future, how it is going to meet the needs of today’s programming.

Brian Goetz
on Dec 20, 2014

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TDD: Why We Don't Party Like It's 1999

Jason Felice introduces TDD, how it came about, the two schools of TDD thought, the differences and contradictions between them.

Jason Felice
on Sep 19, 2014

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The History of Women in Technology

Sarah Dutkiewicz takes a trip through the history of computing and presents some of the women that have been instrumental in advancing the computing industry.

Sarah Dutkiewicz
on Apr 24, 2014

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The Evolution of Windows: WinRT

Raymond Chen tells the story of Windows’ API evolution from the beginning up to its latest version, WinRT.

Raymond Chen
on Nov 01, 2013

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The Ubiquitous Digital Map (Abridged)

Gary Gale revisits some of the important milestones in map development over time up to the digital maps of the present time, noting some of the current developments.

Gary Gale
on May 10, 2013

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Joy of Coding 2013 Keynote: Michael Feathers

Michael Feathers keynotes on the history of programming, what brings joy to this activity and why developers like it.

Michael Feathers
on Apr 24, 2013

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Computer Architecture of the 1960’s

Carlton Mills reviews Algol 60, PL/360, BLISS, Algol W, PL/1, C and C++, considering that rediscovering Algol could solve many of today’s Internet virus attacks and common programming errors.

Carlton Mills
on Dec 14, 2012

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