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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

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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

Navigating LLM Deployment: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Meryem Arik shares best practices for self-hosting LLMs in corporate environments, highlighting the importance of cost efficiency and performance optimization. She details quantized models, batching, and workload optimizations to improve LLM serving. Insights cover model selection and infrastructure consolidation, emphasizing the differences between enterprise and large-scale AI lab deployments.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Making Change Stick: Lessons Learned From Helping Teams Improve at the Co-Op

Neil Vass discusses Co-op's unique 180-year history and its impact on modern software development practices within the organization. He explains the evolution of Co-op Digital, from its early adoption of agile principles inspired by GDS to its current challenges in scaling and sustaining effective ways of working across diverse teams.

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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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Culture & Methods

Better Project Forecasts without Estimates – The Monte Carlo

Adrian Fittolani introduces the Monte Carlo Simulation, an empirical mathematical method used to estimate project timelines.

Adrian Fittolani
on Nov 06, 2016

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Development

Category Theory for the Working Hacker

Philip Wadler on why category theory is relevant for developers, discussing the principle of Propositions as Types connecting propositions and proofs in logic, and types and programs in computing.

Philip Wadler
on Jul 28, 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 01, 2016

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47:56
Development

Finally, Object-Oriented Programming without Objection

Noel Welsh discusses the paradigm of the functional programmer, contrasting it with the paradigm of the object-oriented programmer, and considering if it is possible to reconcile the two.

Noel Welsh
on Jun 23, 2016

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Culture & Methods

How to Win Hearts and Minds

Chris Young and Kate Gray talk about applying methods used in political campaigns to the workplace to achieve goals and to influence and change a situation for the better.

Chris Young Kate Gray
on May 07, 2016

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Architecture & Design

DDD and Microservices: At Last, Some Boundaries!

Eric Evans introduces a few strategic design concepts and explains how they apply to development of microservices, as a tool for teams trying to grow large systems more coherently.

Eric Evans
on Apr 16, 2016

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Development

The Last Programming Language

Robert Martin walks through some of the history of programming languages, and then prognosticates on the future of languages.

Robert Martin
on Feb 03, 2016

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55:43
Web Development

Getting Started with Chrome Extensions: Tips and Tricks

Andrew Dunkman explains the basics of Chrome extension development, how to avoid an extension being automatically disabled when performing upgrades, and some unexpected Chrome hooks.

Andrew Dunkman
on Jan 19, 2016

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Architecture & Design

Enabling Microservices with Domain Driven Design and Ports & Adapters

Declan Whelan discusses how to use DDD to wrap microservices around the most important concepts in a system, using ports and adapters to decouple the core domain from persistence and other services.

Declan Whelan
on Jan 12, 2016

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Culture & Methods

Make Your Team's Domain Language Truly Ubiquitous with Concept Maps

James Ross discusses what concept maps are, how to construct one, what to do and what to avoid when creating one, and how to help a team build a shared mental model depicted in a concept map.

James Ross
on Jan 10, 2016

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.NET

Exploring Domain Driven Design Implementation Patterns in .NET, Part 2/2

Steve Bohlen introduces DDD principles and concepts, and explores various patterns -Repositories, Specifications, Entities, Value Objects, Services, etc. - useful for implementing DDD in .NET code.

Steve Bohlen
on Dec 11, 2015

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.NET

Exploring Domain Driven Design Implementation Patterns in .NET, Part 1/2

Steve Bohlen introduces DDD principles and concepts, and explores various patterns -Repositories, Specifications, Entities, Value Objects, Services, etc. - useful for implementing DDD in .NET code.

Steve Bohlen
on Dec 06, 2015

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