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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

If Architectural Experimentation Is So Great, Why Aren’t You Doing It?

Architectural experimentation sounds like a great idea, yet it does not seem to be used very frequently. In this article, we will explore some of the reasons why teams don’t use this powerful tool more often, and what they can do about leveraging that tool for successful outcomes.

AI Infrastructure

Powering User Experiences with Streaming Dataflow

Alana Marzoev discusses the fundamentals of streaming dataflow and the architecture of ReadySet, a streaming dataflow system designed specifically for operational workloads.

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

Efficient DevSecOps Workflows with a Little Help from AI

Michael Friedrich tells a story about experienced pain points, wasted hours debugging and solving, and learning how a little help from AI makes DevSecOps workflows efficient again.