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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

Rockset - Building a Modern Analytics Database on Top of RocksDB

Igor Canadi discusses the architecture of their real-time search analytics SQL database built on RocksDB. He explains their cloud-native design, custom RocksDB replication, shared hot storage solution, and how they optimized RocksDB for efficient analytical queries. Learn about their approach to scalability, low latency, and high concurrency for application-focused databases.

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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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Culture & Methods

Passion, Grace, & Fire - The Elements of High Performance

Josh Evans talks about the elements of high performance - passion, grace, and fire -, and what really matters when trying to build, shape, and guide teams for high performance.

Josh Evans
on Feb 10, 2020

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Architecture & Design

Self-Driving Cars as Edge Computing Devices

Matt Ranney explains the architecture of Uber ATG’s self-driving cars and takes a look at how the software is developed, tested, and deployed.

Matt Ranney
on Feb 10, 2020

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Culture & Methods

#NoProcesses - Getting More Done by Doing Less!

Dave Rooney examines the two key principles common to all successful software delivery approaches and builds outwards based on the experience of the participants.

Dave Rooney
on Feb 09, 2020

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Culture & Methods

Help! No Managers?

Ralph van Roosmalen discusses agile management, self-organizing teams, and organizations without managers.

Ralph van Roosmalen
on Feb 09, 2020

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42:25
Culture & Methods

Managing for Serendipity

Liz Keogh looks at some different strategies for approaching complex ecosystems, starting from status quo, and allowing innovation to emerge through obliquity, naivety, and serendipity.

Liz Keogh
on Feb 09, 2020

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Web Development

Full Stack Angular: Live Coding and Discussion

Kyle Cordes demos the creation of an Angular+Node+Nest+GraphQL project.

Kyle Cordes
on Feb 06, 2020

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Culture & Methods

Mutation Testing: Case Studies on Spring Boot APIs

Heather Conklin, David Kaiser examine the benefits of mutation testing, with real-world examples of what happened with apparently well-covered code put through the process.

Heather Conklin David Kaiser
on Feb 05, 2020

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Architecture & Design

Making Translytical Applications Reactive: Lessons Learned Implementing an R2DBC Driver for SAP HANA

Jonathan Bregler overviews the lessons learned while implementing a reactive relational database connectivity (R2DBC) driver for the SAP HANA database.

Jonathan Bregler
on Feb 05, 2020

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26:31
Cloud

What's New in Pivotal Spring Cloud Products

Gareth Clay and Bella Bai introduce the features provided by these latest Spring Cloud products.

Gareth Clay Bella Bai
on Feb 05, 2020

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26:48
Architecture & Design

Platform Health Assessment at Department of Homeland Security Citizenship and Immigration Services

Chris Saunders, Kelly Walsh, Paul Beccio and Matthew Dosberg discuss the journey DHS-CIS took to move their system on Pivotal.

Chris Saunders Kelly Walsh Paul Beccio Matthew Dosberg
on Feb 05, 2020

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Java

Does Java Need Inline Types? What Project Valhalla Can Bring to Java

Sergey Kuksenko talks about the performance benefits inline types bring to Java and how to exploit them. Inline/value types are the key part of experimental project Valhalla.

Sergey Kuksenko
on Feb 04, 2020

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

ML's Hidden Tasks: A Checklist for Developers When Building ML Systems

Jade Abbott discusses the set of unexpected things that go on the "take it to production" checklist in the case of machine learning, and what are the tools that can help.

Jade Abbott
on Feb 04, 2020

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