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Development

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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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Architecture & Design

Spring HATEOAS: Hypermedia APIs with Spring

Oliver Drotbohm and Greg Turnquist discuss how to build flexible web services using hypermedia with Spring HATEOAS 1.0.

Oliver Drotbohm Greg Turnquist
on Jan 09, 2020

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01:07:06
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Machine Learning 101

Grishma Jena gives an overview of ML and delves deep into the pipeline used - right from fetching the data, the tools and frameworks used to creating models, gaining insights and telling a story.

Grishma Jena
on Jan 07, 2020

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47:43
Architecture & Design

Managing Failure Modes in Microservice Architectures

Adrian Cockcroft explores how to apply some industry standard techniques (including Failure Modes and Effects Analysis) to cloud native microservices architectures.

Adrian Cockcroft
on Jan 07, 2020

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51:33
DevOps

Mind Your State for Your State of Mind

Pat Helland provides a partial taxonomy of diverse storage solutions available over a distributed cluster.

Pat Helland
on Jan 06, 2020

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39:25
DevOps

How to Invest in Technical Infrastructure

Will Larson shares Stripe's approaches to prioritizing infrastructure as a company scales, exploring the whole range of possible areas to invest into infrastructure.

Will Larson
on Jan 06, 2020

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49:23
AI, ML & Data Engineering

ML in the Browser: Interactive Experiences with Tensorflow.js

Victor Dibia provides a friendly introduction to machine learning, covers concrete steps on how front-end developers can create their own ML models and deploy them as part of web applications.

Victor Dibia
on Jan 06, 2020

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50:35
Culture & Methods

Lessons Learned Scrum Mastering Distributed Teams

Antonio Cobo shares lessons learned as a Scrum Master of distributed teams over the last three years.

Antonio Cobo
on Jan 05, 2020

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45:35
Culture & Methods

Sustained Changes in Large Organizations - Examples from Three Huge Transformations

Gordon Weir shares experiences from three LeSS Huge transformations.

Gordon Weir
on Jan 05, 2020

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01:02:23
Development

Joy of Coding 2019: Lightning Talks

In this series of lighting talks the speakers cover a wide range of topics such as accessibility, TCR, OpenSCAD, progress in programming, JavaScript generators, etc.

Frederik Creemers Silke Henderickx Dmitry Kandalov Daan van Berkel Oliver Zeigermann Marc Dekker Francis Stokes Mattijs Meiboom
on Jan 04, 2020

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26:24
Architecture & Design

How Gitlab Scaled Git Access with Go and What We Gained from It

Oswaldo Ferreira discusses the history of how GitLab switched from a Rails monolith to using Feature flags, Protocol Buffers, gRPC and Go.

Oswaldo Ferreira
on Jan 04, 2020

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27:04
Architecture & Design

Building Better Monoliths: Implementing Modulithic Applications with Spring

Oliver Drotbohm identifies the common issues in unstructured monoliths and discusses approaches to package design, component structure, transactions, and the usage of events.

Oliver Drotbohm
on Jan 02, 2020

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01:00:36
DevOps

Best Practices to Spring to Kubernetes Easier and Faster

Ray Tsang introduces tools -Jib, Skaffold- and best practices to adopt Kubernetes faster and easier.

Ray Tsang
on Jan 02, 2020

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01:07:28

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