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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

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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

Beyond Chatbots: Architecting Domain-Specific Generative AI for Operational Decision-Making

This article explores the use of domain-specific Generative AI, models that understand operational constraints, real-world dynamics, and business rules to generate executable strategies, not just text descriptions. These models require significantly smaller datasets and fewer parameters, making them cost-effective while enabling AI-driven core business decision intelligence at scale.

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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

Optimizing Yourself: Neurodiversity in Tech

Elizabeth Schneider talks about the issues she has faced as an autistic individual in the industry. She also talks about ways that we can help others in the industry.

Elizabeth Schneider
on Jan 02, 2020

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Practical Change Data Streaming Use Cases with Apache Kafka & Debezium

Gunnar Morling discusses practical matters, best practices for running Debezium in production on and off Kubernetes, and the many use cases enabled by Kafka Connect's single message transformations.

Gunnar Morling
on Jan 01, 2020

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Culture & Methods

Holistic EdTech & Diversity

Antoine Patton discusses how he is leveraging his unique experiences to help solve the problems of people with similar experiences.

Antoine Patton
on Jan 01, 2020

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Culture & Methods

Mapping the Evolution of Socio-Technical Systems

Cat Swetel uses Wardley Maps to examine the evolution of computing and explores potential futures.

Cat Swetel
on Jan 01, 2020

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Culture & Methods

Focusing on Culture to Fast-track Agility

Anna El Ali, Jody Weir share the 3C framework used for successfully creating culture movements to help Agile ways of working flourish.

Anna El Ali Jody Weir
on Dec 29, 2019

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Architecture & Design

GraphQL + Apollo Server + Azure Functions = Magic

Erick Wendel introduces Azure Functions and discusses building a serverless solution with GraphQL and Apollo Server.

Erick Wendel
on Dec 28, 2019

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34:12
Web Development

Micro-front-ends: The Golden Circle

Bruno Vercelino da Hora discusses micro-front-ends, what they are and what they are good for.

Bruno Vercelino da Hora
on Dec 28, 2019

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.NET

Apache Kafka Event-streaming Platform for .NET Developers

Viktor Gamov reviews Kafka -internal architecture, fault-tolerance, message durability- and how the Confluent .NET client offers a framework for computation over streaming data.

Viktor Gamov
on Dec 27, 2019

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01:12:09
Development

From Idea to Dev to Ops

James Ward, Josh Long, Matt Raible show how to regain some of the simplicity by taking advantage of the latest in cloud services and Spring.

James Ward Josh Long Matt Raible
on Dec 27, 2019

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01:09:38
Architecture & Design

Build Your Own WebAssembly Compiler

Colin Eberhardt looks at some of the internals of WebAssembly, explores how it works “under the hood”, and looks at how to create a (simple) compiler that targets this runtime.

Colin Eberhardt
on Dec 23, 2019

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41:46
Architecture & Design

Beyond Microservices: Streams, State and Scalability

Gwen Shapira talks about how microservices evolved in the last few years, based on experience gained while working with companies using Apache Kafka to update their application architecture.

Gwen Shapira
on Dec 23, 2019

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Culture & Methods

Mistakes and Discoveries While Cultivating Ownership

Aaron Blohowiak talks about Netflix’s model of the five levels of Ownership: Demonstration, Oversight, Observation, Execution and Vision. He shares his mistakes and what they have learned so far.

Aaron Blohowiak
on Dec 23, 2019

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