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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

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Mark Dodgson explores how important ‘play’ is in creating exciting and purposeful work, discussing cases of highly successful ‘playful entrepreneurs.

Mark Dodgson
on Dec 22, 2019

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Architecture & Design

RabbitMQ and Kafka

Zoe Vance, Madhav Sathe discuss the architecture and design of RabbitMQ and Kafka, and how that impacts performance, scalability and app design.

Zoe Vance Madhav Sathe
on Dec 19, 2019

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01:09:11
Architecture & Design

FF4J: Feature Toggling for Spring/Spring Boot Applications

Sasi Peri shows feature toggling using FF4J framework for Spring/Spring Boot applications.

Sasi Peri
on Dec 19, 2019

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55:11
Architecture & Design

Spring Cloud on Kubernetes

Ryan Baxter, Alexandre Roman explain how to build Spring Cloud applications and deploy them to Kubernetes.

Ryan Baxter Alexandre Roman
on Dec 19, 2019

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01:13:56
Architecture & Design

Scaling Beyond a Billion Transactions Per Day with Sub-second Responses

Andrey Zolotov, Gideon Low present their journey of transition to distributed data processing using GemFire and the challenges faced along the way.

Andrey Zolotov Gideon Low
on Dec 19, 2019

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53:36
Architecture & Design

Concurrency, Scalability and Transactions -- Myths and Surprises

Renan Ranelli explores the interaction between massive concurrent servers, databases and transaction isolation.

Renan Ranelli
on Dec 18, 2019

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40:32
Architecture & Design

Parsing JSON Really Quickly: Lessons Learned

Daniel Lemire talks about the lessons learned while writing the fast JSON parser, simdjson. One of the most important lessons is the importance of a nearly obsessive focus on performance.

Daniel Lemire
on Dec 17, 2019

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47:51
Culture & Methods

Coding Without Complexity

Ellen Chisa talks about complexity in software and the need to remove it as much as possible. One possibility is to remove something that is not absolutely needed as a way to reduce complexity.

Ellen Chisa
on Dec 17, 2019

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43:07
Architecture & Design

Evolution of Edge @Netflix

Vasily Vlasov reviews Netflix’s edge gateway ecosystem - multiple traffic gateways performing different functions deployed around the world.

Vasily Vlasov
on Dec 17, 2019

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43:01
Architecture & Design

User & Device Identity for Microservices @ Netflix Scale

Satyajit Thadeshwar provides useful insights on how Netflix implemented a secure, token-agnostic, identity solution that works with services operating at a massive scale.

Satyajit Thadeshwar
on Dec 16, 2019

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47:51
Architecture & Design

Scaling Patterns for Netflix's Edge

Justin Ryan talks about Netflix’ scalability issues and some of the ways they addressed it.

Justin Ryan
on Dec 16, 2019

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49:45
Development

KIT-BASHING THE BLORB - What Happens When All the Dead Come Back and They're Still Really Fun

Jason Scott discusses the status and the future of the Internet Archive.

Jason Scott
on Dec 15, 2019

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