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Development

Fast, Scalable, Secure: WebAssembly and the Future of Isolation

Tal Garfinkel discusses the isolation technologies that underlie WebAssembly, and the limitations of the current state-of-the-art.

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Architecture & Design

The Set Piece Strategy: Tackling Complexity in Serverless Applications

In this article, Senior Engineering Manager and AWS Serverless Hero Sheen Brisals examines how the characteristics of serverless such as optimization, robust availability and scalability influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces, a concept from moviemaking. The contents of this article were presented during QCon London 2024.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

Generative Search: Practical Advice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

Sam Partee discusses Vector embeddings in LLMs, a tool capable of capturing the essence of unstructured data used by LLMs to gain access to a wealth of contextually relevant knowledge.

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Culture & Methods

Technical Excellence, Team Productivity and Scrum Anti-Patterns

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Stefan Wolpers about trends in product management, engineering productivity and the Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide.

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DevOps

Using GreenOps to Improve Your Operational Efficiency and Save the Planet

Our infrastructures have environmental and economic costs; the IT sector is responsible for 1.4% of carbon emissions worldwide. GreenOps can be used to help mitigate this impact.