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Development

Beat the Plan: Probabilistic Strategies for Successful Software Delivery at Scale

Large-scale software delivery demands managing complexity across teams and organizations. Similarly to betting strategies in Vegas, embracing probabilistic thinking helps tackle uncertainty, shifting from rigid plans to adaptive systems. By making informed bets and designing for change, leaders can control volatility, respond to evolving conditions, and drive success in dynamic environments.

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Architecture & Design

Sidecar-less or Sidecars for Your Applications in Istio Service Mesh?

Lin Sun discusses the choice between sidecar-less or sidecar, when to consider a sidecar-less implementation, how to migrate between these data plan options, what are the implications.

AI, ML & Data Engineering

Dataflow-based Query Caching with Readyset

Alana Marzoev discusses the fundamentals of streaming dataflow and the architecture of ReadySet, a streaming dataflow system designed for operational workloads.

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Culture & Methods

Virtual Panel: How to Become a Principal Engineer

As a software engineer or individual contributor, the next step in your career can be to become a principal engineer. The path to becoming a principal engineer at companies can feel unclear, which can inhibit individual engineering careers. But that also provides opportunities for engineers to invent and shape the role of principal engineers.

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DevOps

From Local to Production: a Modern Developer’s Journey towards Kubernetes

Urvashi Mohnani discusses the full developer experience of writing an application, containerizing it locally, deploying it to a Kubernetes cluster, and debugging Kubernetes applications locally.