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Strategic Thinking for Staff+ Engineers
Shweta Saraf discusses a framework for developing strategic thinking at any career stage, with a special focus on Staff+ engineers.
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gRPC Migration Automation at LinkedIn
Karthik Ramgopal and Min Chen discuss how LinkedIn changed the remote procedure calls (RPC) protocol for 50,000 production endpoints from Rest.li to Google's gRPC.
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1BRC–Nerd Sniping the Java Community
Gunnar Morling discusses some of the tricks employed by the fastest solutions for processing a 13 GB input file within less than two seconds through parallelization and efficient memory access.
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Beyond Platform Thinking at RB Global – Build Things No One Expects, in a Place No One Expects It
Ranbir Chawla discusses the strategy to simplify a complex spider web of non-cloud native SAAS and homegrown systems into a well factored API driven platform with well-defined domain boundaries.
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Best Practices to Secure Web Applications
Loiane Groner discusses the best practices for secure coding, input validation techniques, the importance of strategic error handling and logging, and how to manage file uploads safely.
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Evolving Trainline Architecture for Scale, Reliability and Productivity
Milena Nikolic discusses how Trainline's systems architecture has evolved over the past 5 years to cater changes, as well as what's coming next.
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Stateful Cloud Services at Neon: Navigating Design Decisions and Trade-Offs
John Spray discusses the complexities of stateful cloud service design, using Neon Serverless Postgres as a case study, where to put data and how many copies, ensuring availability, scaling a service.
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Mind Your Language Models: an Approach to Architecting Intelligent Systems
Nischal HP discusses the intricacies of designing and implementing intelligent systems powered by LLMs, drawing upon practical insights gained from real-world deployments.
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0 → 1, Shipping Threads in 5 Months
Zahan Malkani shares how they built a microblogging service to compete with Twitter with a small team that shipped a new social network in a few months.
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Turbocharged Development: the Speed and Efficiency of WebAssembly
Danielle Lancashire discusses why Wasm is the most cross-platform unit of compute for serverless applications, and how that translates to efficiency at scale.
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The Art, Science and Psychology of Decision Making
Hannes Ricklefs makes an exploration into the science behind decision-making, with tips and tricks to improve the ability to make sound personal and professional choices.
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Pitfalls of Unified Memory Models in GPUs
Joe Rowell explores the use of unified memory on modern GPU, the low-level details of how unified memory is realized on an x86-64 system, and some of the tools to understand what's happening on a GPU.