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Pulumi Adventures: How Python Empowered My Infrastructure beyond YAML
Adora Nwodo discusses her journey from backend software engineering into the realm of DevOps, exploring how Pulumi became the pivotal tool that empowered her transition.
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Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Caleb Hyde discusses their career progression and regressions, as well the context they used to figure out what to work on and whom to work with, distilling a framework to utilize in one’s own work.
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Delivering Millions of Notifications within Seconds During the Super Bowl
Zhen Zhou discusses how they built/test an on-demand notification system, what it takes to manage cloud resources/site-reliability at the same time, and how to mitigate reliability issues.
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Breaking the Ceiling: Scaling Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level
Thiago Ghisi discusses what defines the staff-plus level, expectations across companies, approaches for high-performing staff-plus engineers, strategies for scaling, and examples of "Staff Projects".
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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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Strangler Things: How to De-risk Legacy Code Migrations
Shawna Martell discusses a case study in which they disentangled systems with no customer impact and zero downtime, how they prioritize feature migration, tooling, and backwards compatibility.
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Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation
Sarah Aslanifar discusses leveraging continuous learning to drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and significantly improve product outcomes, covering the crucial role of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
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Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype
Justin Sheehy discusses the dramatic developments in some areas of artificial intelligence and the need for the responsible use of AI systems.
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Defensible Moats: Unlocking Enterprise Value with Large Language Models
Nischal HP discusses risk mitigation, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) framework implementation to achieve sustainability goals, strategic procurement, spend analytics, data compliance.
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When AIOps Meets MLOps: What it Takes to Deploy ML Models at Scale
Ghida Ibrahim introduces the concept of AIOps referring to using AI and data-driven tooling to provision, manage and scale distributed IT infra.
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The Incident Lifecycle: How a Culture of Resilience Can Help You Accomplish Your Goals
Vanessa Huerta Granda describes how to apply resilience throughout the incident lifecycle in order to turn incidents into opportunities, looking at real-life examples.
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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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