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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

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Rockset - Building a Modern Analytics Database on Top of RocksDB

Igor Canadi discusses the architecture of their real-time search analytics SQL database built on RocksDB. He explains their cloud-native design, custom RocksDB replication, shared hot storage solution, and how they optimized RocksDB for efficient analytical queries. Learn about their approach to scalability, low latency, and high concurrency for application-focused databases.

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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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Big Data in Capital Markets

The authors present design patterns and use cases of capital market firms that are incorporating big data technologies into their credit risk analysis, price discovery or sentiment analysis software.

Alex Raitt Clive Saha
on Aug 24, 2014

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Risk Management is Project Management for Grown-Ups

Tim Lister presents the advantages—and the dangers—of practicing risk management in an adult-like fashion, offering a process for tailoring an organization and discussing how it can grow up.

Tim Lister
on Jun 12, 2014

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The Guessing Game: Alternatives to Agile Estimation

Neil Killick proposes ways to reduce risk and uncertainty, calculate a product’s price, determine delivery dates and roadmap, do Scrum and XP without using estimates.

Neil Killick
on Nov 23, 2013

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Equity – Transparent and Live Risk Assessment

Tormod Varhaugvik provides a design and rationale for an In Memory and Big Data architecture for live equity and risk assessment, using Tax Norway’ new architecture as an example.

Tormod Varhaugvik
on Aug 13, 2013

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Keynote: Embracing Uncertainty

Dan North discusses the need to embrace uncertainty of scope, technology, effort and structure, expecting the unexpectable and anticipating ignorance.

Dan North
on Jan 22, 2013

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Risk, Lean Development & Profit: Getting Back to Basics

Robert N. Charette talks about challenging assumptions which leads to discovery and innovation, the relationship between risk and profit in Lean, and about the need to master risk management.

Robert N. Charette
on Jun 15, 2010

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When it Just HAS to Work

This talk gives practical tips for adopting an agile approach to planning, team interactions and risk management. When the culture shifts, teams achieve goals sooner and safety is greatly enhanced.

Nancy Van Schooenderwoert Brian Shoemaker
on Sep 30, 2009

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Realistic about Risk: Software development with Real Options

This session introduces Real Options and shows how it can help in running your project. Real Options is a decision-making process that can be used to manage risk.

Chris Matts Olav Maassen
on Jun 30, 2009

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