Sponsored by Chainguard  Engineers spend only 16% of time on new features, held back by maintenance, security, and tooling. This session uncovers system-level bottlenecks and shows how metrics, automation, and platform practices help teams reclaim focus and accelerate innovation. Live Webinar, December 11th, 2025 — Save Your Seat. |
 In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Randy Shoup about how to evolve your software after a software failure, and how to improve the resilience of your software by modeling transient states using events and workflows. Software failure is inevitable, but learning from failure, including making the necessary changes to organizational culture can make your software more resilient. (Podcast) |
 In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jon Kern and Anita Zbieg about how AI amplifies both delivery efficiency and weaknesses in development teams, the importance of fundamental collaboration practices, and maintaining holistic system thinking. (Podcast) |
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 In this article, author Elakkiya Daivam discusses why Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic caching techniques are powerful levers for reducing false positives in AI powered applications. She shares the insights from a production-grade evaluation with 1,000 query variations tested across seven bi-encoder models. (Article) |
 Vivek Gupta shares best practices for managing and mentoring ML engineers, from early-career development to senior leadership growth. He breaks down the crucial, distinct skills for Production Machine Learning, including data/model management, building training pipelines, LLM prompt evaluation, privacy/security, and integrating human-in-the-loop processes for reliable, scalable AI systems. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Sponsored by Boomi  As API ecosystems grow, keeping connectors aligned with changing schemas, auth models, and integration patterns is a challenge. This session explores how GenAI is automating schema interpretation, generating ingestion templates, and speeding integration across REST APIs. Live Webinar, Dec 4th, 2025 — Save Your Seat. |
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 Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions meant to simplify become hidden fragility points. Success requires profiling on target hardware, relentlessly monitoring boring details, keeping hot paths lean, and trusting instrumentation over theory. (Article) |
Sponsored by Super Tokens  Too many developers copy OAuth snippets without understanding them—leading to insecure flows. This guide breaks down what OAuth is, how it enables secure login and API access, and when to use each grant type for SSO, mobile apps, and integrations. Learn More. |
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| On October 19th and 20th, AWS experienced an extended outage triggered by a failure in Amazon DynamoDB that affected most services in its most popular region, Northern Virginia. The cloud provider released an analysis of the incident, sparking discussions in the community about redundancy on AWS, moving out of public cloud, and multi-region approaches. (News) |
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 Jinsong Yu shares deep architectural insights into the Orion AR glasses, detailing the use of 11 custom microcontrollers for thermal dissipation, the SLAM/VIO needed for world-locked rendering, and input fusion (EMG, eye/hand tracking). He concludes with critical lessons for technical leaders on setting direction, managing complexity through testing, and strategic hardware-software co-design. (Presentation with transcript included) |
Sponsored by ScyllaDB  In this comprehensive guide, Martin Kleppmann helps you navigate the diverse and fast-changing landscape of approaches to processing and storing data for data-intensive applications. Understand the distributed systems research upon which modern databases are built, learn from the data architectures of major online services, and more. Download Now. |
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| There was a flurry of activity in the OpenJDK ecosystem during the week of November 3, 2025, highlighting three JEPs elevated from Proposed to Target to Targeted and three JEPs elevated from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 26. The proposed release schedule has also been finalized. (News) |
Sponsored by Akka  As Agentic AI systems—autonomous, context‑aware agents—become part of modern software delivery, distributed architectures must evolve to handle their scale, complexity, and real‑time decision‑making. This guide explores principles, patterns, and best practices—elasticity, latency, failure recovery, consistency, and consensus—for building high‑availability systems ready for the AI‑driven future. Download Now. |
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| Microsoft recently released a security advisory and patched a critical vulnerability in ASP.NET Core that allows an attacker to bypass a security feature over a network due to an inconsistent interpretation of HTTP requests. With a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10, CVE-2025-55315 is the highest-rated Microsoft vulnerability. (News) |
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 Building resilient platforms requires understanding the art and science of creating infrastructure that others depend on for critical applications. This perspective applies to anyone who builds software consumed by others at scale. Whether developing infrastructure platforms, software development platforms, or messaging systems, principles address how to build software that others consume at scale (Article) |
Sponsored by Signadot  As teams scale, staging becomes a bottleneck. Brex unlocked their developer velocity with on-demand sandboxes, helping 100s of engineers ship faster.
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 Holly Cummins & Trisha Gee explain how to achieve the "Double Win" - boosting both developer joy and productivity. They expose the flaws of traditional metrics, identify sources of developer toil (slow builds, flaky tests), and share methods and techniques (like boredom and play) for engineering leaders and architects to unlock creativity and a 31% boost in positive-brain productivity. (Presentation with transcript included) |
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