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If Architectures Could Talk, They’d Quote Your Boss
Software architecture reflects how organizations communicate and make decisions. Failures stem from misaligned incentives, unclear ownership, and structural gaps—not technical flaws. Architects must design not just systems, but the conditions for systems to thrive, using platform thinking to reduce friction and foster autonomy.
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Bringing AI Inference to Java with ONNX: a Practical Guide for Enterprise Architects
Java applications can now run transformer-based AI models directly within the JVM—without Python, REST wrappers, or microservices. This guide shows how to integrate ONNX-powered inference with tokenizer support, GPU acceleration, modular deployment, and observability, enabling architects in regulated domains to adopt AI without disrupting compliance or CI/CD workflows.
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A Pipeline Approach to Language Migrations
Automated language migrations can be made reliable and maintainable by structuring them as pipelines with clear, testable stages. This avoids the pitfalls of big-bang rewrites while providing transparency and modularity. The pipeline approach ensures idiomatic code, preserves legacy business logic, and supports large-scale transformations from outdated systems.
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Engineering a Time Series Database Using Open Source: Rebuilding InfluxDB 3 in Apache Arrow and Rust
At times, to evolve your product, you need to rebuild it from scratch. The article provides the story behind the rewrite of InfluxDB from scratch using a different programming language - Rust - and stack - Apache Flight, Data Fusion, Apache Arrow and Parquet (FDAP). It emphasises the benefits, as well as the mechanics behind its operation and the different versions of the product.
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FedCM: a New Proposed Identity Standard That Could Change How We Log in on the Web
FedCM is a new proposed browser API for secure, frictionless, privacy-preserving federated logins. FedCM simplifies user authentication, for both user and developers and reduces the reliance on third-party cookies. The proposal is currently a public working draft moving towards a candidate recommendation from the W3C It's actively developed, with Chromium browsers already supporting it.
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The Virtual Think Tank: Using LLMs to Gain a Multitude of Perspectives
The virtual think tank leverages LLMs to simulate diverse stakeholder and expert perspectives, enabling architects to explore trade-offs, challenge biases, and refine decisions. By prompting personas of real industry experts, the method fosters rich, contextual debates—offering a scalable, low-cost alternative to a traditional think tank.
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Ransomware-Resilient Storage: the New Frontline Defense in a High-Stakes Cyber Battle
Cybersecurity has evolved, with ransomware now primarily targeting data storage and backups. To combat this, modern defense strategies focus on making storage systems more resilient. Key tactics include using immutable storage that prevents data from being altered or deleted, employing AI-powered detection, and implementing air-gapping to create isolated, tamper-proof recovery points.
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Zero-Downtime Critical Cloud Infrastructure Upgrades at Scale
Engineers can avoid common pitfalls in large-scale infrastructure upgrades by studying others' experiences. The article provides lessons learned from big firms like eBay and Snowflake, offering solutions for legacy systems, performance validation, and rollback planning. It emphasizes systematic preparation and clear communication to handle challenges and ensure zero-downtime upgrades at scale.
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Infusing AI into Your Java applications
Equip yourself with the basic AI knowledge and skills you need to start building intelligent and responsive Enterprise Java applications. With the help of our simple chatbot application for booking interplanetary space trips, see how Java frameworks like LangChain4j with Quarkus make it easy and efficient to interact with LLMs and create satisfying applications for end-users.
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One Network: Cloud-Agnostic Service and Policy-Oriented Network Architecture
Bringing together software infrastructure leads to faster development time and easy control of large, spread-out systems through clear rules. In this QCon SF 2024 presentation, Anna Berenberg shared learnings and achievements when building One Network, addressing complex infrastructure layers, open-source integration, and uniform policy enforcement for improved reliability and security.
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Sandbox as a Service: Building an Automated AWS Sandbox Framework
This article outlines an automated AWS Sandbox Framework to provide secure, cost-controlled environments for innovation. It leverages AWS services like Control Tower and open-source tools to automate provisioning, enforce security policies, manage resource lifecycles, and optimize costs through automated cleanup and governance.
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Keep the Terminal Relevant: Patterns for AI Agent Driven CLIs
Well-designed CLIs are crucial in the agentic AI era—serving both human users and autonomous agents with precision and reliability. Treat CLI output formats as stable API contracts and prioritize adoption of the MCP protocol for agent integration from day one.