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Go Channels: Understanding Happens-Before for Safe Concurrency

This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory visibility, synchronization, and concurrency correctness. We'll examine subtle pitfalls, illustrate them with examples, and explore the architectural implications for system designers.

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Architecture & Design

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Effective Error Handling: A Uniform Strategy for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

Jenish Shah, a back-end engineer focused on distributed systems at Netflix, provides more insights on how to handle failures in a distributed systems setup. He shares details on how he built a library that handles exceptions uniformly, regardless of the underlying communication protocol.

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AI Infrastructure

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Vector Sync Patterns: Keeping AI Features Fresh When Your Data Changes

Ricardo Ferreira shares 5 essential Vector Sync Patterns designed to solve the complex, multi-dimensional challenges of vector staleness and synchronization in AI-driven microservices. He explains how to leverage event-driven architecture (Kafka/Flink) and CDC to reliably manage data, application, and business-driven changes for architects and senior developers.

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Culture & Methods

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Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself As Your Company Grows

Suhail Patel discusses how senior engineers and tech leaders must go beyond technical mastery to achieve staff-plus growth. He explains how to leverage one-to-ones, intentional interviewing (as learning opportunities), and visible writing to build influence and your network. Get practical advice on making ambitious bets and fixing organizational cracks to grow your team and company.

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DevOps

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From Grassroots to Enterprise: Vanguard's Journey in SRE Transformation

Christina Yakomin shares Vanguard's SRE transformation: from quarterly testing of monoliths to a mature DevOps model with continuous delivery. She explains the SRE coaching hub, self-service tools, and advanced techniques like request-rate autoscaling. She details modern challenges, including region failure game days and testing AI-backed contact centers.

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Decisions, Decisions

Dan North engages the audience into a discussion about the tradeoffs involved in making decisions regarding the team composition, development style, architecture, and deployment solutions.

Dan North
on Apr 24, 2012

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Agile by the Numbers: What People Are Really Doing in Practice

This talk summarizes the results of 4 years of industry surveys around agile technique adoption and effectiveness. Reality can be very different from the rhetoric in mailing lists, articles and books.

Scott Ambler
on Sep 10, 2009

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Go Channels: Understanding Happens-Before for Safe Concurrency

Effective Error Handling: A Uniform Strategy for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

Vector Sync Patterns: Keeping AI Features Fresh When Your Data Changes

Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself As Your Company Grows

From Grassroots to Enterprise: Vanguard's Journey in SRE Transformation

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Decisions, Decisions

Agile by the Numbers: What People Are Really Doing in Practice

Meta Open Sources OpenZL: a Universal Compression Framework for Structured Data

Go Channels: Understanding Happens-Before for Safe Concurrency

A Thirteen Billion-Year-Old Photograph

The Architectural Shift: AI Agents Become Execution Engines While Backends Retreat to Governance

Rust Rewrite Enables Cloudflare to Boost CDN Performance and Enhance Security

Effective Error Handling: A Uniform Strategy for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems

Changing a Career from Developing Software to Test Automation

Shine Bright as an IC: Growing Yourself As Your Company Grows

From Technical Excellence to Leadership: Understanding Yourself First

PyTorch Foundation Welcomes Ray, Unveils Monarch for Simplified Distributed AI

Inside the Architectures Powering Modern AI Systems: QCon San Francisco 2025

Anthropic Expands Claude Code to Web and Mobile Platforms

CNCF Highlights How vCluster Eases Kubernetes Multi-Tenancy Challenges

Inside Duolingo’s FinOps Journey: Turning Cloud Spend into Engineering Insight

New Infrastructure-as-Code Tool "formae" Takes Aim at Terraform

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