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A Thirteen Billion-Year-Old Photograph

Kenneth Harris, a NASA veteran who worked on the James Webb Space Telescope, shares how hardware and software engineering combine to make the $13 billion observatory function. He explains how the technology mimics the human eye to process infrared light and reveals how software engineers use data packets to transform raw data into stunning, full-color images.

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Architecture & Design

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Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries

Teena Idnani explains how to architect and build resilient event-driven distributed systems in a multi-cloud reality. Using a fictional bank's migration journey, she shares practical, code-level solutions for overcoming major challenges: managing cross-cloud latency, ensuring event ordering and consistency, building resilience by design, and preventing duplicate events.

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AI Infrastructure

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Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

Stephen Batifol discusses building and optimizing self-hosted, multimodal RAG systems. He breaks down vector search, nearest neighbor indexes (FLAT, IVF, HNSW), and the critical role of choosing the right embedding model. He then explains vLLM inference optimization (paged attention, quantization) and uses Mistral's Pixtral to detail multimodal large language model architecture.

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Culture & Methods

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Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software

This article lays out some of the common assumptions and misconceptions about automation and its role in software (and software incidents), what our research has found regarding how automation shows up in software incidents, and some ideas around how people can better design automated tools to help people better handle software incidents.

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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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Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About 2025

This eMag explores the challenges of modernizing, migrating, and scaling applications, spotlighting architectures that are redefining what is possible in software today.

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The InfoQ eMag: Microservices vs. Monoliths - The Reality Beyond the Hype

This eMag includes articles written by experts who have implemented successful, maintainable systems across both microservices and monoliths.

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A Thirteen Billion-Year-Old Photograph

Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries

Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software

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

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Architectures You’ve Always Wondered About 2025

The InfoQ eMag: Microservices vs. Monoliths - The Reality Beyond the Hype

A Thirteen Billion-Year-Old Photograph

Cursor 1.7 Adds Hooks for Agent Lifecycle Control

Myth Busters: is Rust a Slam Dunk?

11 Sessions Not to Miss at QCon San Francisco 2025

Building Distributed Event-Driven Architectures Across Multi-Cloud Boundaries

Uber Achieves 150M Reads per Second with CacheFront Improvements

Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Automation in Software

Using Brain Science to Communicate and Lead Technical Teams Effectively

Combining Continuous Delivery with Pair Programming: Lessons Learned

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Tops SWE-Bench Verified, Extends Coding Focus Beyond 30 Hours

PlanetScale Extends Database Platform to PostgreSQL

Google DeepMind Introduces CodeMender, an AI Agent for Automated Code Repair

Azure Container Storage v2.0.0 Goes GA with Major Performance Boost

GitHub Adds Post-Quantum Secure SSH Key Exchange to Protect Git Data in Transit

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

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