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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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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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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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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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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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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.

Paul Dix
on Sep 10, 2025
Refactoring Legacy Applications: A Case Study

To refactor legacy code, the ideal is to have a suite of unit tests to prevent regressions. However it's not always that easy. This article describes a methodology to safely refactor legacy code.

Chen Ping
on Feb 27, 2013

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Engineering a Time Series Database Using Open Source: Rebuilding InfluxDB 3 in Apache Arrow and Rust

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A Thirteen Billion-Year-Old Photograph

Cursor 1.7 Adds Hooks for Agent Lifecycle Control

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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

Deploy MultiModal RAG Systems with vLLM

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