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Virtual Panel: How Software Engineers and Team Leaders Can Excel with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is impacting the individual work of software developers, how professionals work together in teams, and how software teams are being managed. In this panel, we'll discuss how artificial intelligence is reshaping software development, and what mindset and skills are required for software developers and engineering leaders to become adaptable and resilient in the age of AI.
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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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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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Backend FinOps: Engineering Cost-Efficient Microservices in the Cloud
Backend FinOps integrates financial discipline into microservices, crucial for cutting cloud costs. Challenges such as resource fragmentation and cold starts underscore the need for intelligent design, effective language choice, robust tagging, and automation. Implementing FinOps via IaC, CI/CD checks, and dynamic autoscaling (e.g., Karpenter) ensures sustained efficiency.
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A First-Timer’s Guide to Curating a Technical Conference Track
One first-time track host shares the process, constraints, and takeaways from building a track from scratch at QCon London 2025.
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From Legacy to Value: Building Digital Banking Products across Central and Eastern Europe
This article shares practical experiences and concrete examples from multi-site teams that built a single solution and delivered value to customers across various European markets. It provides real-life stories and lessons learned from developing two banking products, Lending and Foreign Exchange (FX), and their evolving architecture over time.
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Building Strategic Influence as a Staff Engineer or Engineering Manager
To increase your impact and grow your career, you need to be involved in conversations that happen at a greater scope than the scope you have in your current role. Being involved will give you influence over this, help you direct and maximise your impact, and also allow you to bring better context to your day job, and to those working around you.
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How Staff+ Engineers Can Develop Strategic Thinking
This article outlines a personal framework for cultivating strategic thinking at any career stage, with a focus on Staff+ engineers. Whether you're an established Staff+ engineer or someone with aspirations to grow into this role, this article offers the tools, perspectives, and insights you need to navigate your journey to greater influence and impact.
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We Took Developers out of the Portal: How APIOps and IaC Reshaped Our API Strategy
Dynamic API strategist with expertise in transforming legacy management into efficient APIOps frameworks using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Proven track record in automating API lifecycles, enhancing security, and fostering developer productivity through CI/CD integration. Adept at driving operational excellence and consistency across environments, enabling rapid deployment and innovation.
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Developer Joy: a Better Way to Boost Developer Productivity
In this article, Holly and Trisha explore why joy isn’t a distraction from productivity: it’s the secret ingredient. From debugging brain waves in the middle of a jog to cutting out test flakiness, they explain how to reclaim developer satisfaction and boost output by embracing curiosity, minimizing friction, and giving ourselves a break.
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AI Interventions to Reduce Cycle Time in Legacy Modernization
In this article, we share our experiences and insights on how large language models (LLMs) helped us uncover and enhance the conceptual constructs behind software. We discuss how these approaches address the inherent complexity of software engineering and improve the likelihood of success in large, complex software modernization projects.
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How to Scale Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level
This article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences. It maps out career ladders, digs into promotion patterns and the key behaviors that consistently help high-performing engineers to reinvent themselves, and introduces the concept of "staff projects" which top performers use to drive their careers forward.