Colby Morgan discusses practical strategies and technical examples for building accessible and inclusive XR experiences. Learn about their core design principles, including accessibility at the start, invisible features, simplicity, and layered depth, using Walkabout Mini Golf as a case study. By Colby Morgan

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Pablo Fredrikson, a principal engineer at Bitso, about the importance of building a personal brand, sharing knowledge, and helping others in the tech industry. By Pablo Fredrikson

This third article in a series answers some frequently asked questions about architectural experiments. Architectural experiments test critical decisions to reduce risks and costs, using well-defined hypotheses and results for clarity. They are structured, not unfocused, exploratory learning. By Pierre Pureur, Kurt Bittner

Igor Canadi discusses the architecture of their real-time search analytics SQL database built on RocksDB. He explains their cloud-native design, custom RocksDB replication, shared hot storage solution, and how they optimized RocksDB for efficient analytical queries. Learn about their approach to scalability, low latency, and high concurrency for application-focused databases. By Igor Canadi

Stéphane Di Cesare discusses DKB's experience introducing a product mindset within their platform team, explaining their definition of a platform team, the rationale behind the shift, and their journey including challenges, goals, and key learnings around user value, platform definition, maturity models, and effective communication strategies for senior software developers and engineering leaders. By Stéphane Di Cesare

This article explores the use of domain-specific Generative AI, models that understand operational constraints, real-world dynamics, and business rules to generate executable strategies, not just text descriptions. These models require significantly smaller datasets and fewer parameters, making them cost-effective while enabling AI-driven core business decision intelligence at scale. By Abhishek Goswami

Neil Vass discusses Co-op's unique 180-year history and its impact on modern software development practices within the organization. He explains the evolution of Co-op Digital, from its early adoption of agile principles inspired by GDS to its current challenges in scaling and sustaining effective ways of working across diverse teams. By Neil Vass

Amitai Stern discusses cost-saving autoscaling topologies for OpenSearch. He explains the inherent challenges in autoscaling unstructured data systems like OpenSearch and Elasticsearch, using analogies to illustrate the complexities beyond simply adding nodes. He shares architectural patterns (burst indexes, burst clusters) to optimize resource utilization and handle fluctuating loads effectively. By Amitai Stern

This article shows how you can compute a function across multiple parties that do not trust each other without forcing them to share their individual inputs. This technique can be used to split secrets among parties, perform logical operations, or count votes in a way that ensures data privacy is preserved. By Debasish Ray Chawdhuri

Meryem Arik shares best practices for self-hosting LLMs in corporate environments, highlighting the importance of cost efficiency and performance optimization. She details quantized models, batching, and workload optimizations to improve LLM serving. Insights cover model selection and infrastructure consolidation, emphasizing the differences between enterprise and large-scale AI lab deployments. By Meryem Arik

Elevate your disaster recovery strategy with DiRMA—an innovative framework for assessing and enhancing Disaster Recovery Testing (DiRT) maturity across people, processes, and tools. As chaos engineering becomes essential for resilience, DiRMA guides organizations through structured improvement, addressing cultural hurdles and ensuring robust recovery readiness in the face of modern challenges. By Yury Niño Roa

Olga Kubassova shares her journey from mathematician to CEO, detailing how engineering skills translate into business leadership. She discusses building a company, emphasizing team dynamics, strategic growth, and overcoming challenges. Learn how to leverage your technical background for entrepreneurship and navigate business complexities. By Olga Kubassova

In the "Act One: From Chatbots to AI Agents" eMag we’ve curated a collection of articles that explore the exciting transition from the familiar realm of chatbots to the more dynamic and autonomous world of AI agents. The eMag offers both practical insights and forward-looking perspectives on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. By InfoQ

Nischal HP discusses the critical role of data credibility in combating greenwashing and enabling effective climate action. He shares how technology can be used to create verifiable data on carbon sequestration, empowering farmers and corporations to participate in carbon markets. By Nischal HP

Software design with resilience is an acknowledgement to the reality that everything fails. We put metrics in place to help us detect and resolve such problems and failures. Flow metrics, commonly used to measure how well teams deliver software, can be used to measure and improve system resilience. By Mourjo Sen

Jemma Hussein Allen explains practical approaches to CI/CD, GitOps, and team collaboration, aimed at enhancing the software development lifecycle. She highlights the benefits of automation, the importance of clear responsibilities, and the positive impact of psychological safety on team performance and project outcomes. By Jemma Hussein Allen

David Cheney discusses the architecture which powers GitHub Copilot, a LLM powered Code Completion service. By David Cheney

In this podcast, Max Rydahl Andersen, distinguished engineer at RedHat and the creator of JBang discusses how continuously learning from other ecosystems and adopting new tools allows you to simplify your thinking and systems. This will increase the developer joy of the coders and further obtain safer and more robust systems. By Max Rydahl Andersen

Alexandru Ene features details of a new UI SDK in Rust for Prime Video that targets living room devices. By Alexandru Ene

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Claire Vo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly, about building high-performing, customer-centric teams, fostering a culture of experimentation, and preparing for the future of AI-driven software development. By Claire Vo

In this article, author Bilgin Ibryam discusses various AI trends disrupting the overall software development process and tools, and how these trends are influencing different IT teams like developers, operations, technical writers, and SaaS service providers. By Bilgin Ibryam

Ivan Burmistrov shares how ShareChat built their own Real-time Feature Platform serving more than 1 billion features per second, and how they managed to make it cost efficient. By Ivan Burmistrov

Santosh Yadav discusses the world of Nx, maintaining a large Angular code base, CI/CD, release strategy, feature flags, introducing new tools to the codebase. By Santosh Yadav

Choosing the right message broker for your application requires matching the appropriate technology with the messaging patterns needed. Message brokers can be broadly categorized as either stream-based or queue-based, each offering unique strengths and trade-offs. By Nehme Bilal

Jessica Andersson discusses Platform Engineering, how to start small, strategies and tradeoffs, gaining adoption from developers, and the future. By Jessica Andersson

Moumita Bhattacharya overviews the industry search and recommendations systems, goes into modeling choices, data requirements and infrastructural requirements, while highlighting challenges. By Moumita Bhattacharya

In this podcast, Felix GV, Principal Staff Engineer at LinkedIn, discusses how to create and operate planet-scale data storage solutions for derived data. When it’s time to build a new system, how do you decide on the pieces that must be fitted to ensure a resilient operating system? By Felix GV

This article explores efficient preloading systems for mobile video streaming apps, balancing user experience with technical constraints. We will dive into practical implementation strategies that leverage network intelligence, buffer management techniques, AI-driven preloading, and real-world testing methodologies to enhance video delivery in mobile environments. By Ankit Awasthi

In this article, author discusses a machine learning pipeline with observability built-in for credit card fraud detection use case, with tools like MLflow, FastAPI, Streamlit, Apache Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, and Evidently AI. By Lakshmithejaswi Narasannagari

Khawaja Shams explores the essence of calculated risks, discussing why taking these risks, how to identify and mitigate potential downsides, and the characteristics of good risks. By Khawaja Shams

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sagar Batchu about building engineering teams in different environments, the transition from individual contributor to leadership roles, the importance of culture and autonomy in organizations, and the implications of AI agents on the future of APIs. By Sagar Batchu

Richard Startin explores the relationship between complexity and performance through the lens of recent improvements to the Java String class, visiting continuous profiling and some assembly code. By Richard Startin

Leo Hanisch discusses the challenges of the "Lambda-Lith" approach and the benefits of embracing EDAs. By Leo Hanisch

Adora Nwodo explores the complexities of seamlessly integrating multiple clouds into an application's architecture, deployment processes, and CI/CD pipelines. By Adora Nwodo

In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke with Lizzie Matusov about the dependency of effective, productive, and satisfied teams on good software architecture. Understanding this relationship requires understanding exactly what software productivity really is, how modern software engineering research has become more rigorous and practical, and how to apply that research to software development. By Lizzie Matusov

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime. By Utku Darilmaz