Yao Yue discusses the fundamental limitations of standard line charts for system observability. Drawing from 15 years of operating large-scale systems, she shares how engineering leaders and...

In this article, author Srikanth Mamidala discusses the data lake architecture used for analytics, reporting, and machine learning and shows how to manage the consumer lag metrics when using Kafka...

DuckDB Labs has previewed DuckDB v2.0, codenamed "Cyanoptera." This release includes over 10000 commits and introduces a client/server mode, enabling network connections. Improvements also...

Only a few software teams are seeing real impact from incorporating AI. The key is launching an AI-driven redesign of the entire product development system, rather than just deploying new tools.

The AI policies across the Linux ecosystem are very heterogeneous, ranging from the GCC’s restrictiveness, the Linux kernel’s pragmatism, to the more open disclosure-based utility model of...

QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management,...

Many founder-led companies freeze at the $1 billion to $10 billion valuation stage. Those that scale reinvent their business, people—and themselves—at five key inflection points.

Andy Brinkmeyer shares how engineering leaders and architects can use Rust to build failure-proof systems. Moving beyond memory safety, he explains how ownership, enums, and the typestate pattern...

Global steel investment is flat, but DRI-EAF production is gaining share in advanced economies.

The name got there first “Vibe coding” is a useful description of a specific, low-accountability behavior. You describe something loosely, accept what the model generates, and don’t concern...

With the Reactive Data Layer Architecture (RDLA), you establish a clear boundary between public data APIs and private, framework-specific data-source implementations. Your presentation layer...

Adi Polak discusses the architecture required to transition from stateless prompts to state-aware, context-rich AI agents. Drawing on 15 years in distributed systems, she shares how engineering...

Senior Solution Architect Viktor Vedmich shares how engineering leaders can maximize application performance using Valkey. He discusses the open-source Redis fork's 100% API compatibility,...

As attention focuses on stablecoins, a larger $4 trillion transformation is underway, integrating bank deposits and central bank assets into a unified global monetary stack.

Netflix’s Kasia Trapszo discusses the transition from writing code to scaling organizations. She shares lessons on building trust through technical clarity, aligning teams to solve the "right"...

As official development assistance declines, the education funding gap in low-income countries widens. Philanthropy can play a vital role in catalyzing new capital into education.

Anysphere released Cursor 3, a redesigned interface built from scratch that shifts the primary model from file editing to managing parallel coding agents. The new workspace supports local-to-cloud...