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Development

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Fearless Programming with Rust

Senyo Simpson discusses how Rust's core values lead to "fearless programming." He shares front-line experience with Rust, including its application in a high-performance proxy. He explores the language's strengths in predictability and correctness, while also acknowledging its complexities and providing guidance on when to choose Rust for long-term projects.

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Architecture & Design

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Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed Systems

Sam Newman discusses the three golden rules of distributed computing and how they necessitate robust handling of timeouts, retries, and idempotency. He provides practical, data-driven strategies for implementing these principles, including using request IDs and server-side fingerprinting to create safe, resilient distributed systems.

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AI Infrastructure

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Why Rust Will Help You Deliver Better Low-latency Systems and Happier Developers

Andrew Lamb, a veteran of database engine development, shares his thoughts on why Rust is the right tool for developing low-latency systems, not only from the perspective of the code’s performance, but also looking at productivity and developer joy. He discusses the overall experience of adopting Rust after a decade of programming in C/C++.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Systems Thinking for Building Resilient Engineering Organizations

Michelle Alexander explains how to build and scale an effective engineering organization. She shares a framework for intentionally structuring a company's systems, from career frameworks to operational reviews. Alexander also provides practical advice on using AI to streamline processes and how to navigate common leadership challenges.

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DevOps

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Is WebAssembly the Secure, Efficient Alternative Everybody was Waiting for?

Laurent Doguin and Geoffroy Couprie discuss their pioneering work with Wasm on the infrastructure side. They walk us through the benefits and challenges of building a platform over WebAssembly and why it’s the safer alternative to containers.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Ben Christensen on Resilience at Netflix with Hystrix, Reactive Programming for the JVM with RxJava

Ben Christensen on Resilience at Netflix with Hystrix, Reactive Programming for the JVM with RxJava

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Ben Christensen works on the Netflix API Platform team responsible for fault tolerance, performance, and scale so millions of customers can access Netflix. Specializing in Java and through web and server-side dev, Ben gained an interest and skill in building maintainable, performant, high-volume systems. Before Netflix, Ben was at Apple in the iTunes division making iOS apps and media available.

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Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

Apr 25, 2013

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