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At QCon London, Sam Newman - the architect who has attributed the coining of the term microservices, went back to the basics to underline the three critical things to get right when working with distributed systems: timeouts, retries and idempotency. ...

Jon Topper, AWS Ambassador and founder of The Scale Factory, shared key insights at QCon London 2025 on building effective SaaS solutions. He highlighted pitfalls, stressing the importance of multi-tenancy from day one, automating tenant provisioning ...

As their organization grew, Thiago Ghisi's work as director of engineering shifted from being hands-on in emergencies to designing frameworks and delegating decisions. He suggested treating changes as experiments, documenting reorganizations, and ...

At QCon London 2025, Teena Idnani from Microsoft addressed the rise of multi-cloud adoption, revealing that 89% of organizations embrace this strategy. Using the fictional FinBank, she showcased practical strategies to overcome latency, resilience, . ...

Mykhailo Brodskyi discusses critical software supply chain security risk categories relevant to FinTech and explains effective mitigation strategies. Drawing from real project case studies, he shares insights to protect systems from vulnerabilities . ...

Google Cloud has announced a suite of new tools and features designed to help organizations reduce costs and improve efficiency of AI workloads across their cloud infrastructure. The announcement comes as enterprises increasingly seek ways to ...

The shadow table strategy creates a synchronized duplicate of the data that keeps the production system fully operational during changes, enabling zero-downtime migrations. The approach supports diverse scenarios - including database migrations, ...

At QCon London 2025, Johnson Matthey's Vulnerability Manager, Celine Pypaert, discussed managing open-source dependency risks while maintaining momentum in innovation. She described a three-part blueprint for handling the security challenges that ...

At QCon London 2025, Johnson Matthey's Vulnerability Manager, Celine Pypaert, discussed managing open-source dependency risks while maintaining momentum in innovation. She described a three-part blueprint for handling the security challenges that ...

Apache Kafka 4.0 ushers in a transformative era by adopting KRaft mode, eliminating the need for ZooKeeper, streamlining architecture, and enhancing scalability. With a next-gen consumer group protocol for improved performance and early access to ...