AI engineering article archive

Explore guides and articles on AI development, retrieval systems, and production engineering. Page 5 of 11.

• Shadow Table Strategy Data Migration

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

• Fitness Functions Architecture

  Fitness functions are guardrails that enable the continuous evolution of your system's architecture, within a range and a direction, that you desire and define.

• Fundamentals Of Transforming Legacy Architecture

  Rashmi Venugopal explores the inevitability of legacy systems in successful companies and the importance of transforming legacy systems to accelerate innovation.

• Distributed Cloud Privacy Ai

  Distributed cloud, PETs, and AI enhance secure, private data processing. This improves collaboration, security, and regulatory compliance with marketing, finance, and healthcare applications.

• Architecture Trends 2025

  Each year, InfoQ editors that cover software architecture and design meet to discuss the latest trends we’re observing across the industry.

• Architecting Real Time Systems Around Mainframe

  The transformation journey is about breaking dependencies. Many enterprises face similar challenges with legacy systems, tightly coupled architectures that are difficult to scale, change, or maintain.

• Ocr Ai Document Processing

  In this article, author discusses AI driven document processing techniques for intelligent, adaptive approach to document processing, to interpret documents in context, not just by visual structure.

• Shared Libraries Dotnet Enterprise

  This article discusses real-world cases of using shared libraries, their consequences, and possible solutions to blockers caused by using them in many dependent projects.

• Domain Driven Rag

  Retrieval augmented generation can help reduce LLM hallucination. Applying high-quality metadata and distributing ownership of documents and prompts to domain experts can further increase accuracy.

• Culture Trends 2025

  This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space.

• Best Practices Energy Efficient Ai Ml Systems

  In this article, author discusses the sustainable innovations in AI/ML technologies and how to track carbon footprint in all stages of ML systems lifecycle.

• Emotional Mastery Tech Leaders

  The brain's states can enhance decision-making and innovation. By mastering emotional regulation, trust, and psychological safety, leaders can empower teams to thrive and unlock their full potential.

• Lcm Paradigm Shift Ai Reasoning

  Differently from LLMs, Large Concept Models (LCMs) use structured knowledge to grasp relationships between concepts, enhancing decision making and driving towards developing more reliable AI.

• Practical Design Patterns Modern Ai Systems

  In this article, author Rahul Suresh discusses emerging AI patterns in the areas of prompting, responsible AI, user experience, AI-Ops, and optimization, with code examples for each design pattern.

• Complex Applications Storage Constraints

  This article explores developing software for microcontrollers in C or C++, where constraints are the limited amount of volatile memory and the embedded hardware platform on which the software runs.

• Scale Impact Staff Plus

  This article demystifies what "Staff-Plus" expectations actually look like, drawing on real promotion and performance reviews experiences.

• Rxjs Angular16 Best Practices

  This article explores modern Angular (16+) RxJS best practices, emphasizing AsyncPipe for template subscriptions, flattening streams with operators, error handling strategies, and more.

• AI Legacy Modernization

  This article explores how large language models (LLMs) helped us uncover and enhance the conceptual constructs behind software, improving success in large, complex software modernization projects.

• Mocking Grpc Microservices

  Mocking gRPC services allows you to validate gRPC integration code during your tests while avoiding common pitfalls. Learn how to use WireMock’s Spring Boot integration to mock gRPC services.

• Inflection Points Engineering Productivity

  In this article, Carlos Arguelles discusses various considerations related to optimizing engineering productivity, as well as some key inflection points that impact developer productivity.

• Personalized Content Pagination Prefetching

  Improve user engagement and retention with personalized content loading strategy that leverages AI to dynamically load content based on an individual user's behavior and network conditions.

• Scalable Resilient Event Systems

  Design resilient, scalable event-driven systems. Discover patterns for handling load, avoid common pitfalls (retry overuse, lack of observability), and build robust architectures.

• Mvp Dilemma

  Scaling a system is a hard problem to solve. Underinvesting in scalability leads to a shortened lifespan for the system, but overinvesting can kill the MVP business case because of cost.

• Developer Joy Productivity

  Joy isn’t a distraction from productivity. Learn how to reclaim developer satisfaction and boost output by embracing curiosity, minimizing friction, and giving ourselves a break.

• Cuda Integration For Java

  Learn how to offload compute-heavy Java tasks to the GPU using JNI and CUDA for ten to one hundred times performance improvement in secure and data-parallel workloads.

• Microservices Traffic Mirroring Istio Vpc

  Traffic mirroring has evolved from a network security tool. Organizations can now use it to test and debug microservices by replaying production traffic in a non-customer–facing environment.

• Spotting Image Differences Visual Software Testing Ai

  This article explains how AI fails at visual image comparison and offers a solution: a custom CNN that compares segments to tolerate minor pixel shifts and find meaningful differences.

• Apiops Iac Reshaped Api Strategy

  Transforming API management by adopting APIOps and IaC, eliminating manual bottlenecks to achieve automated, scalable, and secure API delivery, while enhancing developer productivity.

• Staff Plus Strategic Thinking

  This article outlines a personal framework for cultivating strategic thinking at any career stage, with a focus on Staff+ engineers.

• Decentralized Architecture Advice Process

  Architectural success in decentralized systems depends more on how decisions are made than on system design alone. Structured practices such as ADRs and advice forums can build confidence and clarity.

• Apache Kafka Stretch Cluster Failures

  Uncover the critical risks and robust disaster recovery strategies for Apache Kafka Stretch Clusters amid WAN disruptions, ensuring seamless continuity and data integrity across geographies.

• State Space Solution To Hallucinations State Space Models

  In this article, author Albert Lie explains why transformers, the architecture of most AI models, struggle with hallucinations and how State Space Models (SSMs) offer a solution.

• Cloud Prem Architecture Challenges

  Discover how Cloud-Prem solutions combine cloud efficiency with on-premise control, meeting data sovereignty and compliance demands while optimizing operational costs and enhancing customer security.

• Staff Engineer Influence: Evidence, Cross-Team Decisions and Delivery

  Frame a shared technical problem, compare options with evidence, assign decision and interface owners, and carry an agreed change through rollout and review.

• Docker Size Dive

  Docker images bloat from AI libraries and OS components. Chirag Agrawal suggests using docker history and dive tools to diagnose layer-by-layer bloat sources for targeted optimization.

• Effective Practices Ai Chat Based Coding

  In this article, we explore how AI agents are reshaping software development and the impact they have on a developer’s workflow, focusing on how to stay in control while working with these tools.

• Ceph Rbd Open Source

  Insider story from Yehuda Sadeh-Weinraub reveals how two developers started Ceph RBD from community feedback and built it through collaborative, iterative open source development.

• Agentic Ai Architecture Framework

  To deploy agentic AI responsibly and effectively in the enterprise, organizations must progress through a three-tier architecture, where trust, governance, and transparency precede autonomy.

• Optimizing Search Systems

  Discover how Uber Eats transformed its search optimization through advanced indexing, sharding, and scalability techniques, delivering faster, more relevant results in an evolving app landscape.

• Digital Banking Products

  This article shares practical experiences and concrete examples from multi-site teams that built two banking products and delivered value to customers across various European markets.