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Development

Featured in Development

A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller

Joe Cassavaugh shares his journey from software engineer to successful solopreneur with a $2M+ indie franchise. He explains how he scaled production to 10 games in 5 years, adopted Unity to boost velocity 4-6x, optimized content pipelines, and leveraged refactoring patterns. He discusses key trade-offs between corporate engineering and solopreneurship for senior devs and leaders.

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: Insights and Patterns for the AI Era

This eMag examines how architects can lead with clarity in a rapidly evolving engineering world, distilling industry insights into field-tested practices for teams. Together, these stories reveal a core theme: the technology leader’s role is expanding from building systems to guiding how tech behaves and learns, while enabling engineers and organizations to bring out their best.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

From AI Agent Demo to Production: Automated Testing and Evaluation

Zhou Yu discusses why AI agents stall in demo phase and shares how simulation-driven testing solves compliance and reliability bottlenecks. Learn how Columbia and Arklex AI use synthetic user personas, trajectory entropy, and automated CI/CD pipelines to evaluate multi-turn agents, catch edge cases before deployment, and scale self-learning workflows in production.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about hiring for personality and problem-solving over pure skillset, turning around a platform and team in crisis, and how AI is reshaping team size and composition without ending SAAS.

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DevOps

Featured in DevOps

Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Anthropic reliability engineer Alex Palcuie shares practical lessons on using LLMs for real-world incident response. He explains where AI acts as a superhuman for observing logs and traces, why it still struggles with causation versus correlation during root-cause analysis, and how engineering leaders can integrate AI into on-call workflows without eroding human expertise.

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Architect Certification

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QCon San Francisco

What's working across AI, architecture, and leadership, from the teams doing it.
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QCon AI New York

Production AI across agents, context, evals, security, and infrastructure, from the senior engineers building it.
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QCon London

What early-adopter teams have proven in production, across 15 engineering tracks.
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InfoQ Homepage Interviews John Graham-Cumming on Polyglot Programming and Geek History

John Graham-Cumming on Polyglot Programming and Geek History

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John Graham-Cumming is a wandering programmer who's lived in the UK, California, New York and France. Along the way he's worked for a succession of technology start-ups, written the award-winning open source POPFile email program and churned out articles for publications such as The Guardian newspaper, Dr Dobbs, and Linux Magazine.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

Apr 16, 2015

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