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Development

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Practical Robustness: Going Beyond Memory Safety in Rust

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 embed complex runtime protocols into compile-time checks. Learn to eliminate entire classes of bugs, manage real-world resources safely, and maximize codebase robustness effortlessly.

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Architecture & Design

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Agentic AI Architecture

In this eMag, we try to establish agentic AI architecture as a new type of software architecture that will likely dominate the industry for years to come. The articles, written by industry experts, cover various elements and aspects of agentic AI architecture. We aim to present the latest trends and developments shaping the new type of architecture as it enters the mainstream.

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AI Infrastructure

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Accelerating Netflix Data: A Cross-Team Journey from Offline to Online

Raj Ummadisetty and Ken Kurzweil share Netflix's architectural pivot to CloudStream, a repeatable capture, conversion, and deployment framework. They discuss shifting key-value abstractions from stateless to stateful to move terabytes of bulk data safely. Software architects will learn to exploit data access patterns, use "Pathfinder" prototypes, and maintain a 99% faster rollout.

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Culture & Methods

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Formal Methods for Every Engineer in an AI-Powered Future

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Gabriela Moreira about making formal methods accessible through the Quint specification language, how AI is dramatically lowering the barrier to entry for formal specification and model-based testing, and why defining correct system behaviour remains essential human work in an AI-driven world.

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DevOps

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Chaos Engineering GPU Clusters

Bryan Oliver discusses the frontier of AI infrastructure: chaos engineering for large-scale GPU clusters. He shares how engineering leaders can handle complex topologies, network protocols like RDMA, and NUMA misalignments. Discover seven practical fault-injection strategies to maximize multi-million dollar hardware efficiency and build robust observability loops.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Steve Peha on Agreements-Based Culture

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A learning strategist with 25 years of experience in K-12 education, software development, and instructional science. Steve recently served as Product Owner on the Gates Foundation's Shared Learning Infrastructure, an enterprise Agile implementation of a reference platform for Student Longitudinal Data Systems. He is the co-creator of "The Culture Engine", a method of workplace culture change.

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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.

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