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Development

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Million PDFs: Building a Modern Document Infrastructure with Rust and Typst

Erik Steiger discusses the operational pain of legacy PDF generation in regulated banking and manufacturing. He explains how transitioning from resource-heavy engines like Puppeteer and LaTeX to a serverless Rust architecture powered by Typst can drop render latencies below 2ms. He shares how applying Git and Docker concepts to template registries ensures ironclad compliance and rapid debugging.

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Architecture & Design

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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized load shedding embedded in their Envoy sidecar proxy, allowing user-initiated requests to steal capacity from non-critical traffic. They share automated platform strategies for continuous chaos load testing, config generation, and retry storm mitigation.

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AI Infrastructure

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Graph RAG: Building Smarter Retrieval Workflows with Knowledge Graphs

Cassie Shum discusses the architectural evolution of GraphRAG and why data foundations are critical for advanced AI workflows. She explains how traditional vector RAG falls short when addressing global context, multi-hop reasoning, and provenance. She shares enterprise strategies for building semantically structured knowledge graphs that shift raw orchestrating logic down to the data layer.

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Culture & Methods

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Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, about the impact of AI coding tools on open source communities and engineering teams, designing deliberate organisational culture, and navigating evolving career paths for engineers in the age of AI.

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DevOps

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The Time it Wasn't DNS

Sean Klein discusses why "human error" is a dangerous myth in complex systems. Sharing the inside story of Azure’s 2023 global WAN outage, he explains how modern incident analysis looks past the "Five Whys" to uncover systemic issues. Learn how engineering leaders can move away from blame, improve Standard Operating Procedures, and design resilient systems that actively protect their engineers.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Erik Meijer discusses programming language design, effects and some web programming problems

Erik Meijer discusses programming language design, effects and some web programming problems

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Erik Meijer is an architect in the Microsoft SQL server division where he currently works together with the Microsoft Visual C# and the Microsoft Visual Basic language design teams on data integration in programming languages. He was an associate professor at Utrecht University and adjunct professor at the Oregon Graduate Institute.Erik is one of the designers of Haskell98 and the Cw language.

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GOTO Aarhus is the enterprise software development conference designed for team leads, architects, and project management and is organized by developers, for developers. Important topics are presented by the leaders in our community. The conference concept is to present the latest developments as they become relevant and interesting for the software development community.

Dec 21, 2012

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