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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.

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The Evolution of Agentic Harnesses: From Chains to Graph to Code

Agentic LLM systems have moved from linear prompt chains to graph-based workflows and, more recently, code-executing harnesses. Chains are simple but fragile, graphs add branching, retries, and validation, and code harnesses verify outputs through execution. The article advises validating model outputs and choosing the least complex design that meets reliability, speed, and cost needs.

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Serving LLMs at Scale: The Hidden KV Cache Advantage

Khawaja Shams shares a distributed systems perspective on scaling LLM inference stacks efficiently. He discusses practical strategies for optimizing GPU utilization, managing KV cache memory cliffs, leveraging tiered storage, reducing tail latency, and implementing disaggregated prefill and decode architectures to improve overall fleet performance, cost economics, and availability.

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AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction

Nathen Harvey shares insights from DORA research on AI adoption in software delivery. He explains why AI acts as an amplifier, how the DORA AI Capabilities Model drives outcomes, and why engineering leaders must evolve beyond bottlenecks like code reviews to achieve sustainable productivity, reduce delivery instability, and empower developers without burning out their teams.

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Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: A Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

Colin Douch shares battle-tested strategies for building and scaling self-hosted observability stacks. He explains how to effectively correlate metrics, structured logs, and distributed traces using open-source tooling like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Jaeger, while navigating the engineering trade-offs of avoiding SaaS vendor lock-in.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Ian Robinson on Neo4j's History, Data Structure and Use Cases

Ian Robinson on Neo4j's History, Data Structure and Use Cases

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Ian Robinson works on research and development for future versions of the Neo4j graph database. Harbouring a long-held interest in connected data, he was for many years one of the foremost proponents of REST architectures, before turning his focus from the Web's global graph to the realm of graph databases.

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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.

Aug 25, 2014

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