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Development

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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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Architecture & Design

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From Microservices to Agents: the Next Evolution of Distributed Systems

The article examines the transition from microservices to agentic AI architecture in distributed systems. Microservices allow for functional decomposition, while agentic systems focus on decision decomposition. This shift introduces new complexities in observability, reliability, and system design, highlighting the need for updated architectural patterns and practices.

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AI Infrastructure

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The Future of Web Apps: Will AI Agents Generate UIs on the Fly?

Rachel Lee Nabors, former React core team member, dives into the architecture and philosophy behind local-first applications, exploring how small language models (SLMs) running directly on-device can deliver privacy-focused, low-latency, and cost-effective alternatives to cloud-hosted LLM wrappers.

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Culture & Methods

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The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Gjertsen, founder of Built and author of Minimum Viable Manager, about the three foundational skills every first-time manager needs, how to build trust and give effective feedback, and why human leadership skills matter even more in the age of AI.

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DevOps

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Exploding GPUs and the AI Infrastructure Challenge

Andrew Martin discusses why AI security is fundamentally tied to Kubernetes security. He shares insights into the evolving AI threat landscape, covering non-deterministic agent behavior, GPU supply chain vulnerabilities, shared compute risks, and practical defense strategies - from prompt firewalling to agentic identity - to help secure cloud-native AI workloads in production environments.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Interview with Peter Kriens on the OSGi enRoute toolset

Interview with Peter Kriens on the OSGi enRoute toolset

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Peter Kriens is an independent consultant since 1990. He currently works for the OSGi Alliance and Paremus. During the eighties he developed advanced distributed systems for newspapers based on microcomputers based on, at the time very novel, object oriented technologies.

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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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