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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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Systemic Approach to Memory, Knowledge, and Context in Agentic AI Architectures

The article argues that reliable agentic AI architecture depends on a context engine that selects, injects, compresses, and expires information before it reaches the model. It separates context, memory, and knowledge, and recommends tiered memory, curated knowledge, and token budgeting. It also covers common anti-patterns, such as context stuffing and stale data loops, with mitigations.

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AI Infrastructure

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Beyond the Harness: Canvas for AI Agents

Nimisha Asthagiri shares how applying proven product engineering and architecture principles creates a bounded canvas for AI agents. She explains how this model provides agents with bounded autonomy, continuous drift detection, and decision records to scale software development resiliently.

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Culture & Methods

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The Ladder is Missing Rungs: Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle

Alasdair Allan discusses empirical research from METR and Anthropic on AI coding adoption. He explains the "supervision paradox," where reliance on AI tools disrupts junior skill development, risks institutional context loss, and threatens the long-term engineering pipeline needed to oversee autonomous systems effectively.

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DevOps

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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 Serkan Piantino on Scaling Facebook

Serkan Piantino on Scaling Facebook

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Serkan Piantino is an engineering manager at Facebook and is the head of Facebook’s new engineering office in New York City. He manages the teams that power Facebook Messages and Chat. His previous experience includes building the infrastructure and ranking algorithms for News Feed, managing development of new versions of the Facebook home page, and leading development of Timeline.

About the conference

Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

Aug 20, 2012

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