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Development

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Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a garbage collector eliminates tail latency and shares how its "zero-cost abstractions" rival C performance. He shares Apple’s roadmap for incremental adoption and demonstrates groundbreaking new interoperability for C++ and Java ecosystems.

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Architecture & Design

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Read-Copy-Update (RCU): The Secret to Lock-Free Performance

Innovative software engineer with expertise in optimizing concurrency through advanced techniques like Read-Copy-Update (RCU). Proven track record of boosting read performance by over 110% in read-heavy workloads. Skilled in leveraging RCU principles across production systems, enhancing architecture efficiency, and streamlining data handling to maximize scalability and minimize overhead.

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AI Infrastructure

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Busting AI Myths and Embracing Realities in Privacy & Security

Katharine Jarmul keynotes on common myths around privacy and security in AI and explores what the realities are, covering design patterns that help build more secure, more private AI systems.

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Culture & Methods

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So You’ve Decided To Do a Technical Migration

Sophie Koonin discusses the realities of large-scale technical migrations, using Monzo’s shift to TypeScript as a roadmap. She explains how to handle "bends in the road," from documentation and tooling to setting measurable milestones. Sophie shares vital lessons on balancing technical debt with feature work and provides a framework for deciding if a migration is truly worth the effort.

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DevOps

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[Video Podcast] Frictionless DevEx with Nicole Forsgren

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, the author of Accelerate and one of the most prominent and important minds in DevOps and developer productivity. The conversation is about identifying and removing developer friction, the subject of her new book, Frictionless.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Improving Technical Skills and Agile Practices

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Ruud Wijnands has almost two decades of experience in professional software- and system development of which close to 15 years using agile development practices. His passion is team work and creating high performance teams. As senior staff member and group leader for Systems Engineering at Philips Innovation Services he helps with change management towards a more lean way of working.

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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.

Jun 04, 2015

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