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Development

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Practical Robustness: Going beyond Memory Safety in Rust

Andy Brinkmeyer shares how engineering leaders and architects can use Rust to build failure-proof systems. Moving beyond memory safety, he explains how ownership, enums, and the typestate pattern embed complex runtime protocols into compile-time checks. Learn to eliminate entire classes of bugs, manage real-world resources safely, and maximize codebase robustness effortlessly.

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Architecture & Design

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Governance in the Age of AI: A Conversation with Sarah Wells

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Sarah Wells about the relationship of governance to software architecture. Governance enables teams to work effectively by establishing procedures that minimize system complexity, improve security, and reduce repetitive tasks. Targeted checklists help engineers by reducing the stress over these procedures.

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AI Infrastructure

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Accelerating Netflix Data: a Cross-Team Journey from Offline to Online

Raj Ummadisetty and Ken Kurzweil share Netflix's architectural pivot to CloudStream, a repeatable capture, conversion, and deployment framework. They discuss shifting key-value abstractions from stateless to stateful to move terabytes of bulk data safely. Software architects will learn to exploit data access patterns, use "Pathfinder" prototypes, and maintain a 99% faster rollout.

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Culture & Methods

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Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?

Davide de Paolis discusses the realities of rolling out cloud infrastructure compliance without fracturing developer relations. Drawing from a real-world platform team reboot at Sevdesk, he explains how to implement "minimum viable governance" on AWS, utilize event-driven Slack alerting to automate policy feedback, and shift from rigid enforcement to high-empathy, data-driven collaboration.

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DevOps

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Chaos Engineering GPU Clusters

Bryan Oliver discusses the frontier of AI infrastructure: chaos engineering for large-scale GPU clusters. He shares how engineering leaders can handle complex topologies, network protocols like RDMA, and NUMA misalignments. Discover seven practical fault-injection strategies to maximize multi-million dollar hardware efficiency and build robust observability loops.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Matt Wynne on BDD, Cucumber, Hexagonal Architecture

Matt Wynne on BDD, Cucumber, Hexagonal Architecture

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Matt Wynne (@mattwynne) helps teams like yours learn to enjoy delivering software to the best of their abilities. He's a core developer on the Cucumber project, co-author of The Cucumber Book and founder of Relishapp.com and the BDD Kickstart training program.

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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.

Oct 08, 2012

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