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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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Agentic AI Architecture: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities

Agentic AI architecture extends microservices and cloud-native architectures with AI agents that work with context, memory, and protocols such as MCP and A2A. The article covers bounded-context integration, task-dependent coordination strategies, new security risks, and observability needs. It expects gradual adoption alongside existing architectures, with platforms absorbing common components.

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AI Infrastructure

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Opening the Black Box: Critical Explainability for AI Agent Tool Selection with Kiji Inspector

Hannes Hapke shares how Dataiku’s open-source Kiji Inspector applies Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) directly to decision tokens to expose why agents pick specific tools. Moving past superficial chain-of-thought narratives, he discusses causal ablation, layer activation extraction via patched vLLM engines, and production monitoring workflows for software architects and senior engineering leaders.

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Culture & Methods

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The Influence Toolkit

Henry Wilson shares actionable tools from the BBC Sounds re-architecture to help senior engineering leaders drive technical strategy. He discusses building buy-in, navigating active resistors, using RFCs and ADRs, and balancing tradeoffs - showing that effective software architecture is fundamentally about communication, relationship-building, and organizational influence.

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DevOps

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Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry

Oli Lane and Julian Wreford share how Gearset replaced guesswork in distributed asynchronous queues with OpenTelemetry tracing. They explain why traditional metrics fall short, how to implement user-centric SLOs based on latency distributions, and share practical debugging tips to help senior developers, software architects, and engineering leaders improve system reliability and team culture.

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DevOps

Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry

Oli Lane and Julian Wreford discuss how adopting OpenTelemetry transformed their async queues, sharing practical SLO strategies and tips to debug distributed systems and improve engineering culture.

Julian Wreford Oli Lane
on Nov 11, 2026

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49:48
DevOps

Building a Future-Proof Observability Platform to Empower Engineers

Wayne Bell and Dan Gomez Blanco explain how Skyscanner transitioned from siloed telemetry to a unified OpenTelemetry standard, treating their internal platform as a product to drive adoption.

Dan Gomez Blanco Wayne Bell
on Apr 27, 2026

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49:06
Architecture & Design

Reliable Architectures through Observability

Kent Quirk shows an overview of observability tools and techniques, and specific recommendations for how to fit observability into their system designs and day-to-day development process.

Kent Quirk
on Jan 11, 2024

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48:59
DevOps

Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry

Daniel Gomez Blanco shares his experience leading a large-scale observability initiative at Skyscanner, based on the adoption of OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services.

Daniel Gomez Blanco
on Sep 06, 2023

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DevOps

State of OpenTelemetry, Where Are We and What’s Next?

Michael Hausenblas discusses what problems OpenTelemetry solves, and overviews the ecosystem and status of various projects within OpenTelemetry.

Michael Hausenblas
on Jan 19, 2023

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