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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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Panel: Who Builds the Frontend Now? (And What Breaks When They Do)

The panelists explain how AI tools and vibe coding reshape frontend and mobile engineering. They share insights on evolving junior developer roles, managing AI-generated code review fatigue, designing systems for autonomous agents, enforcing architectural guardrails, and navigating economic shifts in open-source software sustainability.

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AI Infrastructure

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Zero Trust Agent Systems that Pass Audits and Still Ship

Advait Patel shares a playbook for securing AI agent systems in production. He discusses moving defense boundaries from the prompt to the tool layer, enforcing scoped workload identities, and mitigating prompt injection via tool outputs. He explains how to structure audit-ready observability and implement kill switches to protect critical data while keeping deployment fast and compliant.

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The Socio-Technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change

Vanessa Formicola shares how technical leaders can move beyond "wishful architecture" by practicing holistic socio-technical engineering. She discusses why engineering leaders must account for organizational maturity, reward structures, geopolitical climate, and team dynamics, framing the staff-plus role as designing the conditions for technology to thrive rather than just picking tools.

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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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Randy Shoup on eBay's Architectural Principles

Randy Shoup covers the architectural principles eBay has used to grow and evolve its infrastructure to handle massive scalability, availability, manageability and describes reusable patterns.

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Panel: Who Builds the Frontend Now? (And What Breaks When They Do)

Zero Trust Agent Systems that Pass Audits and Still Ship

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Yelp Combines Native and Server-Driven UI for Its AI Assistant

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Building a Culture for a Kubernetes-Based Platform in a Bank

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

Zero Trust Agent Systems that Pass Audits and Still Ship

Beyond the Harness: Canvas for AI Agents

Google and Meta Open-Source TorchTPU to Bring Native PyTorch Support to Google TPUs

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