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[Video Podcast] AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI coding assistants and gets into where those tools are quickly heading. They then look to the future of how the entire software development lifecycle will see the benefits of AI in the next few years.

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Architecture & Design

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Spec Driven Development: When Architecture Becomes Executable

Spec-Driven Development inverts traditional architecture by making specifications executable and authoritative. It transforms declared intent into validated code through AI generation and provides architectural determinism. It eliminates drift through continuous enforcement, but demands new engineering discipline in schema design and contract-first reasoning.

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AI Infrastructure

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Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types

In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes, and how Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDTs) can help with conflict resolution when managing data.

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Culture & Methods

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Holistic Engineering: Organic Problem Solving for Complex Evolving Systems

Vanessa Formicola discusses how "invisible" forces shape our code and architecture. She shares patterns like "Cirque du Soleil coding" and "Shared Kitchen Sinks," explaining why technical problems often have social roots. Architects and leaders will learn how to use Social Decision Records (SDRs) and holistic modeling to make the implicit explicit and drive success.

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DevOps

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No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

Po Linn Chia shares the sociotechnical journey of ClassPass, moving from a flaky, homegrown testing framework to a dynamic routing architecture on ECS. She discusses leveraging Traefik and OpenTelemetry baggage to enable "shadow mains" and ephemeral feature testing. This talk provides a pragmatic blueprint for engineering leaders to increase developer velocity with a lean platform team.

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Product Development in the Land of the Free

Simon Baker and Gus Power point out that many projects fail due to organizational complexity, proposing ways to improve product development and business agility in order to make the customer happy.

Simon Baker Gus Power
on Sep 16, 2010

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Changing Culture to Enable DevOps

Changing tools is easy when compared to changing people and processes. How can we cultivate an organization’s culture to identify and solve DevOps problems?

Lee Thompson Israel Gat John Allspaw Lloyd Taylor
on Aug 09, 2010

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Your Mileage May Vary

Experiences and lessons learned facing DevOps problems in the IT trenches (even if they weren’t calling it DevOps!). The good, the bad, the surprises, and ideas for the future.

Burzin Engineer Kevin Rae Ernest Muller Stefan Apitz Dan Nemec
on Jul 29, 2010

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Transcendence and Passing Through the Gate

This presentation will show how agile values, ideas, and practices lead the practitioner to the threshold of transcendence (agile phase three, according to Kent Beck) and then how to "Be Agile."

Dave West
on Jul 15, 2009

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Democratic Political Technology Revolution

This presentation explores the radical evolution in political technology 2004-2008 and how political start-ups built innovative social applications that raised $1/2 billion and elected a President.

Zack Exley Martin Fowler
on May 29, 2009

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