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Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development

Spencer Judge discusses the architectural pattern of building a shared core in Rust with language-specific layers on top. Drawing from his work on Temporal's SDKs, he shares lessons on navigating FFI boundaries, bridging async concepts, and managing memory safely. He explains the limitations of native extensions and how emerging tech like WebAssembly can streamline cross-language architecture.

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Increasing Users' Data Agency: from BlueSky's AT Protocol to the Local-First Software Movement

Martin Kleppmann, an associate professor at Cambridge and author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, discusses the evolution of data systems over the last decade, mainly the shift from monolithic databases to modular building blocks. Kleppmann underlines the importance of moving from cloud-centric data storage systems to decentralised data storage similar to Bluesky’s AT protocol.

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AI Works, Pull Requests Don’t: How AI Is Breaking the SDLC and What To Do About It

Michael Webster discusses the rise of headless AI agents and their impact on software delivery pipelines. He shares how massive, AI-generated pull requests create a severe bottleneck for human reviewers and introduce persistent technical debt. Learn how engineering leaders can leverage test impact analysis and automated validation pipelines to verify agentic output without sacrificing stability.

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Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, about the impact of AI coding tools on open source communities and engineering teams, designing deliberate organisational culture, and navigating evolving career paths for engineers in the age of AI.

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The Time It Wasn't DNS

Sean Klein discusses why "human error" is a dangerous myth in complex systems. Sharing the inside story of Azure’s 2023 global WAN outage, he explains how modern incident analysis looks past the "Five Whys" to uncover systemic issues. Learn how engineering leaders can move away from blame, improve Standard Operating Procedures, and design resilient systems that actively protect their engineers.

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Chasing Efficient Java Development: from 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively

Gunnar Morling, technologist at Confluent and Java Champion, shares his experiences with building high-performance applications in Java, especially in the data space. He shares insights from experiments with building durable execution engines, bootstrapping, and AI natively developing Apache Hardwood - a minimal dependencies Java parser for Apache Parquet.

Gunnar Morling
on May 25, 2026

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Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development

Increasing Users' Data Agency: from BlueSky's AT Protocol to the Local-First Software Movement

AI Works, Pull Requests Don’t: How AI Is Breaking the SDLC and What To Do About It

Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era

The Time It Wasn't DNS

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Chasing Efficient Java Development: from 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively

Rust at the Core - Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development

Anthropic Lead: HTML Increasingly Better Than Markdown at Keeping Humans Engaged in Agentic Loops

VS Code 1.123 Adds Two-Hour Extension Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

Grab Builds Secure Agentic AI Workload Platform

AI Is Moving up the Software Lifecycle: from Code Review to PRD Governance

Inside Atlassian’s Forge Billing Architecture for Distributed Usage Tracking at Scale

Building a European Cloud Orchestration Platform within an Enterprise

How Lightweight ADRs and Architectural Advice Forums Can Support Architectural Decisions

Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era

Vercel Introduces Eve, an Open-Source Framework for Building AI Agents

AI Works, Pull Requests Don’t: How AI Is Breaking the SDLC and What To Do About It

Google OpenRL is an Experimental Self-hosted API for LLM Post-Training Fine-Tuning

Dapr 1.18 Introduces Verifiable Execution, Bringing Cryptographic Trust to AI Agents and Workflows

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