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Green IT: How to Reduce the Impact of AI on the Environment
AI poses major challenges for green IT: each query consumes vast energy, GPU chips last only 2-3 years, and costs stay hidden from users. Regulatory frameworks like the EU AI Act fall short on enforcement, Ludi Akue said. In her talk What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT she presented model compression, quantization, and novel architectures, using sustainability as a design constraint.
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Revenium Unveils Tool Registry to Expose the True Cost of AI Agents
Revenium has announced the general availability of its Tool Registry, a new capability designed to give enterprises a complete, end-to-end view of what their AI agents actually cost.
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QCon London 2026: Ethical AI is an Engineering Problem
At QCon London 2026, Clara Higuera, responsible AI program lead at BBVA, presented how many of the risks associated with AI systems are fundamentally engineering challenges rather than purely governance or policy issues.
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QCon London 2026: Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server
Unikraft CEO Felipe Huici demonstrated waking the one-millionth VM on a commodity server in ten milliseconds at QCon London. The talk traced a decade from academic unikernel research to a platform offering stateless scale-to-zero VMs with full isolation. Using Firecracker and VM snapshots, sleeping workloads resume instantly, turning server density from a hardware problem into a scheduling one.
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QCon London 2026: Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence
At QCon London 2026, Jeff Smith discussed the growing mismatch between AI coding models and real-world software development. While AI tools are enabling developers to generate code faster than ever, Smith argued that the models themselves are increasingly “stale” because they lack the repository-specific knowledge required to produce production-ready contributions.
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QCon London 2026: Blurring the Lines: Engineering & Data Teams in the Age of AI
At QCon London 2026, Lada Indra, head of data platform at Pleo, shared insights from his experience across high-scale data systems. He illustrated both the risks of poorly aligned teams and the practical strategies that organizations can adopt to bridge the gap.
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QCon London 2026: Reliable Retrieval for Production AI Systems
At QCon London 2026, Lan Chu, AI tech lead at Rabobank, shared lessons from deploying a production AI search system used internally by more than 300 users across 10,000 documents. Her experience shows that most failures in RAG systems stem from indexing and retrieval, rather than the language model itself.
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AI Is Amplifying Software Engineering Performance, Says the 2025 DORA Report
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the way software is built, but its impact is more nuanced than many organizations expected. The 2025 DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) report, titled State of AI-Assisted Software Development, finds that AI does not automatically improve software delivery performance.
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QCon London 2026: Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: the Unpolished Story
Jabez Eliezer Manuel, senior principal engineer at Booking.com, presented “Behind Booking.com's AI Evolution: the Unpolished Story” at QCon London 2026. Manuel discussed how Booking.com has evolved over the past 20 years and the challenges they faced on their journey to incorporate AI.
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Devnexus 2026: Focus on AI with Core Java, Java Frameworks, Security and Career Mentoring
Celebrating its 23rd year, Devnexus 2026 was held from March 4-6, 2026, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia. The event featured speakers from the Java community who delivered workshops and talks under tracks such as: AI Generative; AI in Practice; Core Java; Java Frameworks; and Security and Developer Tools.
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DoorDash Builds LLM Conversation Simulator to Test Customer Support Chatbots at Scale
DoorDash engineers built a simulation and evaluation flywheel to test large language model customer support chatbots at scale. The system generates multi-turn synthetic conversations using historical transcripts and backend mocks, evaluates outcomes with an LLM-as-judge framework, and enables rapid iteration on prompts, context, and system design before production deployment.
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Advance Your Socio-Technical Architecture Skills with InfoQ’s New Online Cohorts
Enhance your architectural leadership with InfoQ’s new online cohorts starting April 15, May 7, and June 10, 2026. Led by Luca Mezzalira, this 5-week program focuses on socio-technical skills like ADRs, platform engineering, and AI trade-offs. Senior practitioners can apply frameworks to live projects, earn ICSAET certification, and contribute to the InfoQ community.
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AWS Launches Strands Labs for Experimental AI Agent Projects
Amazon Web Services has introduced Strands Labs, a new GitHub organization created to host experimental projects related to agent-based AI development.
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Running Ray at Scale on AKS
The Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) team at Microsoft has shared guidance for running Anyscale's managed Ray service at scale. They focus on three key issues: GPU capacity limits, scattered ML storage, and problems with credential expiry.
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AI-Powered Bot Compromises GitHub Actions Workflows across Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF Projects
AI-powered bot hackerbot-claw exploited GitHub Actions workflows across Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF projects over 7 days using 5 attack techniques. Bot achieved RCE in 5 of 7 targets, stole GitHub token from awesome-go (140k stars), and fully compromised Aqua Security's Trivy. Campaign included first documented AI-on-AI attack where bot attempted prompt injection against Claude Code.