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Beyond Memory Safety: What Makes Rust Different – Lessons from Autonomous Robotics

This article explores that question through the lens of a real-world Rust project: a system responsible for controlling fleets of autonomous mobile robots. While Rust's memory safety is a strong foundation, its true power lies in the type system and ownership rules. The session will go beyond memory safety and explore ways to encode behavior and protocols directly into types.

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Architecture & Design

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Andres Almiray on How to Release Any Software to Any OS with JReleaser

Andres Almiray, a serial open-source contributor and the creator of JReleaser, discusses the project's state, noting that the tool is usable across any ecosystem, not just Java. He also touches on the Common House Foundation's mission.

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Evaluating AI Agents in Practice: Benchmarks, Frameworks, and Lessons Learned

This article introduces practical methods for evaluating AI agents operating in real-world environments. It explains how to combine benchmarks, automated evaluation pipelines, and human review to measure reliability, task success, and multi-step agent behavior. The article also discusses the challenges of evaluating systems that plan, use tools, and operate across multiple interaction turns.

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Platform Engineering as a Practice of Sociotechnical Excellence

Lesley Cordero discusses platform engineering as a practice for driving sociotechnical change and organizational sustainability. She explains the "pendulum of tension" between developer experience and reliability, emphasizing that architectural patterns must solve for organizational complexity. She shares a leadership framework for moving from reactive heroism to proactive stewardship.

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Configuration as a Control Plane: Designing for Safety and Reliability at Scale

Configuration has evolved from static deployment files into a live control plane that directly shapes system behavior. The evolution of configuration management highlights why misconfigurations can trigger large outages and how hyperscalers deploy changes safely using staged rollouts, validation, blast radius limits, and automated rollback at scale.

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Stripe Engineers Deploy Minions, Autonomous Agents Producing Thousands of Pull Requests Weekly

Stripe engineers describe Minions, autonomous coding agents generating over 1,300 pull requests per week. Tasks can originate from Slack, bug reports, or feature requests. Using LLMs, blueprints, and CI/CD pipelines, Minions produce production-ready changes while maintaining reliability and human review.

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Beyond Memory Safety: What Makes Rust Different – Lessons from Autonomous Robotics

Andres Almiray on How to Release Any Software to Any OS with JReleaser

Evaluating AI Agents in Practice: Benchmarks, Frameworks, and Lessons Learned

Platform Engineering as a Practice of Sociotechnical Excellence

Configuration as a Control Plane: Designing for Safety and Reliability at Scale

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