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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust Into Existing Codebase
Lily Mara explains how engineering teams can achieve 100x function-level speedups and lower infrastructure costs by using PyO3 to incrementally refactor critical Python codebases into Rust.
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Turning Outward: Growing From Code to Influence
Brad Grantham explains how senior engineers and architects can transition from writing code to building influence by sharpening communication, mastering business alignment, and empowering teams.
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The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity
Holly Cummins explains how tech history rhymes, tracing tradeoffs from the Great Stink to cloud, AI hype cycles, and ZIRP, urging leaders to recycle old engineering disciplines for sustainability.
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Getting Rid of LeetCode Interviews in the World of AI
Daniel Doubrovkine shares why LeetCode interviews are obsolete in the AI era and discusses how engineering leaders must adapt hiring loops to evaluate real-world system design and AI collaboration.
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Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded
Max Korbacher shares why internal developer platforms fail and how engineering leaders can build successful, product-minded platforms by focusing on people and process over raw technology.
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Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?
Davide de Paolis shares how to scale internal compliance and platform engineering without breaking developer velocity, detailing automated feedback loops and "minimum viable governance" on AWS.
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Building and Scaling UI Systems for Internal Tools at Meta
Meta frontend engineer Cindy Zhang explains how a lean team scaled an internal UI design system to over 10,000 tools, sharing technical strategies for monorepo codemods and community intake.
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From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – at the Same Startup
Trisha Ballakur explains how to transition from hands-on software engineering to founder and C-suite roles. She shares tactical lessons on customer discovery, delegation, and leveraging open source.
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From Legacy to Sovereignty: Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering
Sergiu Petean explains how to navigate the evolution from legacy systems to platform engineering. He shares data-driven insights on balancing DORA metrics, compliance, and strategic AI integration.
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Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers
Stéphane Di Cesare and Cat Morris discuss applying product thinking to engineering. They explain how focusing on outcomes over outputs helps engineers demonstrate value and secure promotions.
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Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Large-Scale Engineering Systems
Google senior staff engineer Julie Qiu shares how she uses AI as a thinking partner to navigate large-scale systems, moving beyond code generation to architecting complex, multi-language ecosystems.
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Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox
Amit Navindgi explains how Zoox built Cortex, an internal AI platform that streamlines the developer lifecycle by moving beyond the hype to deliver secure, agentic workflows and real-world impact.
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