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Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a garbage collector eliminates tail latency and shares how its "zero-cost abstractions" rival C performance. He shares Apple’s roadmap for incremental adoption and demonstrates groundbreaking new interoperability for C++ and Java ecosystems.

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Architecture & Design

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[Video Podcast] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and a Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. The conversation covers how Valkey started as an open source fork of Redis and how the maintainers optimized the memory usage and improved throughput.

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Building LLMs in Resource-Constrained Environments: A Hands-On Perspective

In this article, the author argues that infrastructure and compute limitations can drive innovation. It demonstrates how smaller, efficient models, synthetic data generation, and disciplined engineering enable the creation of impactful LLM-based AI systems despite severe resource constraints.

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Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi discusses the strategic evolution required to lead 100+ engineers without breaking the organization. He explains his "Three Levels of Impact" framework and shares practical lessons on speeding up decision-making, cultivating leadership teams, and building organizational resilience. Learn why he views reorgs as a continuous deployment feature rather than a one-time traumatic event.

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From Alert Fatigue to Agent-Assisted Intelligent Observability

As systems grow, observability becomes harder to maintain and incidents harder to diagnose. Agentic observability layers AI on existing tools, starting in read-only mode to detect anomalies and summarize issues. Over time, agents add context, correlate signals, and automate low-risk tasks. This approach frees engineers to focus on analysis and judgment.

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Architecture in the Age of AI: Change and Opportunity

This eMag is designed to bring together insights from industry practitioners to explore how architecture can evolve in the era of AI. From rethinking platforms, automation practices and embracing decentralized decision-making to redefining the architect’s role as coach and enabler, the contributions here highlight strategies for navigating technical and organizational challenges.

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Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

[Video Podcast] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

Building LLMs in Resource-Constrained Environments: A Hands-On Perspective

Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations

From Alert Fatigue to Agent-Assisted Intelligent Observability

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Architecture in the Age of AI: Change and Opportunity

GitHub Copilot SDK Lets Developers Integrate Copilot CLI's Engine into Apps

How CNAME Ordering in RFC Specs Caused Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage

Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Uber Moves In-House Search Indexing to Pull-Based Ingestion in OpenSearch

[Video Podcast] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

LinkedIn Leverages GitHub Actions, CodeQL, and Semgrep for Code Scanning

Getting Feedback from Test-Driven Development and Testing in Production

Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations

The Technical Founder's Path: Code, Leadership, and Balance

QCon Previews 20th Anniversary Conferences: Production AI, Resilience, and Staff+ Engineering

Windsurf Introduces Arena Mode to Compare AI Models During Development

Building LLMs in Resource-Constrained Environments: A Hands-On Perspective

BellSoft Survey Finds Container Security Practices Are Undermining Developers’ Own Goals

Datadog Integrates Google Agent Development Kit into LLM Observability Tools

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