BT

Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Write for InfoQ

Register Sign in

Unlock the full InfoQ experience

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources.

Log In

or

Don't have an InfoQ account?

Stay updated on topics and peers that matter to youReceive instant alerts on the latest insights and trends.
Quickly access free resources for continuous learningMinibooks, videos with transcripts, and training materials.
Save articles and read at anytimeBookmark articles to read whenever youre ready.

Logo - Back to homepage

News Articles Presentations Podcasts Guides

Topics

Development

Featured in Development

From VR to Flat Screens: Bridging the Input and Immersion Gap

Dany Lepage discusses the architectural journey of porting a hit VR title to seven non-VR platforms. He explains how his team solved the challenges of cross-progression, diverse input paradigms, and maintaining release velocity across Steam, iOS, and PlayStation. Beyond the tech, he shares candid lessons on the "product fit" gap when translating immersive social presence to 2D screens.

All in development

Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Context is the Key to the Agentic Architecture Revolution: a Conversation with Baruch Sadogursky

Michael Stiefel spoke to Baruch Sadogursky about software architecture in the age of agentic AI. LLM can function, albeit stochastically, as reasoning machines capable of interpreting human ambiguity. With the appropriate rigorous context artifacts to control the LLM’s reasoning, software specifications can become the source of truth, while the code becomes a disposable intermediate language.

All in architecture-design

AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Building Evals for AI Adoption: From Principles to Practice

Mallika Rao discusses the hidden risk of evaluation debt in production AI systems, drawing on her experience at Twitter, Walmart, and Netflix. She explains why traditional metrics fail modern architectures, breaks down a five-layer evaluation stack spanning infrastructure and UX, and shares a diagnostic maturity model to help engineering leaders eliminate silent semantic failures.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup

Trisha Ballakur discusses her journey from a backend software engineer to CTO and CEO, using her startup Pointz as a case study. She explains how to implement bottom-up customer discovery to find product-market fit, effectively delegate to global contractors to reduce build times, customize open-source repos like Valhalla, and apply engineering test-case models to business development.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

Featured in DevOps

Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads

Joseph Stein discusses engineering an enterprise AI-as-a-Service platform within a private cloud data center. He explains how to maximize underutilized GPU pools via multi-namespace scheduling, leverage Valkey and Lua for atomic priority queuing and backpressure management, mitigate OWASP Top 10 LLM risks via central proxy gateways, and scale batch pipelines using a custom S3-to-Kafka proxy.

All in devops

Events

Helpful links

Choose your language

Online InfoQ Architect Certification

The more senior you become, the fewer people pressure-test your decisions. This 5-week cohort gives you that check.

Register Now.

Online InfoQ Org Architect Certification

A practical online cohort for senior architects addressing team topologies, value stream architecture, cognitive load, and architecting for flow.

Register Now.

Online InfoQ AI Engineering Certification

A practical online cohort for senior engineers making decisions around retrieval, agents, evals, and AI infrastructure.

Register Now.

QCon San Francisco

Learn what's next in AI and software, from teams already doing it.

Register Now.

InfoQ Homepage Interviews Ines Sombra on Data Services at Engine Yard

Ines Sombra on Data Services at Engine Yard

Download

18:41

Bio

Ines Sombra is the Lead Data Engineer at Engine Yard, where she spends her time thinking about the provisioning, configuration, and backups of data stores. Ines holds an M.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Information Management from Washington University in Saint Louis. Being a true Argentine, she has a fondness for steak, fernet, and a pug named Gordo. @randommood

About the conference

Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

Sep 08, 2014

Interview with

Ines Sombra

by

Chris Swan

BT