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Development

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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.

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Architecture & Design

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Five Ways To Use AI Coding Agents to Improve Your Software Architecture

Modern architectures often use legacy services for specific tasks, but these services may lack accurate documentation and using them can be risky if you don't understand them well. AI coding agents can help close that knowledge gap.

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AI Infrastructure

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From Consumers to Builders: Turning 200 of our Team into Agent Creators in 2 Weeks

Ben Maraney shares how Forter demystified AI agent creation for technical and non-technical staff. He discusses leveraging custom MCP servers, combining no-code and code-based platforms, sidestepping complex RAG setups, and aligning security and legal teams to accelerate internal agent adoption across R&D.

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Culture & Methods

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From Staff Platform Engineer to a16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Gonzalo Maldonado explains how technical leaders can translate engineering skills into startup success using their "VC Abstraction Layer Knowledge" (VALK). They share hard-won lessons on finding product-market fit, structuring pitches like technical docs, avoiding co-founder drama, and evaluating internal platforms as commercial ventures in a post-ZIRP environment.

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DevOps

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Context Is the New Code

Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares how treating context like code - complete with testing, CI/CD, package managers, and security scanning - enables engineering leaders to reliably scale AI coding agents, maintain control over non-deterministic outputs, and build long-term organizational knowledge.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Steven "Doc" List About Open Spaces

Steven "Doc" List About Open Spaces

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Steven "Doc" List is a career technologist, manager, leader, executive, speaker, and coach. Doc is currently a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, focusing on organizational transformation and project delivery. Doc has presented and spoken to international, national and local industry, technical audiences, and non-profit groups. He is a published author, including books and articles.

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Nov 06, 2008

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