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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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Article Series: Agentic AI Architecture

In this article series, we try to establish agentic AI architecture as a new type of software architecture that will likely dominate the industry for years to come. The articles, written by industry experts, cover various elements and aspects of agentic AI architecture. We aim to present the latest trends and developments shaping the new type of architecture as it enters the mainstream.

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AI Infrastructure

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Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure with Ray

The speakers discuss transitioning AI agents from local FastAPI prototypes to resilient production systems on Kubernetes using Ray. They share operational insights on RayCluster topology, stateful memory handling, auto-scaling on dynamic traffic, and robust control plane designs, while highlighting critical guardrails, multi-region setups, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation pipelines.

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Culture & Methods

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AI is an Amplifier: Scale High Performance, Not Dysfunction

Nathen Harvey shares insights from DORA research on AI adoption in software delivery. He explains why AI acts as an amplifier, how the DORA AI Capabilities Model drives outcomes, and why engineering leaders must evolve beyond bottlenecks like code reviews to achieve sustainable productivity, reduce delivery instability, and empower developers without burning out their teams.

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DevOps

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Exploding GPUs and the AI Infrastructure Challenge

Andrew Martin discusses why AI security is fundamentally tied to Kubernetes security. He shares insights into the evolving AI threat landscape, covering non-deterministic agent behavior, GPU supply chain vulnerabilities, shared compute risks, and practical defense strategies - from prompt firewalling to agentic identity - to help secure cloud-native AI workloads in production environments.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd on Professional Coaching and Leading Conflict

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Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd on Professional Coaching and Leading Conflict

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Lyssa Adkins’ book, Coaching Agile Teams, set a new high water mark for the practice of Agile Coaching and is ranked among the top 10 Agile books. Michael Spayd’s Agile Enterprise model shifts agile to the organizational world of culture, change and leadership. Both experienced as agile and professional coaches, they run the Agile Coaching Institute to grow, teach and mentor Agile coaches.

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The Agile Alliance organizes the Agile series conference, which bring together all the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of agile software development.

Oct 10, 2012

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