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Development

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From MCP and Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: How Did AI Native Engineering Evolve in One Year

Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, returns to discuss the rapid evolution of AI in software delivery. She touches on the evolution from vibe coding, the changing tools landscape and the more autonomous agents that, besides higher velocity, introduce higher risk.

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Architecture & Design

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Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix

The speakers discuss the architectural challenges of executing safe data deletion across distributed datastores. Balancing durability, availability & correctness, they explain how to orchestrate multi-system deletion propagation without impacting live traffic. They share lessons on controlling tombstone accumulation, building continuous audit loops, and gaining trust with a centralized platform.

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AI Infrastructure

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Moving Mountains: Migrating Legacy Code in Weeks instead of Years

David Stein shares how to rethink large-scale architectural migrations using AI. He discusses ServiceTitan's "assembly line" pattern, explaining how decomposing legacy codebase refactoring into standardized tasks can achieve massive parallelization. He highlights the critical role of programmatically rigid validation loops to eliminate LLM hallucinations and accelerate engineering agility.

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Culture & Methods

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Craig McLuckie on Culture as a Team's Operating System in the AI Era

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes and CEO of Stacklok, about the impact of AI coding tools on open source communities and engineering teams, designing deliberate organisational culture, and navigating evolving career paths for engineers in the age of AI.

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DevOps

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Confidently Automating Changes Across a Diverse Fleet

Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer shares how to achieve rapid, automated code changes across a massive, diverse software fleet. She discusses building an event-driven orchestration platform using composable, Lego-like steps, and explains how Netflix utilizes automated canary validation, compliance checks, and a custom "confidence metric" to eliminate the long tail of manual engineering migrations.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Esther Derby on Coaching Upwards and Still No Silver Bullet

Esther Derby on Coaching Upwards and Still No Silver Bullet

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Esther Derby is well known for her work in helping teams grow to new levels of productivity. She helps teams and organizations make the transition to agile, and coaches technical people who are making the transition to management. Esther is recognized as one of the world's leaders in retrospectives, and is co-author (with Diana Larsen) of the book Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

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Every day, Agile practitioners and thought leaders are defining and refining new and existing practices that bring Agile’s values and principles to our world of work, play and service. Agile2014 reinforces our understanding of proven methods and illuminates some of the exciting new innovations that represent the future of Agile.

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