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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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Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Ian Cooper discusses managing asynchronous APIs in event-driven architectures at scale. He explains the "ABCs" of messaging (Address, Binding, Contract) and shares how to tackle discovery, governance, and provisioning using AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, schema registries, and automated CI/CD infrastructure pipelines based on real-world engineering practices at Just Eat Takeaway.

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AI Infrastructure

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Building Reusable Evaluation Frameworks for Agentic AI Products

Susan Chang explains how Elastic transitioned from siloed, ad-hoc AI agent evaluations to a unified, production-grade framework. She discusses balancing LLM-as-a-judge with deterministic rules, bridging Python data science evals with TypeScript production code, and implementing deep tracing to catch regressions across complex RAG and cybersecurity workloads while preserving domain context.

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Culture & Methods

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Keeping the Mainline Green across Diverse Language Monorepos

Dhruva Juloori discusses how Uber maintains green mainlines across massive monorepos handling 65,000+ monthly changes. He explains how SubmitQueue uses binary speculation trees, conflict analysis, and machine learning models to predict build success and execution times. Juloori shares how bypassing large diffs slashed CI resource usage by 53% while accelerating PR landing times by 37%.

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DevOps

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Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from 20+ Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Matthew Liste explains the 12 core principles of building scalable, reliable platforms for enterprise tech teams. From avoiding technical debt and managing deprecation to building a strong engineering culture, Liste discusses how to design infrastructure platforms that reduce complexity, streamline developer workflows, and deliver long-term value for senior architects and engineering leaders.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Em Campbell-Pretty on the Journey of SAFe and Thawing Middle Management

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Em Campbell-Pretty on the Journey of SAFe and Thawing Middle Management

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Em is a partner at Context Matters and recognised expert in Scaling Agile and Agile Data Warehousing and frequently speaks about her experiences at conferences across Australia and the United States. In 2012, she launched Australia’s first Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Agile Release Train. She blogs about her “Adventures in Scaling Agile” at PrettyAgile.com.

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In its 14th year, the Agile Alliance global conference is the leading international, noncommercial conference on Agile methods in software development. At the heart of each Agile Conference is connecting and sharing. Attendees gather, many for consecutive years, to meet with peers and the foremost leaders in the Agile space. The relationships made, support received, and knowledge gained provide an enriching and long-lasting experience that fosters both individual success and the collective advancement of the industry.

Nov 20, 2015

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