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Development

Featured in Development

Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too

Brian Martin discusses the real-world performance costs of metrics libraries and shares strategies for low-overhead, "fearless" instrumentation. Drawing from his work at IOP Systems, he explores atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding, lock-free histograms, and eBPF integration to help software architects and engineering leaders maintain full system visibility without sacrificing performance.

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: Insights and Patterns for the AI Era

This eMag examines how architects can lead with clarity in a rapidly evolving engineering world, distilling industry insights into field-tested practices for teams. Together, these stories reveal a core theme: the technology leader’s role is expanding from building systems to guiding how tech behaves and learns, while enabling engineers and organizations to bring out their best.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

From AI Agent Demo to Production: Automated Testing and Evaluation

Zhou Yu discusses why AI agents stall in demo phase and shares how simulation-driven testing solves compliance and reliability bottlenecks. Learn how Columbia and Arklex AI use synthetic user personas, trajectory entropy, and automated CI/CD pipelines to evaluate multi-turn agents, catch edge cases before deployment, and scale self-learning workflows in production.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about hiring for personality and problem-solving over pure skillset, turning around a platform and team in crisis, and how AI is reshaping team size and composition without ending SAAS.

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DevOps

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Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Anthropic reliability engineer Alex Palcuie shares practical lessons on using LLMs for real-world incident response. He explains where AI acts as a superhuman for observing logs and traces, why it still struggles with causation versus correlation during root-cause analysis, and how engineering leaders can integrate AI into on-call workflows without eroding human expertise.

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What's working across AI, architecture, and leadership, from the teams doing it.
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QCon AI New York

Production AI across agents, context, evals, security, and infrastructure, from the senior engineers building it.
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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Andrew Hunt on Pragmatic Programming

Andrew Hunt on Pragmatic Programming

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Andy Hunt is one of the original Manifesto 17 signatories. He is a programmer turned consultant, author and publisher. He co-authored the best-selling book The Pragmatic Programmer and six others, including Pragmatic Thinking & Learning, and co-founded the Pragmatic Bookshelf, publishing award-winning and critically acclaimed books for software developers.

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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.

Nov 25, 2011

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