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Development

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[Video Podcast] AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI coding assistants and gets into where those tools are quickly heading. They then look to the future of how the entire software development lifecycle will see the benefits of AI in the next few years.

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Architecture & Design

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Architecture in the Age of AI: Change and Opportunity

This eMag is designed to bring together insights from industry practitioners to explore how architecture can evolve in the era of AI. From rethinking platforms, automation practices and embracing decentralized decision-making to redefining the architect’s role as coach and enabler, the contributions here highlight strategies for navigating technical and organizational challenges.

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AI Infrastructure

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How to Unlock Insights and Enable Discovery Within Petabytes of Autonomous Driving Data

Kyra Mozley discusses the evolution of autonomous vehicle perception, moving beyond expensive manual labeling to an embedding-first architecture. She explains how to leverage foundation models like CLIP and SAM for auto-labeling, RAG-inspired search, and few-shot adapters. This talk provides engineering leaders a blueprint for building modular, scalable vision systems that thrive on edge cases.

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Culture & Methods

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Kraken's Serverless Architecture for Keeping the Grid Green

Kevin Bowman shares how Kraken Technology balances the UK’s 30GW energy grid using renewable sources. He discusses an architectural blueprint leveraging AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and DynamoDB to manage grid-scale batteries and virtual power plants. Learn how they solve millisecond-latency frequency response and 24-hour predictive optimization to keep the lights on through a serverless stack.

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DevOps

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No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

Po Linn Chia shares the sociotechnical journey of ClassPass, moving from a flaky, homegrown testing framework to a dynamic routing architecture on ECS. She discusses leveraging Traefik and OpenTelemetry baggage to enable "shadow mains" and ephemeral feature testing. This talk provides a pragmatic blueprint for engineering leaders to increase developer velocity with a lean platform team.

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Dave Hoover On Apprenticeship Patterns

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Dave spends the majority of his time as a coach and lead for the Craftsmanship Studio at Obtiva. His passion for learning and mentoring inspired the writing of Software Craftsmanship: From Apprentice to Journeyman.

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The International Ruby Conference or RubyConf, is the official annual gathering of Ruby developers from around the world, founded in 2001. RubyConf has historically been the venue for announcements regarding the future of the Ruby programming language as well as a place for the creators of all the major Ruby implementations to show their work, compare notes and involve the community

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