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Development

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Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a garbage collector eliminates tail latency and shares how its "zero-cost abstractions" rival C performance. He shares Apple’s roadmap for incremental adoption and demonstrates groundbreaking new interoperability for C++ and Java ecosystems.

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Architecture & Design

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[Video Podcast] Building Resilient Event-Driven Microservices in Financial Systems with Muzeeb Mohammad

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Muzeeb Mohammad about building event-driven microservices for financial systems. The discussion covers some of the core principles and patterns for event-driven architectures, reasons for using these patterns, and some of the challenges related to finance and other highly-regulated industries.

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AI Infrastructure

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Panel: Modern Data Architectures

The panelists emphasize that data engineering is no longer just about "click-and-drag" UI tools; it is software engineering applied to data.

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Culture & Methods

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Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ben Greene about embracing AI in software engineering, expanding beyond pure technical skills to understand business context, and prioritizing human empathy in increasingly automated systems.

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DevOps

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Proactive Autoscaling for Edge Applications in Kubernetes

Kubernetes often reacts too late when traffic suddenly increases at the edge. A proactive scaling approach that considers response time, spare CPU capacity, and container startup delays can add or remove instances more smoothly, prevent sudden spikes, and keep performance stable on systems with limited resources.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Bryan Beecham on XP Not Dead

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Bryan Beecham aka Billy Garnet is a developer, speaker, guitarist, HumanRefactor guide, idea generator, teacher, and continuous Learner. He is a craftsmanship enthusiast and is passionate about improving everyone’s coding style and living mantra by helping them to release their inner child. He speaks passionately about technology and his positive energy is contagious!

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Each year Agile Alliance brings together attendees, speakers, authors, luminaries, and industry analysts from around the world in a one-of-a-kind conference. The Conference is considered the premier Agile event of the year, and provides a week-long opportunity to engage in wide-open interaction, collaboration and sharing of ideas with peers and colleagues within the global Agile community.

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