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Development

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Practical Robustness: Going beyond Memory Safety in Rust

Andy Brinkmeyer shares how engineering leaders and architects can use Rust to build failure-proof systems. Moving beyond memory safety, he explains how ownership, enums, and the typestate pattern embed complex runtime protocols into compile-time checks. Learn to eliminate entire classes of bugs, manage real-world resources safely, and maximize codebase robustness effortlessly.

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Comprehension at AI Speed: Building a Context Store for Evolutionary Architecture

AI makes the first 80% of development feel fast, but hides architectural complexity until it's too late. To prevent system instability, engineering leaders must shift from raw throughput to systemic comprehension. By unifying spec-anchored SDD, TDD, and automated fitness functions into a repo-bound "Context Store," teams can ensure AI agents and human reviewers evolve code safely.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Postgres for Production Agents: Your Relational Foundation for Enterprise AI

Gwen Shapira shares how teams are scaling AI features using PostgreSQL for mission-critical apps. She explains how to leverage Postgres's multi-modal capabilities - including JSONB parsing and high-recall HNSW vector indexing - to deliver deterministic and semantic context to LLMs. She also discusses vector quantization to speed up queries by 4x and strategies for managing agentic memory.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?

Davide de Paolis discusses the realities of rolling out cloud infrastructure compliance without fracturing developer relations. Drawing from a real-world platform team reboot at Sevdesk, he explains how to implement "minimum viable governance" on AWS, utilize event-driven Slack alerting to automate policy feedback, and shift from rigid enforcement to high-empathy, data-driven collaboration.

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DevOps

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Chaos Engineering GPU Clusters

Bryan Oliver discusses the frontier of AI infrastructure: chaos engineering for large-scale GPU clusters. He shares how engineering leaders can handle complex topologies, network protocols like RDMA, and NUMA misalignments. Discover seven practical fault-injection strategies to maximize multi-million dollar hardware efficiency and build robust observability loops.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript

Avi Bryant on Trendly, Ruby, Smalltalk and Javascript

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Bio

Avi Bryant is the co-CEO of Dabble DB, a Vancouver startup focused on web-based data management and collaboration tools. He is the author of the Seaside web application framework, and is active in the open source Squeak Smalltalk community. His latest project is http://trendly.com/

About the conference

FutureRuby isn't a Ruby conference, but a conference for Rubyists. This is a call to order - a congress of the curious characters that drew us to this community in the first place. We have a singular opportunity to express a long-term vision, a future where Ruby drives creativity and prosperity without being dampened by partisan politics.

Aug 26, 2009

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