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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] AI Autonomy Is Redefining Architecture: Boundaries Now Matter Most

This conversation explores why generative AI is not just another automation layer but a shift into autonomy. The key idea is that we cannot retrofit AI into old procedural workflows and expect it to behave. Once autonomy is introduced, systems will drift, show emergent behaviour, and act in ways we did not explicitly script.

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AI Infrastructure

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Busting AI Myths and Embracing Realities in Privacy & Security

Katharine Jarmul keynotes on common myths around privacy and security in AI and explores what the realities are, covering design patterns that help build more secure, more private AI systems.

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Culture & Methods

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What I Wish I Knew When I Started with Green IT

Ludi Akue discusses how the tech sector’s rising emissions impact our global climate goals. Drawing from her experience as a CTO, she explains seven key lessons for implementing Green IT. She shares insights on LCA assessments, the paradox of microservices, and why FinOps doesn’t always equal green.

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DevOps

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[Video Podcast] Frictionless DevEx with Nicole Forsgren

In this episode, Thomas Betts talks with Dr. Nicole Forsgren, the author of Accelerate and one of the most prominent and important minds in DevOps and developer productivity. The conversation is about identifying and removing developer friction, the subject of her new book, Frictionless.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Bart De Smet on Reactive Extensions (Rx) for .NET and Javascript

Bart De Smet on Reactive Extensions (Rx) for .NET and Javascript

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Bart De Smet is a Software Development Engineer on the Cloud Programmability team, an avid blogger and a popular speaker on various international conferences. In his current role, he’s actively involved in the design and implementation of Reactive Extensions for .NET (Rx) and on an extended “LINQ to Anything” mission.

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Jul 01, 2011

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