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Development

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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase

Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.

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Architecture & Design

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Agentic AI Architecture: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities

Agentic AI architecture extends microservices and cloud-native architectures with AI agents that work with context, memory, and protocols such as MCP and A2A. The article covers bounded-context integration, task-dependent coordination strategies, new security risks, and observability needs. It expects gradual adoption alongside existing architectures, with platforms absorbing common components.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Batch Intelligence at Scale: Cost-Efficient Multi-Agent LLM Workflows with Built-In Resilience

Aditya Mulik explains how Walmart Global Tech deployed multi-agent LLM workflows across 4,700 stores for nightly batch inventory forecasting. He discusses tackling production hurdles - schema violations, cross-department data mismatches, and network drops - via MCP grounding and loop agents, while slashing cloud inference costs from $100k+ to $10k per month shifting from PTUs to pay-as-you-go.

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Culture & Methods

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The Socio-Technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change

Vanessa Formicola shares how technical leaders can move beyond "wishful architecture" by practicing holistic socio-technical engineering. She discusses why engineering leaders must account for organizational maturity, reward structures, geopolitical climate, and team dynamics, framing the staff-plus role as designing the conditions for technology to thrive rather than just picking tools.

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DevOps

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Uncorking Queueing Bottlenecks with OpenTelemetry

Oli Lane and Julian Wreford share how Gearset replaced guesswork in distributed asynchronous queues with OpenTelemetry tracing. They explain why traditional metrics fall short, how to implement user-centric SLOs based on latency distributions, and share practical debugging tips to help senior developers, software architects, and engineering leaders improve system reliability and team culture.

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Michael Mahemoff is a Chrome Developer Advocate for Google, based in London, always looking at ways to make the web a more habitable place for users and developers. He’s been programming on the web since the mid ’90s, in a range of public-facing and enterprise (Java, what else?) contexts, and is the author of Ajax Design Patterns (O’Reilly, 2006) and a blogger.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

Jun 09, 2011

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