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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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Spec-Driven Development – Adoption at Enterprise Scale

Spec‑Driven Development shifts AI‑augmented software delivery from tactical prompting to collaborative intent articulation. Enterprises face gaps in tooling, workflow integration, multi‑repo coordination, and cross‑functional collaboration. Sustainable adoption requires treating specs as living, shared interfaces, and evolving organizational practices.

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AI Infrastructure

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DevOps Modernization: AI Agents, Intelligent Observability and Automation

The panelists share how AI is redefining DevOps and SRE practices by moving teams beyond reactive monitoring toward predictive, automated delivery and operations. They discuss integrating AI agents into CI/CD pipelines and feature management to enable intelligent rollouts and machine-speed remediation.

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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 Elisabeth Hendrickson on the State of Functional Testing Tools

Elisabeth Hendrickson on the State of Functional Testing Tools

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Elisabeth Hendrickson has over 20 years software industry experience and has been working with Agile teams since 2004. She is a Certified Scrum Master, a respected thought leader in Agile Testing, a former member of the board of the Agile Alliance, and co-organizer of the Agile Alliance Functional Testing Tools program. Her Google Tech Talk on Agile Testing has received rave reviews.

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The Agile 2010 conference is created by a production team of highly respected Agile experts and practitioners to present a program that spans the whole spectrum of agile practice.The Agile conference series is a organized as a program of the Agile Alliance, a non-profit organization dedicated to uncovering better ways of developing software inspired by the values and principles of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

Oct 28, 2010

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