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Development

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Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too

Brian Martin discusses the real-world performance costs of metrics libraries and shares strategies for low-overhead, "fearless" instrumentation. Drawing from his work at IOP Systems, he explores atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding, lock-free histograms, and eBPF integration to help software architects and engineering leaders maintain full system visibility without sacrificing performance.

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Architecture & Design

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Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: Insights and Patterns for the AI Era

This eMag examines how architects can lead with clarity in a rapidly evolving engineering world, distilling industry insights into field-tested practices for teams. Together, these stories reveal a core theme: the technology leader’s role is expanding from building systems to guiding how tech behaves and learns, while enabling engineers and organizations to bring out their best.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

A Few Predicted Talks From QConAI 2030

Meryem Arik discusses her predictions for software engineering in 2030. She explains how token spend management, parallel agent infrastructure, and non-technical builders will reshape IT. She shares insights on agent-driven vendor decisions, upcoming regulatory hurdles, and why software engineers must pivot from pure coding skills toward product leadership and multi-agent coordination.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about hiring for personality and problem-solving over pure skillset, turning around a platform and team in crisis, and how AI is reshaping team size and composition without ending SAAS.

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DevOps

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Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Anthropic reliability engineer Alex Palcuie shares practical lessons on using LLMs for real-world incident response. He explains where AI acts as a superhuman for observing logs and traces, why it still struggles with causation versus correlation during root-cause analysis, and how engineering leaders can integrate AI into on-call workflows without eroding human expertise.

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What's working across AI, architecture, and leadership, from the teams doing it.
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QCon AI New York

Production AI across agents, context, evals, security, and infrastructure, from the senior engineers building it.
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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Mike Griffiths on DSDM, Agile and the PMI

Mike Griffiths on DSDM, Agile and the PMI

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Mike Griffiths is a project manager, trainer, consultant and writer, holding multiple project management and Agile certifications. In 1994, he helped create DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method). He is the author of "PMI-ACP Exam Prep", was on the original PMI-ACP Steering Committee and helped create the PMBOK v5 Guide and Software Extension. He maintains his own blog at leadinganswers.com.

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The Agile Alliance organizes the Agile series conference, which bring together all the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of agile software development.

Mar 22, 2013

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