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Development

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A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller

Joe Cassavaugh shares his journey from software engineer to successful solopreneur with a $2M+ indie franchise. He explains how he scaled production to 10 games in 5 years, adopted Unity to boost velocity 4-6x, optimized content pipelines, and leveraged refactoring patterns. He discusses key trade-offs between corporate engineering and solopreneurship for senior devs and leaders.

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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

From Retrieval to Reasoning: Building Production-Ready Agentic AI Systems with Knowledge Graphs

Cassie Shum discusses why knowledge graphs serve as a critical foundation for agentic systems. Moving beyond basic RAG, she explains 4 practical architectural patterns: context bundling, decision provenance, code as truth, and agent visibility. She demonstrates an engineering harness built on a knowledge graph to streamline feedback loops, optimize token usage, and maintain system reliability.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

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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DevOps

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Platform Engineering in the Age of AI

The panelists explain how platform teams adapt to support AI-assisted engineering, highlighting which capabilities belong in the platform. They discuss trade-offs between standardization and developer autonomy, while sharing strategies to manage AI tooling, security guardrails, and shifting workflows.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Venkat Subramaniam on Pragmatic Agile Adoption

Venkat Subramaniam on Pragmatic Agile Adoption

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Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of www.agiledeveloper.com, has trained and mentored over 3000 software developers internationally. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, an adjunct faculty at the University of Houston, and teaches the professional software developer series at Rice University. He is author of ".NET Gotchas" and coauthor of "Practices of an Agile Developer".

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