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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

Featured in Architecture & Design

Software Evolution with Microservices and LLMs: A Conversation with Chris Richardson

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Chris Richardson about using microservices to modernize software applications and the use of artificial intelligence in software architecture. We first discussed the problems of monolithic enterprise software and how to use microservices to evolve them to enable fast flow - the ability to achieve rapid software delivery.

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AI Infrastructure

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Building a Least-Privilege AI Agent Gateway for Infrastructure Automation with MCP, OPA, and Ephemeral Runners

This article presents a least-privilege AI Agent Gateway that places clear controls between AI agents and infrastructure. Agents do not access infrastructure APIs directly. Instead, every request is validated, authorized using policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA), and executed in short-lived, isolated environments, with built-in observability using OpenTelemetry.

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Culture & Methods

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Virtual Panel - Culture, Code, and Platform: Building High-Performing Teams

In this virtual panel, we'll focus on performance improvement through platform engineering and fostering developer experience, to increase productivity, quality, developer well-being, and more. We'll also explore the role that tech leadership can play in culture change and performance improvement for software development organizations.

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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 Jacob Fahrenkrug on Building a Secure Platform for the Smart Home

Jacob Fahrenkrug on Building a Secure Platform for the Smart Home

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Jacob Fahrenkrug is yetu´s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Jacob started his professional career at Hypoport Group, where he took technical responsibility for the mortgage market place in the Netherlands. Following that Jacob became Chief Software Engineer in charge of development and technologies for a business unit of Deutsche Post DHL. In 2014 he joined yetu as Lead Architect.

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The GOTO Berlin program is created "for developers, by developers" where the emphasis is placed on presenting latest developments as they become relevant and interesting for the software development community. Some of the industry's best speakers, practioners and trainers will be at GOTO Berlin to present and train on a variety of topic areas.

Jan 23, 2015

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