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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

Featured in Architecture & Design

Beyond Relevance: A Governance-First Architecture for Enterprise Personalization

This article examines the limitations of conventional personalization systems and highlights the need for a governance-first architecture. It emphasizes separating relevance from governance to ensure recommendations are context-aware, auditable, and compliant. The architecture integrates stateful memory, policy-driven AI orchestration, and explainable scoring to enhance personalization systems.

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AI Infrastructure

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The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents

OpenAI’s Vinoth Govindarajan discusses why production AI agents fail beyond model hallucination. Using real-world case studies like OpenClaw, he explains the key principles of reliable agent harnesses: establishing explicit state ownership, serializing concurrent state mutations, scoping execution authority, and validating actions at the user-visible edge.

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Culture & Methods

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Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering

Phillip Mortimer discusses the shift toward write-only software driven by AI code generation. He explains why traditional pull requests are broken and shares how engineering leaders can manage complexity by decoupling intent from implementation, automating code reviews, and building self-healing architecture to unleash developer creativity across senior engineering and architecture teams.

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DevOps

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Securing AI Agents: Identity, Authorization, and the DPACT Framework

In this episode, Sahil Agarwal talks about the critical challenges of identity, authorisation, and security in the age of AI agents. Sahil introduces the DPACT framework (Delegation, Policy, Auditability, Context, and Time) as a blueprint for building responsible, guardrailed agentic systems, moving away from simple token-based access toward bounded, delegated authority.

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QCon San Francisco

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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What early-adopter teams have proven in production, across 15 engineering tracks.
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InfoQ Homepage Interviews John Shook On Lean Change and the A3 Process

John Shook On Lean Change and the A3 Process

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John Shook is chairman and CEO of the Lean Enterprise Institute (LEI). Shook learned about lean production and management while working for Toyota for over 10 years in Japan and the U.S., helping it transfer production, engineering, and management systems from Japan to NUMMI, the GM-Toyota joint venture, and subsequently to other operations around the world.

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LeanUX NYC provides expert insight into some of the ways Lean, Lean Startup, Kanban and Design Thinking practices are being combined by people already doing it - the real pros, the upper echelon, the ones driving the iterative discovery and development of new products for both startups and enterprises.

Jun 09, 2014

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