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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

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Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Ian Cooper discusses managing asynchronous APIs in event-driven architectures at scale. He explains the "ABCs" of messaging (Address, Binding, Contract) and shares how to tackle discovery, governance, and provisioning using AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, schema registries, and automated CI/CD infrastructure pipelines based on real-world engineering practices at Just Eat Takeaway.

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AI Infrastructure

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Building Reusable Evaluation Frameworks for Agentic AI Products

Susan Chang explains how Elastic transitioned from siloed, ad-hoc AI agent evaluations to a unified, production-grade framework. She discusses balancing LLM-as-a-judge with deterministic rules, bridging Python data science evals with TypeScript production code, and implementing deep tracing to catch regressions across complex RAG and cybersecurity workloads while preserving domain context.

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Culture & Methods

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Keeping the Mainline Green across Diverse Language Monorepos

Dhruva Juloori discusses how Uber maintains green mainlines across massive monorepos handling 65,000+ monthly changes. He explains how SubmitQueue uses binary speculation trees, conflict analysis, and machine learning models to predict build success and execution times. Juloori shares how bypassing large diffs slashed CI resource usage by 53% while accelerating PR landing times by 37%.

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DevOps

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Future Cybersecurity: Hardware Memory Safety, Automated Governance and Post-Quantum Cryptography

In this episode, Chris Swan, engineer at Atsign and security track host at QCon London, reflects on the ideas shared during QCon London 2026 and teases topics of the future edition. The discussion explores how security engineering is shifting from relying on human vigilance toward automated, system-level defences across the entire application stack.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Neil Killick on No Estimates

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Neil Killick is an independent coach and consultant with over 17 years of experience delivering software in various capacities. He provides software delivery coaching, project management and BA services in the Agile/Lean space, and is passionate about effective software delivery and humanising the workplace.

About the conference

Agile Australia is the national Australian conference on Agile, attracting over 850 delegates in 2013. In its fifth year, the conference was themed Accelerate Innovation and featured thought leaders on innovation and business, including Dave Snowden, Bjarte Bogsnes and Ryan Martens. Agile Australia 2013 was sponsored by Rally, ThoughtWorks, IBM, Telstra, and Atlassian and is managed by SlatteryIT.

Sep 07, 2013

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