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Development

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Python, Numba, and Algorithm Design: Building Efficient Models in Financial Services

Chad Schuster discusses bridging Python's developer velocity with C-like performance using Numba JIT and GPUs. Drawing from large-scale actuarial modeling, he explains LLVM pipeline architecture, performance gains up to 750x, and essential trade-offs like OOP limits, type inference errors, and compile-time overhead for engineering leaders scaling compute-heavy enterprise systems.

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Architecture & Design

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From DVDs to Global Streaming: How Netflix’s Commerce Architecture Actually Evolved

Kasia Trapszo discusses how Netflix evolved its commerce platform from a U.S. DVD service into global infrastructure. She explains navigating international payment realities, adapting to strict regulatory mandates, decomposing monolithic architectures along domain boundaries, and re-architecting systems for massive live-event demand - proving great systems survive by continually evolving.

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AI Infrastructure

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Architecting the Data Layer for AI Agents: From Transactional Systems to MCP and Semantic Models

Fabiane Nardon shares how TOTVS prepares enterprise data for token-hungry AI agents. She discusses balancing deterministic logic and non-deterministic LLMs across precision, security, and cost. Nardon details using data mesh, low-latency database architectures, semantic ontologies, and dynamic MCP tool selection to optimize context windows and reduce token overhead in transactional systems.

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Culture & Methods

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Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs

Shift-left and DevOps have impacted how we flow changes from inception to production, but at the cost of increased cognitive load and duplication of effort across testing, security, and maintenance. This article explores the real-world challenges of rightsizing developer platforms and finding a cultural match for engineering teams who use them to reduce cognitive load and deliver change faster.

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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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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Graham Lee on Application Security, Sandboxing on OS X, Mobile Application Development

Graham Lee on Application Security, Sandboxing on OS X, Mobile Application Development

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Graham Lee is a security consultant and contract developer, specialising in iOS and Mac OS X application development. He is the author of "Professional Cocoa Application Security", published by Wiley in 2010 and described as a "must read" by someone who isn't even related to him. Graham lives and works in Oxford, UK.

About the conference

GOTO Copenhagen is produced jointly by Trifork and DANSK IT and is a vendor independent conference where the program is put together by a Program Committee. The target audience for GOTO conferences are software developers, IT architects and project managers.http://gotocon.com/

Aug 10, 2012

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