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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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Panel: Who Builds the Frontend Now? (And What Breaks When They Do)

The panelists explain how AI tools and vibe coding reshape frontend and mobile engineering. They share insights on evolving junior developer roles, managing AI-generated code review fatigue, designing systems for autonomous agents, enforcing architectural guardrails, and navigating economic shifts in open-source software sustainability.

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AI Infrastructure

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Zero Trust Agent Systems that Pass Audits and Still Ship

Advait Patel shares a playbook for securing AI agent systems in production. He discusses moving defense boundaries from the prompt to the tool layer, enforcing scoped workload identities, and mitigating prompt injection via tool outputs. He explains how to structure audit-ready observability and implement kill switches to protect critical data while keeping deployment fast and compliant.

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Culture & Methods

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The Socio-Technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change

Vanessa Formicola shares how technical leaders can move beyond "wishful architecture" by practicing holistic socio-technical engineering. She discusses why engineering leaders must account for organizational maturity, reward structures, geopolitical climate, and team dynamics, framing the staff-plus role as designing the conditions for technology to thrive rather than just picking tools.

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DevOps

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Wrangling Telemetry at Scale: a Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

Colin Douch shares battle-tested strategies for building and scaling self-hosted observability stacks. He explains how to effectively correlate metrics, structured logs, and distributed traces using open-source tooling like Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, and Jaeger, while navigating the engineering trade-offs of avoiding SaaS vendor lock-in.

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Building RAG pipelines or AI agents? Work through retrieval, context, evals, and reliability decisions with experienced practitioners.
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Production AI across agents, context, evals, security, and infrastructure, from the senior engineers building it.
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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Martijn Verburg Talks About jClarity, Adopt a JSR and Java Security

Martijn Verburg Talks About jClarity, Adopt a JSR and Java Security

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Martijn Verburg is the CTO of jClarity and has over 12 years experience as a technology professional and OSS mentor in a variety of environments from start-ups to large enterprises. He is the co-leader of the London Java Community and leads the global effort for the Java User Group's "Adopt a JSR" and "Adopt OpenJDK" programmes.

About the conference

Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

Apr 23, 2013

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