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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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Building a Session-Ordered Kafka Pipeline in Go

The article describes a custom implementation that provides a session-level ordering on top of Apache Kafka partitions, supporting strict message ordering across 1000s of independent channels. The solution required application-level routing, consistent hashing, retries, and contiguous watermark commits. Engineers conducted operational hardening supported by extensive performance testing.

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When Should You Use Liquid Clustering? Benchmarking Lakehouse Layout Strategies

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The Minimum Viable Manager: Building Trust, Feedback, and Alignment

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Gjertsen, founder of Built and author of Minimum Viable Manager, about the three foundational skills every first-time manager needs, how to build trust and give effective feedback, and why human leadership skills matter even more in the age of AI.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Matthias Sohn on the State of the Eclipse Git Tooling

Matthias Sohn on the State of the Eclipse Git Tooling

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Matthias Sohn is co-leading the Eclipse EGit and JGit projects, and also contributing to Orion and Gerrit Code Review. He works at SAP as a scrum product owner in the area of technology development with a focus on development and cloud infrastructure. Besides that he tries to help the SAP development organization to learn from successful Open Source projects.

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EclipseCon North America is the annual conference for the Eclipse community. It is an opportunity for developers who use Eclipse technology to learn, explore, share and collaborate on the latest ideas and information about Eclipse technology and software development.

May 17, 2015

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