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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 GenAI Platform at DoorDash

Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models, navigating LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for over 5,000 internal users.

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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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Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI

The panelists discuss how production operations are evolving with AI, turning operational data into actionable insights for incident response. They explain how automation and new architectural practices help engineering teams build more understandable systems, while exploring how AI reshapes software delivery and changes the historically deterministic nature of production applications.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Chris McMahon on Open Software Testing at Wikipedia

Chris McMahon on Open Software Testing at Wikipedia

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Chris McMahon is a software tester and former professional bass player and is currently the QA Lead at Wikimedia Foundation. Chris has been part of the software testing community since about 2004, both writing about the industry and contributing to open source projects like Watir, Selenium, and FreeBSD as well as testing systems deep and wide from mainframes to web applications.

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Each year Agile Alliance brings together attendees, speakers, authors, luminaries, and industry analysts from around the world in a one-of-a-kind conference. The Conference is considered the premier Agile event of the year, and provides a week-long opportunity to engage in wide-open interaction, collaboration and sharing of ideas with peers and colleagues within the global Agile community.

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