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Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a garbage collector eliminates tail latency and shares how its "zero-cost abstractions" rival C performance. He shares Apple’s roadmap for incremental adoption and demonstrates groundbreaking new interoperability for C++ and Java ecosystems.

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Architecture & Design

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Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Sub‑100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fan‑out, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. But long‑term speed depends on culture, with teams owning p99, monitoring drift, managing thread pools, and treating performance as a shared, continuous responsibility.

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Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems

Sarah Usher discusses the architectural "breaking point" where warehouses like BigQuery struggle with latency and cost. She explains the necessity of a conceptual data lifecycle (Raw, Curated, Use Case) to regain control over lineage and innovation. She shares practical strategies to design a single source of truth that empowers both ML teams and analytics without bottlenecking scale.

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Culture & Methods

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Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi discusses the strategic evolution required to lead 100+ engineers without breaking the organization. He explains his "Three Levels of Impact" framework and shares practical lessons on speeding up decision-making, cultivating leadership teams, and building organizational resilience. Learn why he views reorgs as a continuous deployment feature rather than a one-time traumatic event.

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DevOps

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From Alert Fatigue to Agent-Assisted Intelligent Observability

As systems grow, observability becomes harder to maintain and incidents harder to diagnose. Agentic observability layers AI on existing tools, starting in read-only mode to detect anomalies and summarize issues. Over time, agents add context, correlate signals, and automate low-risk tasks. This approach frees engineers to focus on analysis and judgment.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Kevin Rutherford on Refactoring Ruby And Code Smells

Kevin Rutherford on Refactoring Ruby And Code Smells

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Kevin Rutherford is an Agile coach from the Manchester area in the UK, more info at http://www.kevinrutherford.co.uk/ He recently co-wrote the book 'Refactoring in Ruby' (http://www.refactoringinruby.info/).

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The Scottish Ruby Conference rebrands the successful Scotland on Rails conference. It is the same team organising the same event that ran in 2008 and 2009, but with a more accurate name and an exciting new venue: The Royal College of Physicians in the centre of Edinburgh.

Aug 25, 2010

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Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems

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From Alert Fatigue to Agent-Assisted Intelligent Observability

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