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Development

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Stateful Continuation for AI Agents: Why Transport Layers Now Matter

Agent workflows make transport a first-order concern. Multi-turn, tool-heavy loops amplify overhead that is negligible in single-turn LLM use. Stateful continuation cuts overhead dramatically. Caching context server-side can reduce client-sent data by 80%+ and improve execution time by 15–29% .

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Architecture & Design

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Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity

Randy Shoup discusses the "Velocity Initiative," a transformation that doubled engineering productivity and modernized eBay’s DORA metrics. He shares the technical playbook used to scale 4,500 services while explaining why even elite engineering execution can’t save a company hampered by waterfall planning, risk aversion, and a "pathological" culture of fear.

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AI Infrastructure

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Reimagining Platform Engagement with Graph Neural Networks

Mariia Bulycheva discusses the transition from classic deep learning to GNNs for Zalando's landing page. She explains the complexities of converting user logs into heterogeneous graphs, the "message passing" training process, and the technical pitfalls of graph data leakage. She shares how a hybrid architecture solved inference latency, delivering contextual embeddings to a downstream model.

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Culture & Methods

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Tiger Teams, Evals and Agents: The New AI Engineering Playbook

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Sam Bhagwat, co-founder and CEO of Mastra, about building and sustaining open source communities, the emerging discipline of AI engineering and evals, and how cross-functional Tiger Teams are key to shipping agentic applications.

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DevOps

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Beyond One-Click: Designing an Enterprise-Grade Observability Extension for Docker

Docker Extensions boost developer speed but create a "visibility gap" by isolating telemetry. To meet enterprise needs, extensions must act as bridges to centralized platforms. This article details how to use OpenTelemetry, policy-as-code, and encryption to build secure pipelines. Learn to balance developer productivity with the governance required for scalable, compliant observability.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Peter Saddington on Agile Scout & Leveraging Human Capital

Peter Saddington on Agile Scout & Leveraging Human Capital

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Peter Saddington is an Organizational Consultant, Agile Coach and the voice behind the popular Agile Scout blog. He has 3 Masters degrees (Counseling, Education, Theology & Philosophy) and is the author of "The Agile Pocket Guide". He is the co-founder of research and analytics company Action & Influence which measures human dynamics within enterprise cultures. You can reach him at peter@myai.org.

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The Agile Alliance organizes the Agile series conference, which bring together all the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of agile software development.

Feb 27, 2013

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