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The Technology Adoption Curve, Twenty Years On

Today, June 8th, InfoQ celebrates 20 years. This is not a comprehensive history, but a deliberately selective look at the technologies and practices InfoQ identified early, where they sit on the adoption curve in 2026, and how that curve may evolve over the next five to ten years.

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Architecture & Design

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Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix

The speakers discuss the architectural challenges of executing safe data deletion across distributed datastores. Balancing durability, availability & correctness, they explain how to orchestrate multi-system deletion propagation without impacting live traffic. They share lessons on controlling tombstone accumulation, building continuous audit loops, and gaining trust with a centralized platform.

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AI Infrastructure

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Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey

Senior Solution Architect Viktor Vedmich shares how engineering leaders can maximize application performance using Valkey. He discusses the open-source Redis fork's 100% API compatibility, explores advanced caching strategies like lazy loading, and explains how to implement powerful data structures for real-time analytics, rate limiting, and session stores to solve the thundering herd problem.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – at the Same Startup

Trisha Ballakur discusses her journey from a backend software engineer to CTO and CEO, using her startup Pointz as a case study. She explains how to implement bottom-up customer discovery to find product-market fit, effectively delegate to global contractors to reduce build times, customize open-source repos like Valhalla, and apply engineering test-case models to business development.

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DevOps

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Article Series: Securing the AI Stack: from Model to Production

This series provides your roadmap for the machine age, exploring how to move from vulnerable prototypes to resilient systems through layered defense, robust MLOps, and integrated governance.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews A Conversation with the Core Developer of Redis

A Conversation with the Core Developer of Redis

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Salvatore Sanfilippo, also known as antirez works for Pivotal. He mainly writes open source code and you can find most of his code at github. He is currently the lead developer for Redis, wrote its earliest prototype and is credited as its founder.

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Join the largest gathering of Redis users and experts, anywhere. At RedisConf, you’ll get to: learn from key Redis contributors, share your knowledge and experience, dive deep into Redis with the experts, gain insight into companies running Redis at scale, whether you’re just starting with Redis, or you’re already running large Redis clusters, we want to see you at RedisConf.

Apr 10, 2015

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