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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

Featured in Architecture & Design

Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson explain how Spritely's architecture solves core decentralization challenges. They share insights on capability-based access control with Goblins, actor-model communication via OCapN, and petname systems. Discover how Spritely leverages Scheme, WebAssembly (Hoot), and local-first CRDTs to build secure, peer-to-peer applications without central servers.

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AI Infrastructure

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Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design

Mallika Rao explains that the true complexity of adaptive recommendation systems lies outside model architecture. She discusses how real-time feedback loops, retrieval freshness, multi-stage orchestration, and end-to-end latency budgeting enable systems to continuously learn and evolve in production under real-world operational constraints like latency, cost, and observability.

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Culture & Methods

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Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering

David Gudeman discusses battle-tested architectural patterns for resource-constrained engineering teams. Drawing from over a decade of startup experience, he explains how pairing GCP, Firebase, and Cloud Run accelerates product-market fit. Learn how to eliminate redundant frontend state, structure event-driven backends, and maintain lean DevOps while building for long-term scalability.

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DevOps

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Securing AI Agents: Identity, Authorization, and the DPACT Framework

In this episode, Sahil Agarwal talks about the critical challenges of identity, authorisation, and security in the age of AI agents. Sahil introduces the DPACT framework (Delegation, Policy, Auditability, Context, and Time) as a blueprint for building responsible, guardrailed agentic systems, moving away from simple token-based access toward bounded, delegated authority.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Philip Wadler on Functional Programming

Philip Wadler on Functional Programming

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Philip Wadler is Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh, ACM Fellow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, past holder of a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Fellowship, and currently serves as Chair of ACM SIGPLAN. He contributed to the designs of Haskell, Java, and XQuery, and co-authored XQuery from the Experts and Generics and Collections in Java.

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Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

May 03, 2012

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