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Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too

Brian Martin discusses the real-world performance costs of metrics libraries and shares strategies for low-overhead, "fearless" instrumentation. Drawing from his work at IOP Systems, he explores atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding, lock-free histograms, and eBPF integration to help software architects and engineering leaders maintain full system visibility without sacrificing performance.

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Architecture & Design

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Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: Insights and Patterns for the AI Era

This eMag examines how architects can lead with clarity in a rapidly evolving engineering world, distilling industry insights into field-tested practices for teams. Together, these stories reveal a core theme: the technology leader’s role is expanding from building systems to guiding how tech behaves and learns, while enabling engineers and organizations to bring out their best.

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AI Infrastructure

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From AI Agent Demo to Production: Automated Testing and Evaluation

Zhou Yu discusses why AI agents stall in demo phase and shares how simulation-driven testing solves compliance and reliability bottlenecks. Learn how Columbia and Arklex AI use synthetic user personas, trajectory entropy, and automated CI/CD pipelines to evaluate multi-turn agents, catch edge cases before deployment, and scale self-learning workflows in production.

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Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about hiring for personality and problem-solving over pure skillset, turning around a platform and team in crisis, and how AI is reshaping team size and composition without ending SAAS.

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DevOps

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Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

Anthropic reliability engineer Alex Palcuie shares practical lessons on using LLMs for real-world incident response. He explains where AI acts as a superhuman for observing logs and traces, why it still struggles with causation versus correlation during root-cause analysis, and how engineering leaders can integrate AI into on-call workflows without eroding human expertise.

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Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI

Ricardo Ferreira explains how context engineering overcomes LLM latency, cost, and memory limitations in AI systems, sharing architectural lessons from building a custom Alexa backend with Redis.

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on Sep 02, 2026

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Instrumentation at Scale: Having Your Performance Cake and Eating It Too

Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: Insights and Patterns for the AI Era

From AI Agent Demo to Production: Automated Testing and Evaluation

Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams

Can Claude Fix Itself? Using LLMs for Incident Response

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Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering for Production-Grade AI

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Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: Insights and Patterns for the AI Era

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Rigorous Yet Sustainable Human Reviews in the AI Era

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From AI Agent Demo to Production: Automated Testing and Evaluation

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