InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel explain why they outgrew traditional CDC at scale. They share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) using a proxy layer to decouple data replication.
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From Hype to Strong Foundations: What the Rise, Fall and Resurgence of Agents Can Teach Us About Outlasting the Cycle
Aditya Kumarakrishnan discusses "Agents: The Missing Manual," sharing four historically grounded ideas to build modular, durable, and hyper-tenant AI agent architectures.
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Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break
Paul Klein explains how to automate the web with MCP. He shares architectural strategies for running multi-tenant, cloud-hosted Chromium sandboxes to power AI browsing agents.
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Practical Performance Tuning for Serverless Java on AWS
AWS Hero Vadym Kazulkin discusses optimizing serverless Java on AWS Lambda. He explains how to slash cold start latencies below one second using managed SnapStart, priming, and GraalVM AOT.
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Moving Mountains: Migrating Legacy Code in Weeks Instead of Years
Principal AI Engineer David Stein explains how ServiceTitan uses AI coding agents to automate large-scale legacy code migrations, compressing quarters of technical debt into weeks.
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Building and Scaling UI Systems for Internal Tools at Meta
Meta frontend engineer Cindy Zhang explains how a lean team scaled an internal UI design system to over 10,000 tools, sharing technical strategies for monorepo codemods and community intake.
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Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering and Memory Management for AI Systems at Scale
Adi Polak explains how to scale agentic AI by shifting from stateless prompt engineering to stateful, low-latency context engineering with Apache Kafka and Flink.
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Confidently Automating Changes across a Diverse Fleet
Netflix engineer Casey Bleifer explains how the company is automating fleet-wide code changes and migrations at scale, driving adoption timelines down from months to mere days with confidence.
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Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann explains how de facto standards, multi-cloud strategies, the AT Protocol, and local-first software can mitigate geopolitical risks and eliminate vendor lock-in.
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Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey
Viktor Vedmich explains how to achieve sub-millisecond application latency using Valkey, an open-source, high-performance in-memory fork of Redis supported by AWS.
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Platform Teams Enabling AI - MCP/Multi-Agentic Tools across Linkedin
LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri explain how to scale engineering with agentic AI. They discuss building centralized platform foundations for orchestration, tooling, and context.
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Architecting a Centralized Platform for Data Deletion at Netflix
Netflix Engineers Vidhya Arvind and Shawn Liu discuss the pillars of safe, large-scale data deletion. They explain strategies to eliminate data ghosts and manage tombstone resource contention.