InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Chronon - Airbnb’s End-to-End Feature Platform
Nikhil Simha discusses Airbnb's Feature Platform, focusing on the recent efforts to solve the challenges, specifically covering: core APIs, training data generation, feature serving and observability.
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Building Better Platforms with Empathy: Case Studies and Counter-Examples
David Stenglein discusses the shift to a product model for internal platforms and how this benefits from people-centric tools like customer empathy and the new DevEx framework.
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Generative AI and Organizational Resilience
Alex Cruikshank discusses where GenAI is likely to have the greatest impact, steps to manage this change, and ways to leverage the shift to AI mediated work to better understand business processes.
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CI/CD beyond YAML: The Evolution Towards Pipelines-as-Code
Conor Barber explores the evolution of infrastructure, focusing on the shift from YAML configurations to pipelines-as-code, covering modern CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions, GitLab, and CircleCI.
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Hydration and Lazy-Loading Are Incompatible
Miško Hevery discusses Hydration and Lazy-loading, building a simple counter to show how hydration will thwart the ability to lazy load it or minimize the amount of code executed.
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Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges
Adam Schirmacher discusses the “transparent umbrella” strategy, treating staff+ engineers like senior engineers, handling mismatched IQ/EQ, and leading without authority vs. lending authority.
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Harnessing Exotic Hardware: Charting the Future of JVM Performance
Monica Beckwith discusses the world of the JVM and its evolving relationship with exotic hardware. She presents a hypothetical scenario where GPU optimization plays a pivotal role.
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An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Erin Doyle discusses her experience with a critical 3-day-long incident and how she missed a key opportunity to help prevent the incident and how to build a culture to prevent similar situations.
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Developer Experience in the Age of Generative AI
Renato Losio and expert panelists discuss how generative AI is transforming developer experience, addressing its impact on productivity, tools, and the evolving role of engineers.
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Pulumi Adventures: How Python Empowered My Infrastructure beyond YAML
Adora Nwodo discusses her journey from backend software engineering into the realm of DevOps, exploring how Pulumi became the pivotal tool that empowered her transition.
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Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Caleb Hyde discusses their career progression and regressions, as well the context they used to figure out what to work on and whom to work with, distilling a framework to utilize in one’s own work.
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Delivering Millions of Notifications within Seconds During the Super Bowl
Zhen Zhou discusses how they built/test an on-demand notification system, what it takes to manage cloud resources/site-reliability at the same time, and how to mitigate reliability issues.
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