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Moving Your Bugs Forward in Time: Language Trends That Help You Catch Your Bugs at Build Time Instead of Run Time

Chris Price discusses the critical shift from catching bugs at runtime to identifying them during the build process. He explains how leveraging modern programming language features such as static typing in dynamic languages, null safety, immutable data structures, and exhaustive pattern matching can significantly enhance code maintainability and prevent expensive production issues.

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Architecture & Design

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Slack's Migration to a Cellular Architecture

Cooper Bethea explains the need for a cellular architecture at Slack, triggered by availability zone outages. He details the "before" & "after" of their production environment, emphasizing the strategic choices made for services with varying consistency requirements. Discover the success drivers, including incremental implementation and embracing "good enough," that enabled this complex migration.

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AI Infrastructure

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How to Build Effective LLMs When Both Basic Infrastructure and Model Training Data Are Lacking

Olimpiu Pop discusses with Jade Abbott, CTO and co-founder of Lelapa AI, how basic infrastructure scarcities found on the African continent can ignite innovation and help push forward the AI space. Particularly when dealing with never-written languages, you need to be innovative to generate proper data and divide the problem into minor problems that can be solved with fewer intensive resources.

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InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2025

This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space.

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DevOps

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Implement the EU Cyber Resilience Act's Requirements to Strengthen Your Software Project

Eddie Knight, OSPO lead at Sonatype, discusses how the EU Cyber Resilience Act can help with improving your software project’s security and in the same time to slow down the alarming acceleration of software supply chain attacks.

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Summary

In this talk from RubyFringe, GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner talks about a methodical approach to solving problems and debugging. Also: he explains how to use the "Deathbed Filter" for choosing projects.

Bio

Tom Preston-Werner is one of the founders of GitHub. He's created various Ruby tools such as the monitoring tool god, and many more.

About the conference

RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting a unique and eccentric gathering of the people and projects that are driving things forward in our community.

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