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Choosing Your AI Copilot: Maximizing Developer Productivity
Sepehr Khosravi explains how to achieve 15-20% productivity gains using Cursor and Claude Code, sharing advanced tips for AI agents, custom rules, and reassessing software development assumptions.
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When Every Bit Counts: How Valkey Rebuilt Its Hashtable for Modern Hardware
Madelyn Olson explains how Valkey optimized its core hash table to reduce memory overhead by 20% while maintaining the high-throughput performance and backward compatibility Redis users expect.
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Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit
Adrian Cockcroft shares how he uses AI agents to deliver days of coding in minutes. He discusses the shift toward "NoDev" and why engineering leaders must evolve into directors of agentic swarms.
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Hidden Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making
Dan Fike and Shawna Martell discuss "hidden decisions" - the unintentional defaults in culture, incentives, and architecture that shape technical debt, team behavior, and long-term career strategy.
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Open Source, Community, and Consequence: the Story of MongoDB
Andrew Davidson and Akshat Vig share the "MongoDB Way", discussing how to disrupt a 50-year database legacy by leveraging the document model, community trust, and rapid, public iteration.
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From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome
Nicole Forsgren explains why AI alone won't solve developer productivity. She shares how to identify friction in the "outer loop" and use DevEx frameworks to build sustainable, high-performing teams.
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Humans in the Loop: Engineering Leadership in a Chaotic Industry
Michelle Brush discusses engineering leadership in the age of AI/ML and automation.
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