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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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Local First – How To Build Software Which Still Works After the Acquihire
Alex Good explains how to build robust, local-first collaborative software using generic synchronization infrastructure and CRDTs to eliminate server dependency and enhance user agency.
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State of Play: AI Coding Assistants
Birgitta Böckeler explains the shift from basic autocomplete to autonomous agents. She shares how context engineering, subagents, and "harness engineering" are redefining senior developer roles.
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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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Duolingo's Kubernetes Leap
Franka Passing explains Duolingo's migration from AWS ECS to EKS, discussing how they built a foundation with Argo CD and Karpenter to enable blue-green deployments for 128M+ active users.
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Panel: Taking Architecture out of the Echo Chamber
Andrew Harmel-Law leads a panel of experts to discuss the future of architecture. They share how to decentralize decision-making, communicate risk to stakeholders, and evolve technical career paths.
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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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The Principal Engineer’s Path: Skills, Strategies, and Lessons Learned
Sophie Weston shares how to navigate the "squiggly" path to principal engineer. She discusses the "broken comb" skill set, the engineer-manager pendulum, and how to drive growth beyond the IDE.
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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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Are We Ready for the Next Cyber Security Crisis Like Log4shell?
Soroosh Khodami shares a "horror story" on supply chain attacks. He explains how one Maven or npm command can gift hackers a reverse shell and shares critical strategies like SBOMs to defend teams.
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Security and Architecture: to Betray One is to Destroy Both
Shana Dacres-Lawrence discusses the "betrayals" between security and architecture. She explains how delivery pressure and assumed trust lead to failures and shares five strategies for a lasting union.
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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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