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Platform Engineering: Lessons from the Rise and Fall of eBay Velocity
Randy Shoup shares how eBay doubled engineering productivity but failed to pivot the business. He explains the technical wins of the Velocity Initiative and the cultural hurdles that remained.
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Reimagining Platform Engagement with Graph Neural Networks
Mariia Bulycheva explains how Zalando utilized Graph Neural Networks to move beyond tabular data, modeling higher-order user-item interactions to optimize long-term engagement and click probability.
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Latency: the Race to Zero...Are We There Yet?
Amir Langer explains the critical role of predictable low latency in fintech, sharing lessons from the past and modern techniques like kernel bypass and Aeron to push systems toward zero latency.
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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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