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Lily Mara explains how to avoid high-risk software rewrites through incremental FFI refactoring. She shares how engineering teams can replace Python bottlenecks with Rust via PyO3, demonstrating how to achieve dramatic function-level speedups, seamless integration testing, and meaningful infrastructure cost savings without microservice overhead.
The article examines the transition from microservices to agentic AI architecture in distributed systems. Microservices allow for functional decomposition, while agentic systems focus on decision decomposition. This shift introduces new complexities in observability, reliability, and system design, highlighting the need for updated architectural patterns and practices.
The speakers discuss transitioning AI agents from local FastAPI prototypes to resilient production systems on Kubernetes using Ray. They share operational insights on RayCluster topology, stateful memory handling, auto-scaling on dynamic traffic, and robust control plane designs, while highlighting critical guardrails, multi-region setups, and LLM-as-a-judge evaluation pipelines.
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Gjertsen, founder of Built and author of Minimum Viable Manager, about the three foundational skills every first-time manager needs, how to build trust and give effective feedback, and why human leadership skills matter even more in the age of AI.
Andrew Martin discusses why AI security is fundamentally tied to Kubernetes security. He shares insights into the evolving AI threat landscape, covering non-deterministic agent behavior, GPU supply chain vulnerabilities, shared compute risks, and practical defense strategies - from prompt firewalling to agentic identity - to help secure cloud-native AI workloads in production environments.
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