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Development

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Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a garbage collector eliminates tail latency and shares how its "zero-cost abstractions" rival C performance. He shares Apple’s roadmap for incremental adoption and demonstrates groundbreaking new interoperability for C++ and Java ecosystems.

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Architecture & Design

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Software Evolution with Microservices and LLMs: A Conversation with Chris Richardson

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke with Chris Richardson about using microservices to modernize software applications and the use of artificial intelligence in software architecture. We first discussed the problems of monolithic enterprise software and how to use microservices to evolve them to enable fast flow - the ability to achieve rapid software delivery.

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AI Infrastructure

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Building a Least-Privilege AI Agent Gateway for Infrastructure Automation with MCP, OPA, and Ephemeral Runners

This article presents a least-privilege AI Agent Gateway that places clear controls between AI agents and infrastructure. Agents do not access infrastructure APIs directly. Instead, every request is validated, authorized using policy as code with Open Policy Agent (OPA), and executed in short-lived, isolated environments, with built-in observability using OpenTelemetry.

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Culture & Methods

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Beyond Code: How Engineers Need to Evolve in the AI Era

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Ben Greene about embracing AI in software engineering, expanding beyond pure technical skills to understand business context, and prioritizing human empathy in increasingly automated systems.

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DevOps

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Proactive Autoscaling for Edge Applications in Kubernetes

Kubernetes often reacts too late when traffic suddenly increases at the edge. A proactive scaling approach that considers response time, spare CPU capacity, and container startup delays can add or remove instances more smoothly, prevent sudden spikes, and keep performance stable on systems with limited resources.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Max Sklar on Machine Learning at Foursquare

Max Sklar on Machine Learning at Foursquare

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Max Sklar is an engineer and a machine learning specialist. At Foursquare, his objective is to constantly make the application smarter and more interesting for users. Before Foursquare, Max contributed to the emerging location-based social space with the creation of Stickymap. Max holds an M.S. in Information Systems from NYU, and a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale.

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Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

Aug 09, 2012

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