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Intended for architects and senior developers.
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Developers Can Improve the ESG Aspects of Software by Tackling Early Ethical Debt
Erica Pisani, host of the Performance and Sustainability track at QCon London 2025, reflects on lessons from assembling the track and from attending the talks. She touches on the importance of the environmental and social aspects of software and hints at how developers can improve them through small steps in the architecture and practices of software development.
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[Video Podcast] AI-Driven Development with Olivia McVicker
In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Olivia McVicker, a Senior Cloud Advocate at Microsoft about AI-driven software development. The conversation covers the current, mainstream AI coding assistants and gets into where those tools are quickly heading. They then look to the future of how the entire software development lifecycle will see the benefits of AI in the next few years.
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Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
In this podcast, InfoQ spoke with Somtochi Onyekwere on recent developments in distributed data systems, how to achieve fast, eventually consistent replication across distributed nodes, and how Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDTs) can help with conflict resolution when managing data.
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2025 Key Trends: AI Workflows, Architectural Complexity, Sociotechnical Systems & Platform Products
In this end-of-year panel, the InfoQ podcast hosts reflect on AI’s impact on software delivery, the growing importance of sociotechnical systems, evolving cloud realities, and what 2026 may bring.
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Platform Engineering for AI: Scaling Agents and MCP at LinkedIn
QCon AI New York Chair Wes Reisz talks with LinkedIn’s Karthik Ramgopal and Prince Valluri about enabling AI agents at enterprise scale. They discuss how platform teams orchestrate secure, multi-agentic systems, the role of MCP, the use of foreground and background agents, improving developer experience, and reducing toil.
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About this Podcast
Discussions on intentional corporate culture and software management approaches.
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Building a Product-First Engineering Culture in the Age of AI
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Zach Lloyd about building a product-first engineering culture, and the critical importance of developers learning to effectively use AI tools while maintaining responsibility for code quality and understanding fundamental programming principles.
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Technology Radar and the Reality of AI in Software Development
Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Rachel Laycock, Global CTO of Thoughtworks, about how the company's Technology Radar process captures technology trends around the globe. She is sceptical of the current AI efficiency hype, emphasizing that real value of generative AI tools lies in solving complex problems like legacy code comprehension rather than just writing code faster.
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Achieving Sustainable Mental Peace in Software Engineering with Help from Generative AI
Shane Hastie spoke to John Gesimondo about how to leverage generative AI tools to support sustainable mental peace and productivity in the complex, interruption-prone world of software engineering by developing a practical framework that addresses emotional recovery, overcoming being stuck, structured planning and communication, maximizing flow, and fostering divergent thinking.
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Adam Sandman on Generative AI and the Future of Software Testing
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Sandman about how generative AI is transforming software development and testing by automating mundane tasks, enabling faster prototyping, and collapsing traditional roles into broader generalist positions, while also highlighting challenges like increased defects and ethical concerns.
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Claire Vo on Building High-Performing, Customer-Centric Teams in the Age of AI
In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Claire Vo, Chief Product and Technology Officer at LaunchDarkly, about building high-performing, customer-centric teams, fostering a culture of experimentation, and preparing for the future of AI-driven software development.
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