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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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[Video Podcast] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and a Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. The conversation covers how Valkey started as an open source fork of Redis and how the maintainers optimized the memory usage and improved throughput.

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AI Infrastructure

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Building LLMs in Resource-Constrained Environments: A Hands-On Perspective

In this article, the author argues that infrastructure and compute limitations can drive innovation. It demonstrates how smaller, efficient models, synthetic data generation, and disciplined engineering enable the creation of impactful LLM-based AI systems despite severe resource constraints.

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Culture & Methods

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Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons from Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi discusses the strategic evolution required to lead 100+ engineers without breaking the organization. He explains his "Three Levels of Impact" framework and shares practical lessons on speeding up decision-making, cultivating leadership teams, and building organizational resilience. Learn why he views reorgs as a continuous deployment feature rather than a one-time traumatic event.

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DevOps

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From Alert Fatigue to Agent-Assisted Intelligent Observability

As systems grow, observability becomes harder to maintain and incidents harder to diagnose. Agentic observability layers AI on existing tools, starting in read-only mode to detect anomalies and summarize issues. Over time, agents add context, correlate signals, and automate low-risk tasks. This approach frees engineers to focus on analysis and judgment.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Jeff Patton on learning the ‘game’ of Agility and building the right thing

Jeff Patton on learning the ‘game’ of Agility and building the right thing

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Author of ‘User Story Mapping’, Jeff Patton is a highly respected expert and popular conference speaker who specialises in the application of user experience design practice to improve Agile requirements, planning, and ultimately product delivery. Jeff has focused on Agile approaches since working on an early Extreme Programming team in 2000.

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Every day, Agile practitioners and thought leaders are defining and refining new and existing practices that bring Agile’s values and principles to our world of work, play and service. Agile2014 reinforces our understanding of proven methods and illuminates some of the exciting new innovations that represent the future of Agile.

Oct 10, 2014

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