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Development

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Quantum Shift: Rewiring the Tech Landscape

Teena Idnani explains the core concepts of quantum computing, its transformative potential across industries (pharmaceuticals, finance, etc.), and the current state of quantum technology. She addresses the threats (breaking RSA encryption) and opportunities, offering practical guidance on how software developers, architects, and engineering leaders can prepare for the coming quantum revolution.

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Architecture & Design

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Changing the Model: Why and How We Re-Architected Slack

Ian Hoffman discusses Slack's architectural evolution from workspace-centric to Unified Grid. He explains scaling challenges & Enterprise Grid complexities, and shares lessons learned during this significant architectural shift, drawing insightful parallels to the history of astronomy and emphasizing the importance of questioning foundational assumptions in software development.

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AI Infrastructure

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From "Simple" Fine-Tuning to Your Own Mixture of Expert Models Using Open-Source Models

Sebastiano Galazzo discusses the practicalities of creating custom LLMs and shares real-world tips and common mistakes. Learn cost-effective fine-tuning (LoRA), powerful model merging ("Franken models"), Mixture of Experts, multimodal capabilities & key performance optimizations (pruning, quantization) for maximum value and relevance to senior software developers and engineering leaders.

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Culture & Methods

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Taming Flaky Tests: Trisha Gee on Developer Productivity and Testing Best Practices

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke with Trisha Gee about the challenges and importance of addressing flaky tests, their impact on developer productivity and morale, best practices for testing, and broader concepts of measuring and improving developer productivity.

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DevOps

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Implement the EU Cyber Resilience Act's Requirements to Strengthen Your Software Project

Eddie Knight, OSPO lead at Sonatype, discusses how the EU Cyber Resilience Act can help with improving your software project’s security and in the same time to slow down the alarming acceleration of software supply chain attacks.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Jon Brisbin on Virtualization and Private Clouds

Jon Brisbin on Virtualization and Private Clouds

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Jon Brisbin works for NPC International, Inc and. is responsible for architecting and implementing the computing infrastructure required for browser-based applications for the world's largest Pizza Hut franchisee. He maintains the farm of Ubuntu Linux virtual machines that comprise NPC's private cloud.

About the conference

SpringOne 2GX is a collocated event covering the entire Spring ecosystem and Groovy/Grails technologies. SpringOne 2GX is a one-of-a-kind conference for application developers, solution architects, web operations and IT teams who develop, deploy and manage business applications. This is the most important Java event of 2010, especially for anyone using Spring technologies, Groovy & Grails, or Tomcat. Whether you're building and running mission-critical business applications or designing the next killer cloud application, SpringOne 2GX will keep you up to date with the latest enterprise technology.

Jan 06, 2011

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