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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

Featured in Architecture & Design

Lessons & Best Practices from Leading the Serverless First Journey at CapitalOne

George Mao explains Capital One's serverless-first approach, driven by efficiency and regulatory needs. He shares valuable lessons on CI/CD, concurrency, and cost management, along with actionable best practices for development (SDKs, runtimes), deployment (packaging, ARM), and observability for senior software developers and architects.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

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

Featured in Culture & Methods

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 The Web Platform as a Limitless Pool of Innovation, with Andreas Gal

The Web Platform as a Limitless Pool of Innovation, with Andreas Gal

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Andreas is the Director of Research at Mozilla, leading a team of researchers and engineers working on various areas of the web stack. Previously, he worked as a project scientist at the University of California, Irvine, working in the Secure Systems and Languages Laboratory of Professor Michael Franz. His background is in secure systems, type-safe languages, dynamic compilation, and VMs.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community.QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

Feb 03, 2012

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