InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Managing Staff+ Engineers: Opportunities and Challenges
Adam Schirmacher discusses the “transparent umbrella” strategy, treating staff+ engineers like senior engineers, handling mismatched IQ/EQ, and leading without authority vs. lending authority.
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Harnessing Exotic Hardware: Charting the Future of JVM Performance
Monica Beckwith discusses the world of the JVM and its evolving relationship with exotic hardware. She presents a hypothetical scenario where GPU optimization plays a pivotal role.
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An Incident Story: Tips for How Staff+ Engineers Can Impact Incidents
Erin Doyle discusses her experience with a critical 3-day-long incident and how she missed a key opportunity to help prevent the incident and how to build a culture to prevent similar situations.
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Developer Experience in the Age of Generative AI
The panelists discuss challenges developers face that interrupt the development flow, slow things down, the tools available to help, and how to use AI-powered programming assistants to help.
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Pulumi Adventures: How Python Empowered My Infrastructure beyond YAML
Adora Nwodo discusses her journey from backend software engineering into the realm of DevOps, exploring how Pulumi became the pivotal tool that empowered her transition.
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Risk and Failure on the Path to Staff Engineer
Caleb Hyde discusses their career progression and regressions, as well the context they used to figure out what to work on and whom to work with, distilling a framework to utilize in one’s own work.
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Delivering Millions of Notifications within Seconds During the Super Bowl
Zhen Zhou discusses how they built/test an on-demand notification system, what it takes to manage cloud resources/site-reliability at the same time, and how to mitigate reliability issues.
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Breaking the Ceiling: Scaling Your Impact at the Staff-Plus Level
Thiago Ghisi discusses what defines the staff-plus level, expectations across companies, approaches for high-performing staff-plus engineers, strategies for scaling, and examples of "Staff Projects".
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Generative Search: Practical Advice for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)
Sam Partee discusses Vector embeddings in LLMs, a tool capable of capturing the essence of unstructured data used by LLMs to gain access to a wealth of contextually relevant knowledge.
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Strangler Things: How to De-risk Legacy Code Migrations
Shawna Martell discusses a case study in which they disentangled systems with no customer impact and zero downtime, how they prioritize feature migration, tooling, and backwards compatibility.
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Building a Culture of Continuous Experimentation
Sarah Aslanifar discusses leveraging continuous learning to drive efficiency, eliminate waste, and significantly improve product outcomes, covering the crucial role of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).
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Being a Responsible Developer in the Age of AI Hype
Justin Sheehy discusses the dramatic developments in some areas of artificial intelligence and the need for the responsible use of AI systems.
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