InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Maximizing Success with Limited Time, Resources, and Energy: Lessons from Startup Engineering
David Gudeman shares high-velocity startup architecture strategies, explaining how to leverage Firebase, GCP, and Cloud Run to ship fast, eliminate state complexity, and scale without devops overhead.
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The Agent Harness: Control Planes, Invariants, and Approval Boundaries for Production AI Agents
OpenAI’s Vinoth Govindarajan explains how to build reliable AI agent harnesses in production, focusing on state ownership, mutation ordering, scoped authority, and user-visible proof of action.
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Context Engineering at LinkedIn: How We Built an Organizational Context Layer for AI Agents with MCP
Ajay Prakash shares how LinkedIn built Contextual Agent Playbooks and Tools to give AI coding agents internal stack context, automating 600+ workflows and raising productivity 20%.
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Complexity and Creativity in Software Engineering
Phillip Mortimer explains why all code is now write-only in the AI era, detailing how software leaders must shift focus from line-by-line PR reviews to detailed tests and self-healing architecture.
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When Incidents Refuse to End
Vanessa Huerta Granda discusses how long-running incidents reveal critical technical realities, organizational fragility, and human dynamics, offering strategies for long-term resilience.
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Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review
Sarah Deitke shares how Duolingo scales AI adoption through engineering literacy programs and demonstrates how AI-driven code reviews reduced pull request merge times from 18 to 12 hours.
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Lead without a Ladder: How I Climbed into Engineering Leadership
Pauline Jepp discusses applying systems thinking, swarm behaviors, and rock-climbing principles to foster team autonomy, manage domain context, and navigate tech leadership.
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Decision Models in Agentic Architectures: from Production to Agent Skills
Alex Porcelli explains how combining deterministic DMN decision models with agentic AI resolves enterprise AI challenges around accountability, rule governance, and non-deterministic logic.
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From Retrieval to Reasoning: Building Production-Ready Agentic AI Systems with Knowledge Graphs
Cassie Shum shares lessons learned on using knowledge graphs as the foundation for agentic software systems, covering 4 key architectural patterns to optimize context, provenance, and team efficiency.
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How to Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not to
Ross McFarlane and Kevin Holditch explain how Form3 engineered a triple active multi-cloud architecture across AWS, GCP, and Azure to deliver ultra-resilient, regulatory-compliant payment systems.
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Accelerating Performance by Incrementally Integrating Rust into Existing Codebase
Lily Mara explains how engineering teams can achieve 100x function-level speedups and lower infrastructure costs by using PyO3 to incrementally refactor critical Python codebases into Rust.
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Fixing the AI Infra Scale Problem by Stuffing 1M Sandboxes in a Single Server
Felipe Huici discusses scaling microVM sandboxes for AI workloads, explaining how millisecond cold boots, high density, and stateful scale-to-zero achieve efficient, secure cloud isolation.