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Presentation: Building GenAI Platform at DoorDash

Siddharth Kodwani, Swaroop Chitlur — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Swaroop Chitlur and Sidd Kodwani share DoorDash’s journey building an internal GenAI platform. They discuss core architectural bets, transitioning from vendor-first setups to open-weights models, navigating LLM and agent gateways, and balancing accuracy, latency, and cost for over 5,000 internal users.

By Siddharth Kodwani, Swaroop Chitlur

Presentation: Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Ian Cooper — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Ian Cooper discusses managing asynchronous APIs in event-driven architectures at scale. He explains the "ABCs" of messaging (Address, Binding, Contract) and shares how to tackle discovery, governance, and provisioning using AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, schema registries, and automated CI/CD infrastructure pipelines based on real-world engineering practices at Just Eat Takeaway.

By Ian Cooper

Presentation: Beyond Observability: Evolving Production Operations in the Age of AI

Michael Hausenblas, Sujana Sooreddy, Noam Levi, Renato Losio — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:30:00 GMT

The panelists discuss how production operations are evolving with AI, turning operational data into actionable insights for incident response. They explain how automation and new architectural practices help engineering teams build more understandable systems, while exploring how AI reshapes software delivery and changes the historically deterministic nature of production applications.

By Michael Hausenblas, Sujana Sooreddy, Noam Levi, Renato Losio

Presentation: Keeping the Mainline Green across Diverse Language Monorepos

Dhruva Juloori — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 09:33:00 GMT

Dhruva Juloori discusses how Uber maintains green mainlines across massive monorepos handling 65,000+ monthly changes. He explains how SubmitQueue uses binary speculation trees, conflict analysis, and machine learning models to predict build success and execution times. Juloori shares how bypassing large diffs slashed CI resource usage by 53% while accelerating PR landing times by 37%.

By Dhruva Juloori

Presentation: Context is the New Code

Patrick Debois — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares how treating context like code - complete with testing, CI/CD, package managers, and security scanning - enables engineering leaders to reliably scale AI coding agents, maintain control over non-deterministic outputs, and build long-term organizational knowledge.

By Patrick Debois

Presentation: From Staff Platform Engineer to a16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Gonzalo Maldonado — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:14:00 GMT

Gonzalo Maldonado explains how technical leaders can translate engineering skills into startup success using their "VC Abstraction Layer Knowledge" (VALK). They share hard-won lessons on finding product-market fit, structuring pitches like technical docs, avoiding co-founder drama, and evaluating internal platforms as commercial ventures in a post-ZIRP environment.

By Gonzalo Maldonado

Podcast: The AI Revolution Fails without Psychological Safety for Developers: a Conversation with Erin Doyle

Erin Doyle — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Erin Doyle about how artificial intelligence tools are transforming the software development process, and how they are affecting software engineers. Architecture skills are now critical because engineers need to understand how to build systems and handle the constraints and associated ambiguity in the requirements.

By Erin Doyle

Presentation: From Consumers to Builders: Turning 200 of our Team into Agent Creators in Two Weeks

Ben Maraney — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Ben Maraney shares how Forter demystified AI agent creation for technical and non-technical staff. He discusses leveraging custom MCP servers, combining no-code and code-based platforms, sidestepping complex RAG setups, and aligning security and legal teams to accelerate internal agent adoption across R&D.

By Ben Maraney

Presentation: Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design

Mallika Rao — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Mallika Rao explains that the true complexity of adaptive recommendation systems lies outside model architecture. She discusses how real-time feedback loops, retrieval freshness, multi-stage orchestration, and end-to-end latency budgeting enable systems to continuously learn and evolve in production under real-world operational constraints like latency, cost, and observability.

By Mallika Rao

Podcast: The Future of AI: from Enterprise Adoption to Open Source Sovereignty

Meryem Arik, Clara Higuera Cabañes, Jeff Smith — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this episode, Meryem Arik, Clara Higuera Cabañes, and Jeff Smith demystify the current state of AI in the enterprise. The discussion navigates the "industrial revolution" moment in AI adoption, exploring why companies are rushing toward these technologies to maintain competitive advantages while grappling with reliability, ethical considerations, and the evolving role of software engineering.

By Meryem Arik, Clara Higuera Cabañes, Jeff Smith

Presentation: Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Christine Lemmer-Webber, David Thompson — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Christine Lemmer-Webber and David Thompson explain how Spritely's architecture solves core decentralization challenges. They share insights on capability-based access control with Goblins, actor-model communication via OCapN, and petname systems. Discover how Spritely leverages Scheme, WebAssembly (Hoot), and local-first CRDTs to build secure, peer-to-peer applications without central servers.

By Christine Lemmer-Webber, David Thompson