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Presentation: Turning Outward: Growing From Code to Influence

Brad Grantham — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:31:00 GMT

Brad Grantham discusses how software engineers and architects can transition from individual contributors to influential technical leaders. Brad shares actionable insights on expanding skills into business and legal domains, adapting communication styles for non-technical stakeholders, moving past ego to empower teams, and navigating complex organizational dynamics to maximize engineering impact.

By Brad Grantham

Podcast: Will Agentic AI Bring Fantasia’s Sorcerer's Apprentice to Life?: A Conversation with Tracy Bannon

Tracy Bannon — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Tracy Bannon about the role of artificial intelligence in software and the attendant risks in the areas of security, software development, and society at large. While it might be reasonable to assume a certain amount of trust within a software ecosystem, the risks escalate when the boundary between two software ecosystems is crossed.

By Tracy Bannon

Presentation: From Thousands to One: Building LLM-Powered Selection Systems

Jendrik Jördening — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:06:00 GMT

Jendrik Jördening shares practical engineering strategies for integrating LLMs into production pipelines. He discusses overcoming non-determinism, restricting schemas, separating semantic text extraction from deterministic code, and validating choices using discriminator models. Learn how to structure LLMs with an MVC approach to ensure database integrity, observability, and system reliability.

By Jendrik Jördening

Presentation: From Models to Agents: Building Context-Aware Consumer AI at Scale at DoorDash

Sudeep Das — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Sudeep Das shares how DoorDash shifts from legacy one-shot predictions to an agentic recommendation platform. He discusses leveraging language-native consumer memory, RQ-VAE semantic IDs for catalog representation, and grounded search to dramatically boost relevance and conversion metrics.

By Sudeep Das

Presentation: The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering

Patrick Debois, Baruch Sadogursky — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Baruch Sadogursky and Patrick Debois discuss why coding agents fail due to bloated context windows and stuffed prompts. They explain practical context engineering fixes, including lazy-loaded skills, versioned context artifacts, externalized memory banks, and LLM-as-a-judge evals. Software architects & engineering leaders will learn how to turn raw markdown files into reliable agentic workflows.

By Patrick Debois, Baruch Sadogursky

Podcast: Founders, Friction, and Focus: Building Engineering Teams at Early-Stage Startups

David Gudeman — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Gudeman about the unique culture of early-stage startup engineering, how founder personality quirks and premature process impositions can derail teams, and how engineers can build influence and make deliberate career choices without formal power.

By David Gudeman

Presentation: Migrating Uber Eats Feeds to Webview

Nick DiStefano — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:26:00 GMT

Nick DiStefano shares how Uber Eats migrated from traditional native app screens to a native-driven, single-page WebView architecture. He explains key strategies for engineering leaders and software architects looking to bypass native release cycles, manage cross-platform state, build generic native-web message bridges, and execute large-scale UI migrations without degrading metrics.

By Nick DiStefano

Podcast: Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domains as part of our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of key topics to watch. This podcast offers a chance to hear our raw conversation and the stories shared by our expert practitioners.

By Daniel Bryant, Matt Saunders, Shweta Vohra, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Mark Silvester, Renato Losio

Presentation: Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI

David Chisnall — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

David Chisnall discusses how the CHERI hardware architecture redefines pointer safety to solve isolation and sharing challenges. He explains how CHERI enables spatial and temporal memory safety for C/C++, scales down to microcontrollers with CHERIoT, and replaces costly OS-level RPC mechanisms with lightweight, auditable compartmentalization - all without requiring massive codebase rewrites.

By David Chisnall

Presentation: Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide

Meryem Arik — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:05:00 GMT

Meryem Arik discusses strategies for designing low-cost LLM inference architectures for high-volume, non-real-time workloads. She explains how software architects and engineering leaders can achieve order-of-magnitude cost reductions by making critical trade-offs across hardware, inference runtimes, speculative decoding, and smart queue reordering.

By Meryem Arik

Presentation: Leveraging Adversary Emulation for GenAI Red Teaming

Kennedy Torkura — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:32:00 GMT

Kennedy Torkura discusses practical GenAI red teaming techniques to safeguard LLMs and knowledge bases against security threats like data poisoning and LLMjacking on AWS. He explains how engineering leaders and architects can bridge traditional cloud security with MITRE ATLAS frameworks to proactively identify vulnerabilities, implement guardrails, and secure production AI applications.

By Kennedy Torkura

Presentation: Keeping ChatGPT Fast as AI Development Accelerates

Martin Spier — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Martin Spier explains how agentic workflows dramatically increase code change volume at OpenAI. He discusses the hidden systemic performance costs of rapid shipping beyond GPUs, and shares how deploying always-on AI agents automates profiling, regression detection, and continuous optimization to maintain product speed and scalability at massive global scale.

By Martin Spier