InfoQ - AI, ML & Data Engineering - Presentations

Presentation: The Next Generation of AI Products

Hilary Mason — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:23:00 GMT

Hilary Mason shares her journey from academia to building AI products at scale. She discusses the shift from discrete engineering to probabilistic mindsets, explaining why managing "human considerations" is the hardest part of the stack. She explains the "existential crisis" for engineers, arguing that great architecture today is about context management, systems thinking, and good taste.

By Hilary Mason

Presentation: Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing

Jimmy Morzaria — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:52:00 GMT

Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to perform horizontal sharding, version upgrades, and multi-tenant migrations - all while maintaining the strict consistency required for global commerce.

By Jimmy Morzaria

Presentation: Agents, Architecture, & Amnesia: Becoming AI-Native Without Losing Our Minds

Tracy Bannon — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:15:00 GMT

Tracy Bannon shares a cautionary tale of "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" to illustrate the risks of unbridled AI autonomy. She discusses the shift from bots to autonomous agents, explaining how reckless speed leads to "Architectural Amnesia." She provides a concrete framework for "Minimum Viable Governance," focusing on identity, delegation, and ADRs to manage debt at machine speed across the SDLC.

By Tracy Bannon

Presentation: AI-Powered SRE for Autonomous Incident Response

Rohit Dhawan, Pavan Madduri, Alina Astapovich, Goutham Rao, Renato Losio — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:21:00 GMT

The presenters discuss incident response, how AI-enhanced SRE platforms connect signals from logs, metrics, traces, and historical incidents to enable autonomous decisions.

By Rohit Dhawan, Pavan Madduri, Alina Astapovich, Goutham Rao, Renato Losio

Presentation: Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI Content are Taking over the Internet

Shuman Ghosemajumder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:55:00 GMT

Shuman Ghosemajumder explains how generative AI has transformed from a creative curiosity into a high-scale tool for disinformation and fraud. He shares insights on "Disinformation Automation," the fallacy of CAPTCHA in an AI world, and why engineering leaders must adopt zero-trust "cyber fusion" strategies to defend against automated attacks that mimic human behavior with chilling accuracy.

By Shuman Ghosemajumder

Presentation: Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash

Sudeep Das, Pradeep Muthukrishnan — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:35:00 GMT

Sudeep Das and Pradeep Muthukrishnan explain the shift from static merchandising to dynamic, moment-aware personalization at DoorDash. They share how LLMs generate natural-language "consumer profiles" and content blueprints, while traditional deep learning handles last-mile ranking. This hybrid approach allows the platform to adapt to short-lived user intent and massive catalog abundance.

By Sudeep Das, Pradeep Muthukrishnan