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Presentation: The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect

Ruth Linehan — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:20:00 GMT

Ruth Linehan explains how migrating high-performance caching services from Kotlin to Rust shattered internal preconceptions around delivery velocity and engineering overhead. She discusses the ergonomics of the Rust borrow checker, shares how compile-time safety shortens the developer feedback loop, and profiles how tools like Criterion and flamegraphs optimize concurrent code paths.

By Ruth Linehan

Presentation: Postgres for Production Agents: Your Relational Foundation for Enterprise AI

Gwen Shapira — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:57:00 GMT

Gwen Shapira shares how teams are scaling AI features using PostgreSQL for mission-critical apps. She explains how to leverage Postgres's multi-modal capabilities - including JSONB parsing and high-recall HNSW vector indexing - to deliver deterministic and semantic context to LLMs. She also discusses vector quantization to speed up queries by 4x and strategies for managing agentic memory.

By Gwen Shapira

Presentation: Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends

Luca Mezzalira — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:42:00 GMT

Luca Mezzalira shares proven learnings from guiding hundreds of teams through the migration from monolithic web applications to distributed frontend architectures. He explains the core architectural difference between components and micro-frontends, outlines a 6-step decision framework spanning client vs. server rendering, and discusses how to utilize edge compute for safe, iterative rollouts.

By Luca Mezzalira

Presentation: Road to Compliance: Will Your Internal Users Hate Your Platform Team?

Davide de Paolis — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:20:00 GMT

Davide de Paolis discusses the realities of rolling out cloud infrastructure compliance without fracturing developer relations. Drawing from a real-world platform team reboot at Sevdesk, he explains how to implement "minimum viable governance" on AWS, utilize event-driven Slack alerting to automate policy feedback, and shift from rigid enforcement to high-empathy, data-driven collaboration.

By Davide de Paolis

Presentation: Chaos Engineering GPU Clusters

Bryan Oliver — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:42:00 GMT

Bryan Oliver discusses the frontier of AI infrastructure: chaos engineering for large-scale GPU clusters. He shares how engineering leaders can handle complex topologies, network protocols like RDMA, and NUMA misalignments. Discover seven practical fault-injection strategies to maximize multi-million dollar hardware efficiency and build robust observability loops.

By Bryan Oliver