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Presenters Jaromir Hamala Source InfoQ Unlocking Peak Performance: A Deep Dive into QuestDB, Java, and the Tinker’s Mindset with Jaromir Hamala 🚀💡 Are you navigating the tricky waters of moving AI from a proof-of-concept to reliable production? You are absolutely not alone! Many engineering teams face this exact challenge. Senior engineers and architects at events like QCon AI Boston are already sharing how they’ve made that shift, revealing scaling patterns, lessons learned, and what they’d do differently. But what if the core of your high-performance system is built on a technology many still consider “slow”? ...

Presenters Michael Stiefel Matthew Liste Source InfoQ The Art of the Unsung Hero: Navigating the Complex World of Systems Engineering 🛠️✨ In the fast-paced world of technology, we often celebrate the flashy new apps and groundbreaking software. But what about the bedrock upon which all of this is built? The complex, often invisible, systems that keep everything running smoothly? This is the domain of the systems engineer, a role that Matthew Liss, with over 30 years of experience at giants like American Express, JP Morgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs, deeply understands. In a recent conversation on the Architects podcast, Matthew shared his unique perspective on what it means to be a systems engineer, the challenges they face, and the profound satisfaction derived from building resilient and scalable platforms. ...

Presenters Viktor Peterson Source InfoQ The S-bomb Revolution: Why Your Software Ingredients Matter More Than Ever 🚀🌐 In the world of mobile application security, good enough is simply a vulnerability. Viktor Peterson, a seasoned entrepreneur and co-chair of a CISA working group, recently sat down with Olimpio Pope to discuss the shifting landscape of Software Bill of Materials (S-bombs). What started as a niche security practice is rapidly becoming the global standard for software transparency. ...

Presenters Thomas Betts Adi Polak Source InfoQ Beyond Prompt Engineering: Mastering Context Engineering for AI at Scale 🚀 In the rapidly evolving landscape of AI-driven development, the buzzword prompt engineering is starting to feel a bit like yesterday’s news. As we move from simple chatbot interactions to complex, agentic workflows, the real secret sauce is context engineering. I sat down with Adi Polak, Director at Confluent and author of Scaling Machine Learning with Spark, to discuss how we can move beyond basic prompting to build sophisticated, stateful AI systems that actually get work done. ...