Keynote: What's New in gRPC? - Ashish Srivastava, Google

Presenters Ashish Srivastava Source grpConf India 2025 🚀 The Future of gRPC: AI, Rust, and the Proxyless Revolution Welcome to the dawn of a new era for gRPC. At the first-ever gRPC Conf, Ashish Srivastava, Engineering Manager at Google, unveiled a roadmap that transforms gRPC from a high-performance RPC framework into the backbone of the modern cloud-native and AI-driven world. The strategy rests on three pillars: Modernization: Evolving the core to align with cloud-native builds, including gRPC Rust and MCP transport. Service Mesh & XDS: Advancing a world of proxyless service meshes where discovery, load balancing, and security are policy-driven. Observability: Investing in the philosophy that you cannot improve what you cannot see through advanced metrics and tracing. 🤖 gRPC: The Heart of the AI Ecosystem The AI landscape is exploding, and gRPC sits right at the intersection. Two protocols have recently dominated the conversation: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol. ...

February 4, 2026 · 5 min

Peeking Under the Hood: Observability of Kubernetes gRPC Internals - A. Chaudhuri & S. Agrawalla

Presenters Abhijeet Chaudhuri Sanskar Agrawalla Source grpConf India 2025 🚀 Unmasking Kubernetes’ Hidden Conversations: Tracing gRPC for Crystal Clear Visibility Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever wonder what truly goes on under the hood of your Kubernetes cluster? We’re Abhijeet Chaudhuri and Sanskar Agrawalla, Site Reliability Engineers at Quatic AI (and formerly DevOps Engineers at Robq), and we’re here to pull back the curtain on one of Kubernetes’ most mysterious layers: its internal gRPC communications. ...

February 4, 2026 · 7 min

Quarkus in Action • Martin Stefanko, Jan Martiska & Holly Cummins

Presenters Martin Štefanko Jan Martiška Holly Cummins Source GOTO podcast Quarkus in Action: Unlocking Java’s Supersonic Superpower with Its Creators! 🚀💡 Welcome, fellow tech enthusiasts! Ever wonder what it takes to write a groundbreaking tech book, especially when the technology itself is evolving at warp speed? Today, we’re diving into the fascinating world of Quarkus, the beloved “supersonic subatomic Java” framework, and the journey behind the brilliant book, “Quarkus in Action.” We sat down with authors Martin Štefanko and Jan Martiška, alongside host Holly Cummins, to uncover the magic, the challenges, and the sheer joy of creating a resource for developers aiming to master Quarkus. ...

February 3, 2026 · 7 min

Developers Can Improve the ESG Aspects of Software By Tackling Early Ethical Debt

Presenters Erica Pisani Source InfoQ podcast Beyond the Hype: How Performance, Sustainability, and Ethics are Redefining Software’s Future 🚀💡 QCON London is the place for senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders looking for what’s next in tech. This past March, attendees dove deep into critical topics, including architectures, engineering productivity, and applying AI in the real world. It wasn’t about fleeting trends; it was about gaining practical insights from senior practitioners to make smarter investment decisions with your time and tech resources. ...

February 2, 2026 · 7 min

State of the Art of DORA Metrics & AI Integration • Nathen Harvey & Charles Humble

Presenters Nathen Harvey Charles Humble Source GOTO podcast Generative AI: The Sixth Great Shift in Software Delivery? 🚀 The world of software development is buzzing with the arrival of Generative AI, and it’s poised to be the sixth major shift in how we build and deliver software, following in the footsteps of higher-level languages, agile, cloud, DevOps, and microservices. But as with any powerful new tool, there are always unintended consequences to consider. ...

January 30, 2026 · 7 min