Handling AI-Generated Code: Challenges & Best Practices • Roman Zhukov & Damian Brady

Presenters Roman Zhukov Damian Brady Source GOTO podcast AI-Assisted Coding: Amplifier, Not Replacement 🚀 The world of software development is buzzing with the advent of AI-generated code. While the hype is real, the reality is more nuanced. We’re not talking about replacing developers wholesale, but rather about amplifying their capabilities. This shift is transforming developer workflows, but it’s crucial to understand the challenges, best practices, and the evolving roles within our tech landscape. ...

February 10, 2026 · 6 min

Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

Presenters Thomas Betts Madelyn Olson Source InfoQ podcast From Redis to Valkey: Engineering the Future of In-Memory Data 🚀 In the fast-moving world of software architecture, few events trigger as much immediate action as a major licensing shift. When Redis moved away from its open-source roots in March 2024, the community didn’t just complain—they built. Thomas Betts recently sat down with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and Principal Engineer at AWS, to discuss how a dedicated group of engineers birthed a new industry standard in just eight days. Beyond the drama of the fork lies a story of deep technical refinement, where modernizing a 2009-era hashmap design led to staggering memory savings and performance gains. ...

February 9, 2026 · 5 min

CI/CD Evolution: From Pipelines to AI-Powered DevOps • Olaf Molenveld & Julian Wood

Presenters Olaf Molenveld Julian Wood Source GOTO podcast 🚀 The Last Mile: Why Your CI/CD Pipeline is the Real Product In the world of software development, writing code has never been easier. With AI assistants and vibe coding becoming the norm, developers can spin up scripts in minutes. But as Julian Wood and Olaf Molenveld (Technology Advisor at CircleCI) discussed in a recent episode of GoTo Unscripted, writing code is only half the battle. If you can’t get that software in front of a customer safely and securely, it’s effectively useless. ...

February 6, 2026 · 5 min

Dial Once, Scale Infinitely: Production-Ready gRPC Without the Mess - Aparna Prabhu & Saubhik Singh

Presenters Aparna Prabhu Saubhik Singh Source grpConf India 2025 From Vanilla gRPC to DRPC: Scaling Microservices at DigitalOcean 🚀 Ever wondered how cloud giants handle the immense complexity of running thousands of services, all while keeping things lightning-fast and reliable? Today, we’re diving deep into the world of gRPC and how DigitalOcean has not only adopted it but evolved it into their own robust solution, DRPC. Get ready for a journey from the basics of remote procedure calls to the nitty-gritty of their custom platform! ...

February 4, 2026 · 5 min

Keynote: Overview of gRPC - Sreenithi Sridharan, Google

Presenters Sreenithi Sridharan Source grpConf India 2025 Demystifying gRPC: Your High-Speed Highway for Distributed Applications 🚀 Welcome to a fascinating journey into the heart of gRPC, the powerful framework that’s redefining how our applications communicate! If you’re building modern, distributed systems, you’ve likely heard the buzz around gRPC. Today, we’re cutting through the complexity to give you a clear, exciting look at its core, its lifecycle, and the advanced features that make it an industry favorite. ...

February 4, 2026 · 6 min