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Presenters Jaromir Hamala Source InfoQ podcast 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 Peter Gostev Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 Beyond the Hype: What Large Language Models Still Struggle With 🤯 We’re constantly bombarded with dazzling charts showing the relentless upward march of AI capabilities. Every new model release feels like a giant leap towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), leaving us in a state of awe and perhaps a little anxiety. But are we being too optimistic? Peter Gostev, in a recent talk, dives into the less glamorous side of LLMs, exploring what they don’t do well and why that matters. ...

Presenters Andrew Espira Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 🚀 Mastering the Chaos: Bringing SRE Principles to AI Agent Orchestration The AI revolution is moving fast, and for many engineering teams, the infrastructure is quickly becoming a wild west. Andrew Espira, a founding engineer at Castro, recently shared how his team tackled the daunting complexity of managing hundreds of AI agents across dozens of environments. When you have agents spinning up sub-agents, executing thousands of parallel tasks, and calling various services, traditional monitoring simply falls short. Enter Agency—a command-line interface (CLI) tool designed to bring order, visibility, and SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) rigor to your agentic workflows. ...

Presenters Murtuza J Merchant Source Conf42 Cloud 2026 Stablecoins: The Cloud-Native Payment Infrastructure Revolution 🚀 Are you tired of the slow, expensive, and clunky traditional payment systems? Imagine sending money from London to Jakarta not in two to five business days with fees between $20 and $40, but in under 5 seconds for less than a tenth of a cent. This isn’t a futuristic dream; it’s the reality stablecoins offer today, and they’re rapidly becoming the first cloud-native payment infrastructure. ...

Presenters Matt Pocock Source AI Engineer Europe 2026 🚀 Why Software Fundamentals are Your Superpower in the Age of AI Do you feel like your hard-earned engineering skills are losing their value in a world dominated by LLMs? Matt Pocock has a comforting, yet provocative message for you: software fundamentals matter now more than they ever have. While many believe we are entering a specs-to-code era where we can simply ignore the implementation, the reality is much messier. If you treat code as a disposable byproduct, you fall into the trap of vibe coding. You run the compiler, get garbage, run it again, and get even worse garbage. ...