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Presenters Ashley Nutter Source ProductCon London 2026 Designing Smarter AI Workflows: The Strategic Power of Human-in-the-Loop 🚀 Hey tech enthusiasts! Ever feel like AI is moving at lightning speed, but sometimes leaves us scratching our heads about how it makes its decisions? Ashley Nutter, a seasoned product leader at CNN, recently shed some light on this fascinating challenge, especially when it comes to designing “agentic workflows” – AI systems where an agent makes decisions or takes actions. ...

Presenters Carlos González de Villaumbrosia Source ProductCon London 2026 🚀 Beyond the Hype: Building the AI-Native Product Operating Model Since we started ProductCon in 2019, the world of software has transformed. But today, we find ourselves in a startling AI Paradox. On one hand, the “SaaS-pocalypse” wiped out $1 trillion in market value in a single week as investors feared AI agents would displace giants like Salesforce and Adobe. On the other hand, AI companies like XAI, Anthropic, and OpenAI are seeing valuations skyrocket toward the $800 billion mark. ...

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. ...

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! ...

Presenters Abhishek Agrawal Madhav Bissa Source grpConf India 2025 Unlocking gRPC’s Secrets: Your Ultimate Guide to Observability! 🚀 Ever felt like you’re flying blind when your gRPC applications hit a snag? You’re not alone! Understanding the inner workings of distributed systems, especially those powered by gRPC, can feel like trying to solve a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. But what if you could have X-ray vision into every request, every connection, and every potential bottleneck? ...