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At QCon London 2025, Johnson Matthey's Vulnerability Manager, Celine Pypaert, discussed managing open-source dependency risks while maintaining momentum in innovation. She described a three-part blueprint for handling the security challenges that ...

Apache Kafka 4.0 ushers in a transformative era by adopting KRaft mode, eliminating the need for ZooKeeper, streamlining architecture, and enhancing scalability. With a next-gen consumer group protocol for improved performance and early access to ...

Jennifer Davis discusses practical approaches for senior software developers and engineering leaders to navigate organizational change and build high-performing teams. She explains the importance of functional leadership, enabling healthy conflict, . ...

Kevin Bowman of Kraken Technology unveiled how serverless cloud solutions are revolutionizing the UK's power grid management amid a 40% surge in renewable energy. By leveraging intelligent control systems, battery storage and microservices, Kraken .. ...

AMD has released Gaia, an open-source project allowing developers to run large language models (LLMs) locally on Windows machines with AMD hardware acceleration. The framework supports retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and includes tools for ...

Meta has officially released the first models in its new Llama 4 family--Scout and Maverick--marking a step forward in its open-weight large language model ecosystem. Designed with a native multimodal architecture and a mixture-of-experts (MoE) ...

Fabien Deshayes spoke on how Monzo has created and optimised their developer experience teams in a talk at QCon London 2025. Deshayes outlined some techniques for building an effective Developer Experience platform, focusing on three key aspects: ...

Diff Authoring Time (DAT). DAT is a new metric developed by engineers at Meta to measure the duration required for developers to submit changes, known as "diffs," to the codebase. By tracking the time from the initiation of a code change to its ...

Anil Rajput and Rema Hariharan discuss the crucial role of CPU architecture in optimizing Large Language Model (LLM), specifically Llama, performance. They explain hardware-software synchronization for TCO reduction and latency improvements. Learn .. ...

In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Vlad Khononov about balancing coupling in software design, the subject of his recent book. They discuss how coupling is necessary for a system to function, but has to be balanced to allow the system to evolve ...