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As QCon San Francisco (Nov 17-21, 2025) approaches, the conference's program committee and track hosts are sharing their top picks from this year's lineup. Their selections span a wide range of topics, from AI-accelerated development and platform ...

Teena Idnani explains how to architect and build resilient event-driven distributed systems in a multi-cloud reality. Using a fictional bank's migration journey, she shares practical, code-level solutions for overcoming major challenges: managing ...

GitHub is introducing a hybrid post-quantum secure key exchange algorithm for SSH access when interacting with Git over SSH.

React 19.2 introduces new APIs and performance improvements focused on better UI control and server rendering. Key additions include the new Activity component for managing UI states without losing component state, and the useEffectEvent hook, which ...

Software architecture is tough because it blends coding, math, and business systems. Due to surprises, architectures tend to become irrelevant over time, Barry O'Reilly said. He presented residuality theory, where he suggested stressing naive ...

Thinking Machines has released Tinker, an API for fine-tuning open-weight language models. The service is designed to reduce infrastructure overhead for developers, providing managed scheduling, GPU allocation, and checkpoint handling. By abstracting ...

Claude Sonnet 4.5 has emerged as the best-performing model in 'risky tasks', narrowly edging out GPT-5 in early evaluations by Petri --- Anthropic's new open-source AI auditing tool.

Researchers from DeepMind have described a new approach for teaching intelligent agents to solve complex, long-term tasks by training them exclusively on video footage rather than through direct interaction with the environment. Their new agent, ...

Uber has updated its CacheFront architecture to handle over 150 million reads per second. The new design improves consistency and reduces stale reads by integrating Flux for MySQL binlog tailing, enhancing the storage engine, and introducing Cache .. ...

Christina Yakomin shares Vanguard's SRE transformation: from quarterly testing of monoliths to a mature DevOps model with continuous delivery. She explains the SRE coaching hub, self-service tools, and advanced techniques like request-rate ...