Culture & Methods

Stripe Engineers Deploy Minions, Autonomous Agents Producing Thousands of Pull Requests Weekly

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Engineers at Stripe have developed Minions, autonomous coding agents capable of completing software development tasks end-to-end from a single instruction. The system integrates large language models (LLMs) with internal developer tooling to generate production-ready pull requests with minimal human intervention. Stripe engineers reported that Minions now produce over 1,300 pull requests per week, up from … Read more

QCon London 2026: Shipping Constantly with Humans and Beyond at Monzo

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At QCon London 2026, Suhail Patel, a principal engineer at Monzo who leads the bank’s platform group, described how the bank has built a developer platform capable of shipping hundreds of changes to production every day.  Monzo operates on a microservices architecture of over 3,000 services, all written in a uniform style using a bootstrap … Read more

Getting Feedback from Test-Driven Development and Testing in Production

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Teams rely on strong unit and integration tests instead of end-to-end tests. Using TDD, pair programming, and good design, they ship small changes often, test in production for real feedback, and use feature toggles to reduce risk, Ola Hast and Asgaut Mjølne Söderbom mentioned in their talk about continuous delivery with pair programming at QCon … Read more

Culture Through Tension: Leading Interdisciplinary Teams with Nick Gillian

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Transcript Shane Hastie: Good day, folks. This is Shane Hastie for the InfoQ Engineering Culture Podcast. Today, I’m sitting down with Nick Gillian. Nick, welcome. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. Nick Gillian: Thank you, Shane. Great to be here. Shane Hastie: My normal starting point for these conversations is, who’s … Read more

Mezzalira at QCon London: Micro-Frontends From Design to Organisational Benefits and Deployments

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During his QCon London presentation, Luca Mezzalira, principal architect at AWS, shared his experience in building the ideal micro frontend platform. He disclosed the recipe for determining if micro frontends are right for your company, as well as the core principles of creating the perfect architecture for your use case, and also provided deployment strategies … Read more

Comprehensive Approaches to Software Supply Chain Security

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Transcript Brodskyi: My name is Mykhailo Brodskyi. As Principal Software Architect, I focus on platform security and cloud migration. I’m going to walk you through top four security risk categories in software supply chain and show you how to mitigate them effectively. I will share real case studies from our projects, highlighting strategies that protect … Read more

Claire Vo on Building High-Performing, Customer-Centric Teams in the Age of AI

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Transcript Shane Hastie: Good day, folks. This is Shane Hastie from the InfoQ Engineering Culture Podcast. Today I’m sitting down with Claire Vo from LaunchDarkly. Claire, welcome. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us today. Claire Vo: Thanks so much for having me. Shane Hastie: My normal starting point in these conversations would … Read more