Getting Feedback from Test-Driven Development and Testing in Production

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

No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

Transcript Po Linn Chia: My name is Po. Today I’ll be talking about No QA Environment, No Problem: How ClassPass has Enabled Testing on a Single Environment in ECS. ClassPass, Mindbody, I’m on the ClassPass side of the org. I think we’re now also called Playlist. ClassPass is a subscription-based platform. People subscribe to us, … Read more

Comprehensive Approaches to Software Supply Chain Security

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

Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

Transcript Ene: We’re going to talk about how we rebuilt a Prime Video UI for living room devices with Rust and WebAssembly, and the journey that got us there. I’m Alex. I’ve been a principal engineer with Amazon for about eight years. We’ve been working with Rust for a while actually in our tech stack … Read more

Dare Mighty Things: What NASA’s Endeavors Teach Us About the Power of Calculated RISCs

Transcript Shams: “The National Space Station represents a groundbreaking collaboration between five space agencies, transcending geopolitical boundaries to extend scientific knowledge. Centuries later, image recaptured from the ISS showcases the Earth’s splendor in ways unimaginable in this era. The vibrant colors, the delicate atmosphere, and the brilliant reflection of sunlight affirm Galileo’s assertion that the … Read more

Eclipse LMOS: Launching AI Agents Across Europe at Breakneck Speed

Key Takeaways The article describes the journey of creating a multi-agent platform, a Language Model Operating System (LMOS), which was developed to solve the challenge of deploying LLM-powered applications for highly distributed scenarios with localized constraints. Initially built upon JVM-based tooling, the platform leverages concurrency constraints and the need for domain-specific languages (DSLs) … Read more

A Framework for Building Micro Metrics for LLM System Evaluation

Key Takeaways Each problem in the AI space has unique challenges. Once you’ve been serving production traffic, you’ll find edge cases and scenarios you want to measure. Consider models as systems: LLMs are part of broader systems. Their performance and reliability require careful observability, guardrails, and alignment with user and business objectives. … Read more