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In this episode, Chris Swan, engineer at Atsign and security track host at QCon London, reflects on the ideas shared during QCon London 2026 and teases topics of the future edition. The discussion explores how security engineering is shifting from relying on human vigilance toward automated, system-level defences across the entire application stack. (Podcast)
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In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Matt Gjertsen, founder of Built and author of Minimum Viable Manager, about the three foundational skills every first-time manager needs, how to build trust and give effective feedback, and why human leadership skills matter even more in the age of AI. (Podcast)
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TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES
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Prasanna Vijayanathan and Renzo Sanchez-Silva share how Netflix tackles observability across 38M events/sec. They discuss replacing reactive monitoring with an AI-driven operational ontology and agentic workflows using Claude and graph databases. They explain how unifying MELT telemetry into queryable knowledge graphs enables automated triaging, root-cause analysis, and self-healing systems. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Pratik Rasam discusses how Spotify Ads Manager runs production-grade multi-agent systems at scale using Google ADK Java. He shares key architectural patterns, domain ownership models, deterministic guardrails, and tracing-based evaluation strategies, detailing hard-learned lessons on drawing agent boundaries, optimizing tool schemas, and managing costs while avoiding monolithic agent pitfalls. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Susan Chang explains how Elastic transitioned from siloed, ad-hoc AI agent evaluations to a unified, production-grade framework. She discusses balancing LLM-as-a-judge with deterministic rules, bridging Python data science evals with TypeScript production code, and implementing deep tracing to catch regressions across complex RAG and cybersecurity workloads while preserving domain context. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES
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In this article, author discusses his experience with AI agent hallucinations in an inventory recommendation system and how this problem was solved by treating the LLM stack as a platform infrastructure concern instead of as an application one. He makes a case for a shared LLM platform with common services like prompt registry & versioning, schema enforcement and token cost attribution by request. (Article)
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Matthew Liste explains the 12 core principles of building scalable, reliable platforms for enterprise tech teams. From avoiding technical debt and managing deprecation to building a strong engineering culture, Liste discusses how to design infrastructure platforms that reduce complexity, streamline developer workflows, and deliver long-term value for senior architects and engineering leaders. (Presentation with transcript included)
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TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES
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Cloudflare has put Traces into open beta, extending automatic tracing from Workers to security rules, transformations, cache, routing and origin handling as OpenTelemetry spans. Traces accept and forward W3C traceparent headers, and Trace Rules allow targeted sampling. Pricing moves to ingestion and retention volume from December 1. (News)
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TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES
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Cloudflare will operate a free public Certificate Authority to issue quantum-safe Transport Layer Security certificates. This initiative addresses challenges in migrating from classical public key cryptography to post-quantum methods. It utilizes Merkle Tree Certificates to reduce data payloads and maintain system efficiency, while also enhancing certificate transparency and revocation processes. (News)
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This week's Java roundup for September 28th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA releases of JobRunr 9.0 and OpenXava 8.0; point releases for Quarkus, Micronaut, LangChain4j, Eclipse JNoSQL; ADK for Java and ADK for Kotlin; and introducing Lathe, a new Java language server. (News)
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Microsoft has released Aspire 13.6. The dashboard now stores telemetry in SQLite and keeps up to ten completed runs per application. The release adds prerelease hosting packages for Java and Rust, portable volume paths, and new CLI options. Breaking changes include automatic TLS for local MongoDB resources and a new default Cosmos DB emulator image. (News)
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Shopify has updated its Checkout Blocks app, transitioning five high-traffic checkout UI extensions to remote-dom using Preact and Polaris web components. The rewrite, which involved moving to TypeScript and a new API version, led to significant reductions in bundle sizes and load times. From October 1, 2026, only the updated versions will be supported. (News)
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Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluation, and continuous scoring to better assess performance on complex, multi-step development tasks. (News)
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TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES
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The article describes a custom implementation that provides a session-level ordering on top of Apache Kafka partitions, supporting strict message ordering across 1000s of independent channels. The solution required application-level routing, consistent hashing, retries, and contiguous watermark commits. Engineers conducted operational hardening supported by extensive performance testing. (Article)
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Hannah Foxwell shares how the surge of agentic coding forces engineering leaders to rethink team dynamics. She discusses three key anchors for navigating AI-driven velocity: building software worth building, prioritizing automated safety over speed, and preserving the human element through generalist "broken comb" skillsets and sustainable on-call practices. (Presentation with transcript included)
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