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Platform Engineering 2.0: Evolution, Not a Reset with Pankaj Gupta
Platform engineering has transitioned from an optional practice to a foundational necessity, with over 90% of organizations now adopting it to reduce developer cognitive load and standardize workflows. Pankaj Gupta, from Broadcom’s VCF division, argues that the field must now evolve into "Platform Engineering 2.0" to a...

The BOM Explosion & Why PQC Stopped Being 10 Years Away with David Pollak & Allan Friedman

Good Wigs & Golden Paths: Dev Tools in the AI Era with Victoria Melnikova

"Somebody is always paying the token bill": AI and Open Source with Brian Proffitt & Jason Brooks

From Stock Photos to Trillions of Artifacts: Shutterstock's Data Journey with Jefferson Frazer

Why ChatGPT Recommends Your Competitor: LLMs & the Future of DevTool Marketing with Adam DuVander

Why AI Agents Are Blowing Up Your Telemetry Bill with Nikhil Mungel
The integration of AI agents into enterprise software necessitates new strategies for managing telemetry, token costs, and governance. Agentic workflows significantly increase data volume, requiring robust observability tools to compress and analyze telemetry effectively. Token management has emerged as a critical reli...

The Digital Sovereignty Questions Every Enterprise Should Be Asking with Jason Willeford

The Data Behind the Agents with MongoDB's Boris Bialek & Intellect Design's Raman Jatkar

Evidence Over Certificates: John Ellis on the Eclipse Trustable Software Framework

From Dashboards to APIs: Day Two Operations in VCF 9.1 with Sehjung Hah

Dealing with the Next Bottleneck: Build Management at AI Scale with Helen Altshuler
AI-driven software development is creating massive bottlenecks in build and test infrastructure, forcing organizations to rethink their developer workflows. As code volume and velocity surge, traditional CI/CD pipelines struggle, making pull requests a primary throttle for production. Bazel, a build system originally e...

"Don't Submit Code You Don't Understand": Angie Byron on AI and Open Source Trust

Why the Gateway Approach to Agents Sucks (and What to Do Instead) with Marek Poliks
Agentic AI systems require a shift from passive observability to active runtime control to manage non-deterministic behavior effectively. Traditional AI gateways often introduce brittle, high-latency third-party dependencies that fail to provide granular governance over agent harnesses. Instead, leveraging feature flag...

Where Crochet Meets Code: Fiber Arts and the History of Computing with Abbey Perini

Charity Majors on AI, Determinism, Instrumentation, & Eating Your Broccoli

Tech for Chickens with JT Perry

Going Down the Stack: AI Inference, Kernel Fusion, and Model Tuning with Paul Brookes

When Agents Become Users: Rethinking Developer Portals with Balaji Sivasubramanian
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