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QCon London 2026: Introducing Tansu.io — Rethinking Kafka for Lean Operations
Peter Morgan introduced Tansu at QCon London, an open-source, Kafka-compatible, stateless, leaderless broker that scales to zero, with pluggable storage (S3, SQLite, Postgres), broker-side schema validation, and direct writes to Iceberg and Delta Lake. Written in Rust, it uses 20MB of RAM and starts in 10 milliseconds.
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By Sergio De SimonePresentation: Platform Engineering as a Practice of Sociotechnical Excellence
Lesley Cordero discusses platform engineering as a practice for driving sociotechnical change and organizational sustainability. She explains the "pendulum of tension" between developer experience and reliability, emphasizing that architectural patterns must solve for organizational complexity. She shares a leadership framework for moving from reactive heroism to proactive stewardship.
By Lesley CorderoStripe Engineers Deploy Minions, Autonomous Agents Producing Thousands of Pull Requests Weekly
Stripe engineers describe Minions, autonomous coding agents generating over 1,300 pull requests per week. Tasks can originate from Slack, bug reports, or feature requests. Using LLMs, blueprints, and CI/CD pipelines, Minions produce production-ready changes while maintaining reliability and human review.
By Leela KumiliHarness Reimagines Artifact Management for DevSecOps with New Artifact Registry
Harness has announced the general availability of Harness Artifact Registry, a platform capability designed to simplify how engineering teams store, secure, and govern software artifacts within modern DevSecOps pipelines.
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