Infobip Shift 2023
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| DOOM Postmortem: 30 Years of DOOM | John Romero | 23m |
A month-by-month 1993 postmortem of Doom explains concrete choices: development on NeXT using a custom level editor DoomEd, textured sprites scanned from toy… | ||
| Software 3.0 and The Emerging AI Developer Landscape | Shawn Swyx Wang | 28m |
Argues that an emergent "AI engineer" role is already forming, focused on composing foundation models, not training them, because GPUs and expertise are scarce… | ||
| How Web Developers Gained Super Powers | Christian Bach | 24m |
A history of decoupling shows how pre-rendered sites and pre-render to the edge plus headless APIs and serverless functions let frontend teams ship much… | ||
| Lessons Learned from 7 years of Running Developer Platforms | Michael Coté | 26m |
Seven years of running internal developer platforms yields concrete lessons: Kubernetes adoption often reduces release velocity once you scale, so platform… | ||
| Looks GREAT To Me: Getting Past Bare Minimum Code Reviews | Adrienne Braganza Tacke | 32m |
Argues that “LGTM” often masks rushed reviews and gives concrete fixes: reviewers must use 25–45 minute review bursts, write objective comments with the Triple… | ||
| Product Decisions for Building a PLG SaaS Company | Milin Desai | 21m |
Sentry serves ~100,000 organizations and follows three hard product choices: serve the developer persona, optimize for fast answers not dashboards, and make… | ||
| Hiring With A Handshake | Meade Kincke | 30m |
Hiring prioritizes trust over theatre, so replace ghosting and one‑way “no‑reply” emails with clear offers and refusals and set a 200 applicant cap to stop… | ||
| Stop Building APIs | Peter van Vliet | 27m |
Claim: eliminate hand‑written API endpoints by automating front/back communication at the import level. Uses the JavaScript/TypeScript module system plus a… | ||
| What it Takes to Build & Operate a Global Serverless Provider | Yann Léger | 24m |
Platform abstracts public clouds and orchestrates workloads with Nomad orchestration and lightweight VMs via Firecracker microVMs, running containers inside… | ||
| Picking Your (Tech) Poison Wisely | Boris Martinović | 25m |
Start by defining what to build, use Google/ChatGPT/Bing to shortlist candidates, and favor the simplest tool that meets current and near-future requirements… | ||
| Rspack: The Rust-Fueled Bundling Breakthrough | Devlin Duldulao | 23m |
Two Rust bundlers get compared: Turbopack (Vercel) and Rspack (ByteDance). Turbopack uses an incremental computation engine plus sswc to cache function outputs… | ||
| Why the Ultimate Web Framework Will be a Language (DSL) | Matija Sosic | 22m |
Argues that a web framework built as a DSL can describe the what across frontend, backend and database and then generate working code; demonstrates Wasp… | ||
| The Future of the Cloud is WebAssembly | Sohan Maheshwar | 30m |
Claim: WebAssembly plus WASI will power server workloads, not just browsers. Uses the open source Spin CLI and Firon cloud to build a Rust HTTP function… | ||
| Architecting Kubernetes Clusters for High Traffic Sites | Alexander Serebryakov | 28m |
Practical notes on running Kubernetes edge traffic with the NGINX Ingress Controller and related pieces: deploy as a Deployment, DaemonSet, or on dedicated… | ||
| How to Find Secure Software in Open Source Repositories | Robert Perica, Denis Mandić | 24m |
Explains how to assess open‑source components with concrete checks: generate an SBOM (CycloneDX/SPDX), scan licenses with Dependency‑Track, detect secrets with… | ||
| Unleashing the Power of Git-Based Content Management Systems | Martin Jagodic | 27m |
A Git-based CMS like Decap CMS stores content as files in the repository so full version history and restores are native, and setup literally requires two… | ||
| The (too) Many Faces of Architecture | Mihaela-Roxana Ghidersa | 24m |
Claims that Conway's Law drives system structure, that architecture is a set of significant decisions with a measurable layers of change cost, and that… | ||
| 3 Pitfalls Everyone Should Avoid with Cloud Data | Eric D. Schabell | 36m |
Cloud projects repeatedly blow budgets and ops because observability is massive and mismanaged: across customers about 60% useless telemetry arrives and most… | ||
| Sticking the Landing | Mateo Todoric | 20m |
Maps technical debt to opportunity cost in story points and measures it: 2,600 total story points per year with 1,600 story points delivered as features and… | ||
| How to Manage Innovative Projects? | Tomislav Bronzin | 30m |
A team-level recipe for turning ideas into sellable products: proven use of computer vision and AI across products that have earned five patents, nine… | ||
| Extreme Autonomy - Create Space so your Knowledge Workers Can Thrive | Steve Tauber | 33m |
Claims a repeatable system of Resilience Focus Wellness based on over 100 startup audits and gives concrete practices: use a nine‑box grid and JDI surveys to… | ||
| AI Is Revolutionizing Developer Experience - Are You Ready? | James Q Quick | 36m |
AI shows up as concrete features and cash forecasts: vendors add Notion AI, GitHub Copilot, and diagram GPT to products because the AI market is pegged near… | ||
| Accelerate Your Career with Open Source | Eddie Jaoude | 26m |
Claim: open source, not LeetCode or LinkedIn, accelerates careers and eliminates the need for a resume after a decade. Concrete tips: look at a repo’s… | ||
| Developer Joy – How Great Teams Get s%*t Done | Sven Peters | 26m |
Argues that improving developer joy raises real productivity and gives concrete fixes: a flaky test detector that reruns failures, marks tests as skipped… | ||
| The Future of Skills: Qualifications in the Age of AI | Joshua Wohle | 15m |
Claim: AI already automates huge swaths of work and hiring now prizes human skills and demonstrable outputs. Examples: ChatGPT, MidJourney, Jasper, Harvey… | ||
| Leveraging Standardized Dev Environments for Peak Developer Velocity | Ivan Burazin | 18m |
Standardized development environments promise an always-working workspace by shipping a config file (examples: Dev Container, Devfile, Nix) inside each repo so… | ||
| Why Docs-as-Code Peer Review Should be Part of your Dev Cycle | Joanna Suau | 26m |
Argues that treating docs as code replaces locked WYSIWYG files with plain text in git, enforces markdown in git, and makes review a normal pull request… | ||
| Reverse Engineering a Web API | Joyce Lin | 27m |
Reverse engineering a private web API here means capturing real traffic with DevTools exports and a HAR file, or intercepting multi-device streams via a proxy… | ||
| A Deep Dive into Development Environment Configuration Standards | Toma Puljak | 25m |
Compares three concrete standards and what each actually gives: Dev containers (Microsoft, open source) delivers JSON configs, VS Code and JetBrains… | ||
| How to Low Code (for Developers) | Amanda Martin | 26m |
Client builds a Wix site over a weekend and asks for an API hookup; the site works for the event. Wix offers a visual editor plus a code layer with GitHub +… | ||
| New Trends in Front-End Development (and What We Can Learn from them) | Tejas Kumar | 29m |
Shows a live BFF prototype using Bun + Express and React DOM server to stream HTML via renderToPipeableStream so the page loads with full data and no client JS… | ||
| Building High-Performance Online Stores with Shopify Hydrogen and Remix | Alexandra Spalato | 26m |
Builds a lightweight storefront from the CLI (npm create shopify) using the hello‑world template, Storyblok for CMS content, and Shopify Hydrogen on top of… | ||
| The Event Loop Fairytale | Lorenzo Pieri | 31m |
Clear walkthrough of how Node.js actually schedules work: the event loop runs six-ish phases (timers, I/O callbacks, poll, check, close) while process.nextTick… | ||
| Harness the Power of a Single Database for Microservices | Franck Pachot | 31m |
Argues that multiple microservices can share a single SQL database when using modern relational and distributed SQL features to isolate workloads and maintain… | ||
| How We Created A Global Engineering Handbook in 3 Days | Ivan Brezak Brkan | 27m |
A global engineering handbook gets planned, written and published in 72 hours using a tight, staged process: ideation with Post‑its and voting, outlines, then… | ||
| Skip the Queue! Event-Driven Apps for Everyone with Postgres! | Jesse Martin | 26m |
Claim: you can skip an external queue for many workflows by using Postgres-native event behavior instead of Kafka/Rabbit. Demo shows Hura/Hyera creating… | ||
| Java, Life is Short! | Kevin Dubois | 31m |
Shows concrete tools and demos: uses SDKMAN to switch JVMs, spins up a Quarkus project with Quarkus Dev hot reload and continuous testing, and adds… | ||
| Model-Based E2E Testing With State Machines | Erik Rasmussen | 31m |
A working model-based test suite for an autocomplete UI that replaces many repetitive Playwright specs with a state machine that enumerates paths and runs them… | ||
| Optimizing Product Development: Balancing Speed, Quality, and Process | Mario Pavić | 22m |
A team of 55 engineers tries Agile rituals—story points and burndown charts—and still stalls until a QA proposes a rough idea that design and cross‑team… | ||
| Hear! An Accessibility Tale from a Hearing-Impaired Senior Software Engineer | Ante Tomić | 30m |
Lives with 50% hearing loss and shows concrete fixes: uses Microsoft Teams live captions and Slack captions which cut misunderstanding, and publishes an… | ||
| From Unfamiliar to Confident: A Guide to Taking Over Someone Else's Project | Igor Vlahek | 32m |
Advice: learn an unfamiliar codebase by writing a first integration test that starts as a failing “hello” with an empty properties file so the code “fights… | ||
| Bulletproof Design Systems | Eva Ferreira | 29m |
Builds a pragmatic path: pick a pilot project that can cover 80/20 rule components, run a CSS audit (found an example with 30 font-size declarations)… | ||
| Web Accessibility Strategies for Non-Accessible Projects | Adrián Bolonio | 24m |
Presents a four‑pillar plan: commit and KPI, audit and recruit people with disabilities, embed accessibility in processes, and add observability and tests… | ||
| Developer Productivity – How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI | Baruch Sadogursky | 33m |
Shows concrete fixes for slow JVM builds: enable Gradle build scans to find tests as the bottleneck, add Mantium embeddings plugin so ChatGPT uses up-to-date… | ||
| Using Computer Vision to Solve Interesting Problems | Tanel Unt | 21m |
Builds custom detectors with YOLOv7 using Frigate as the local video pipeline, Anaconda and LabelImg for setup and annotation, training on roughly 100–200… | ||
| The Ultimate DataHub for all your BigData needs | Bogusz Blaszkiewicz | 28m |
Pure Storage pitches FlashBlade as a purpose-built, multicontroller flash array that serves S3, NFS, SMB and REST APIs, encrypts data, and supports secure… | ||
| Using Kaskada to do Real Time Machine Learning | Mick Semb Wever | 33m |
Cascada is a real-time timeline engine with a Python API and a Rust core that stores processing in Apache Arrow and can use GPU, offering native time travel… | ||
| Safeguarding Sensitive Data in the Age of Generative AI | Sean Falconer | 25m |
Claims that LLMs have no delete button and that sensitive data must be fenced with a privacy vault drive the work here. A medical customer‑support assistant is… | ||
| Computer Vision in the Era of Deep Learning | Gordan Kreković | 26m |
Explains how convolutional filters become learned features in CNNs and why Viola‑Jones cascades are now replaced by learned kernels; shows a concrete monocular… | ||
| Why Do Peacocks Have Tails – Creating Engaging Chatbot Experiences | Zeljka Stiblik | 23m |
Defines a five‑step conversational design process (goals, users, use cases, persona, content) and shows where GPT helps and hurts: GPT speeds implementation… | ||
| The Future is Malleable | Aleksandra Sikora | 27m |
Claim: combining large language models with schema-aware Graph APIs produces user-driven, malleable apps. Prototype wires a prompt to the app schema and… | ||
| Hastening The Apocalypse: Self-replicating Personal AI Assistants | Jonan Scheffler | 30m |
Asserts that private, self‑replicating personal assistants are practical today by combining local LLMs with a peer‑to‑peer fabric: a portable DXs Halo USB key… | ||
| Human vs AI: How to Ship Secure Code | Joseph Katsioloudes | 30m |
GitHub Security Lab reports 300–400 zero days found over three years — roughly one every three days — and research shows one application security specialist… | ||
| Living Startups: The Tribe Saga | Lucija Reic, Stefan Despotović | 13m |
Program launched May 2021 runs a startup support program that offers over $1.5M in credits, reports 660+ applications, startups from 290 cities in 100+… | ||
| The Cutting Edge Ecosystem: Building the Future Around You | Liisi Org, Mario Stoev, Bozidar Pavlovic | 31m |
Estonia scales a dozen-year conference into a talent pipeline, runs startup visa and e‑Residency programs, and grows from four to 10 unicorns since 2019; claim… | ||
| The Unicorn Gameshow | Srdjan Kovacevic, Vedran Cindric, Rebecca Martin | 36m |
Hardware business stresses profitable from day one because long manufacturing cycles mean payroll and bills can’t wait; software business argues for… | ||
| Money, Money: You (Don't) Need It | Toomas Bergmann, Tunya Irkad, Kristiana Kuneva, Vedran Blagus | 29m |
Venture funding peaks through 2021–early 2022 unwind into a more cautious 2023: series A checks drop to ~€5M from €10–20M, investors demand revenue and 18–24… | ||
| Wellbeing for Performance: Through a Startup Lens | Janos Barberis, Dani Olliffe, James Roycroft-Davis | 30m |
Claim: healthier founders generate healthier returns, so wellbeing becomes a validated line item for boards and VCs. Data points: one in 10 founders close due… | ||
| Moneyball Generation: Sports & Tech | Josip Stuhli, Nikola Pavesic | 38m |
SofaScore runs a global live-sports app covering 24 sports with 25 million monthly active users and over 50 million Android downloads; backend is mostly PHP… | ||
| African Startups & Tech Communities | Filip Sasic, Menna Shahin, Marijan Cipcic, Antonio Separovic | 32m |
Infobip reports 10 offices in Africa and local teams that run developer meetups and market entry support while a food-tech startup builds a B2B2C surplus… | ||
| Why Are Startups Messy | Daniel Bodonyi, Bernard Ivezic, Joshua Wohle, Nina Sesto | 38m |
Startups are messy because growth hides structural inefficiency: several examples claim entire orgs continue to function on 15% of staff after cuts, layoffs… | ||
| Pitch: The Young'uns | David Polach, Filip Sasic, Krisztian Gyepes, Mario Stoev | 37m |
Five quick startup pitches: an influencer platform claiming 100% automation with 144 campaigns, 45 customers, 81% retention and 52 million views aiming for US… | ||
| West Meets East: CEE vs. Silicon Valley | Lucija Reic, Bogdan Iordache, Krisztian Gyepes, David Polach | 31m |
Central and Eastern Europe has deep engineering talent and visible winners—Infobip and UiPath put the region on the map and alumni spin out product and sales… | ||
| Out of This World: Founder Fun | Izabel Jelenic, Nevena Rendeli Vejzovic | 30m |
A founder story that maps concrete moves not platitudes: bootstrapped from 2003 to zero to $1B by layering lots of small bets, building carrier-grade hardware… | ||
| Pitch Session: The Perennials | Bozidar Pavlovic, Toomas Bergmann, Bogdan Iordache, Rebecca Martin | 45m |
Five quick pitches: Chino launches an instant virtual card that debits each group member’s bank account to split payments, claims 77% first‑month retention for… | ||
| Finance, Money and Other Demons | Rebecca Martin, Bozidar Pavlovic, Janos Barberis | 33m |
Panel argues fintech isn’t dead but is shifting: national rails matter—SingPass and PayNow, Aadhaar and UPI and Brazil’s PIX enable zero‑cost rails for new… | ||
| Introducing FastStream: Code Generation Meets Stream Processing | Davor Runje | 30m |
A new Python library called FastStream merges ideas from FastAPI, FastKafka and Propan to provide a multi-broker streaming framework with in-memory Kafka… | ||
| Reducing the Carbon Footprint of your Website | Ines Akrap | 30m |
Average page weight sits at 2.2 MB average page which converts—at 1,000 monthly views—to ~25.8 GB/year and ~9.2 kg CO2 per page, and multiplied by ~30 billion… | ||
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