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Enforce data contracts at the source to guarantee application stability and deliver trusted data. - **Speakers:** Sandon Jacobs - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 34:30 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100498-from-guesswork-to-governance-data-contracts-bring-api-discipline-to-apache-kafka) ### Scaling Distributed Queues for AI workloads How does Meta process trillions of background tasks daily without wasting expensive GPU capacity? Unpack the distributed queue architecture powering their unpredictable AI workloads. - **Speakers:** Jasmit Kaur Saluja - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 22:58 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100473-scaling-distributed-queues-for-ai-workloads) ### Boring Failover: Predictable Region Recovery Across 5,000 Microservices Manual disaster recovery is obsolete. Intuit automated failovers across 5,000 microservices using declarative workflows. See how they slashed recovery time to under five minutes. - **Speakers:** Garvit Kataria, Sahil Sabharwal - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 20:28 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100455-boring-failover-predictable-region-recovery-across-5-000-microservices) ### Securing AI Agent Infrastructure: Identity, Attestation, and Trust at Scale When an unprotected AI agent encounters a hidden prompt injection, it blindly exfiltrates data. Learn how to secure tool calls with unforgeable cryptographic identities and robust access controls. - **Speakers:** Abdel Fane - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 25:54 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100438-securing-ai-agent-infrastructure-identity-attestation-and-trust-at-scale) ### No Single Model to Rule Them All: Building Resilient AI Agents Across Open & Closed LLMs The era of relying on a single proprietary LLM is over. Build resilient, cost-effective AI agents by dynamically routing workloads across open and closed models. - **Speakers:** Emmanuel Acheampong - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 14:05 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100415-no-single-model-to-rule-them-all-building-resilient-ai-agents-across-open-closed-llms) ### Full Stack with Flutter - are we there yet? Is full-stack Flutter finally production-ready? Discover how Serverpod unifies your client and backend with type-safe APIs, while keeping your architectural skills sharp against AI vendor lock-in. - **Speakers:** Nemanja Stošić - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 25:12 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100366-full-stack-with-flutter-are-we-there-yet) ### Fireside Chat with Gerhard Eschelbeck, Fmr. Google CISO Gerhard Eschelbeck warns that AI just compressed a decade of vulnerabilities into a single year. Discover why traditional patching is dead and how to secure autonomous agents. - **Speakers:** Gerhard Eschelbeck, Sead Ahmetović - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 29:34 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100610-fireside-chat-with-gerhard-eschelbeck-fmr-google-ciso) ### The MCP haters are half right Is context rot from bloated tool definitions paralyzing your AI agents? Discover how Apify's universal CLI client fixes this headache by merging MCP with traditional bash commands. - **Speakers:** Vojta Kopal - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 20:44 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100587-the-mcp-haters-are-half-right) ### Building AI Products vs. Building With AI With code generation costs approaching zero, manual pull request reviews are becoming obsolete. Learn how engineers are evolving into operators of high-velocity AI software factories. - **Speakers:** Aparna Dhinakaran, Rukmini Reddy, Tamar Bercovici - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 30:15 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100547-building-ai-products-vs-building-with-ai) ### When Humans Stop Writing Code: Rethinking Languages, Compilers, and Responsibility Code is becoming the new assembly language. As AI automates syntax, deep engineering judgment is your only defense. Master the shift from typing lines to defining system guarantees. - **Speakers:** Simon Auer - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 31:00 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100529-when-humans-stop-writing-code-rethinking-languages-compilers-and-responsibility) ### It passed auth, then production caught fire Authorization bugs are no longer just security risks—they are site reliability emergencies. Stop fragmented permissions from burning down your distributed systems with externalized policies. - **Speakers:** Alex Olivier - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 22:59 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100499-it-passed-auth-then-production-caught-fire) ### Merging at Scale: From Broken Builds to Green Mainline How does Uber merge thousands of daily commits without breaking the build? Discover how probabilistic speculation keeps their massive Go monorepo green. - **Speakers:** Manjari Akella, Preetam Dwivedi - **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America - **Published:** September 25, 2026 - **Duration:** 24:25 - [Watch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100480-merging-at-scale-from-broken-builds-to-green-mainline) [Next page](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/world-congress-2026-north-america?page=12)