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Shopify Staff Engineer Guilherme Carreiro discusses building and scaling highly customizable platforms. Using Shopify’s Liquid theme system as a case study, he explains how to balance extreme design flexibility with low-latency performance under massive traffic. He shares insights on implementing secure domain-specific languages, native code extensions, and resilient developer tooling. By Guilherme Carreiro

Michael Stiefel spoke to Sonya Natanzon, about the intersection of technical and social aspects of software architecture. Understanding the business and how a company operates is more important than the specific technologies used. Effective requirements analysis requires focusing on problems to be solved that describe good and bad outcomes, rather than statements of need or solution statements. By Sonya Natanzon

InfoQ expands its online certification portfolio with new AI Engineering and Organizational Architecture cohorts, giving senior practitioners a confidential peer group to pressure-test production AI, platform, team design, and architecture decisions. By Artenisa Chatziou

Sergiu Petean discusses the strategic journey of evolving DevOps into platform engineering within heavily regulated enterprise environments. He explains how to maximize efficiency using dynamic reference architectures, align platform KPIs directly with board-level business goals, reduce cognitive load via custom team topologies, and maintain innovation sovereignty through open-source technology. By Sergiu Petean