Software Factories Meet Production

​AI coding is quickly being productionized through software factories. But building a reliable software factory is still surprisingly difficult and fraught with challenges. How do you keep a fleet of agents productive instead of idle? When do you run agents locally versus in the cloud? How do you secure them, when do you bring a human in the loop, and how do you catch and learn from failures?

​Datadog, Cleric, and the AAIF are teaming up to bring you a night of practitioner talks. Three engineers will each take one component of their factory and walk through what it took to build: the design they started with, what broke, and where they ended up. Orchestration, review, verification, security. Each talk covers at least one.

​Each talk is 7 minutes with a few minutes of questions. Short and specific, think failure modes, war stories, and lessons learned.

Speakers

• ​Dex Horthy, Humanlayer founder: Software factory design patterns

• ​Geoffrey Oxberry, Senior Software Engineer at Datadog: Building performance tests into a software factory

• ​Diptanu Choudhury, Tensorlake founder

​Agenda

• ​6:00 Doors, pizza, mingling

• ​6:30 Welcome

• ​6:40 Lightning talks, 7 minutes plus 5 minutes of Q&A each

• ​7:10 Open floor, speakers stay for questions

• ​8:00 Out

​Details

​Tuesday, September 9, 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the Datadog office in San Francisco. Space is limited and we read every registration, so tell us what you're building with agents!