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From VR to Flat Screens: Bridging the Input and Immersion Gap

Dany Lepage discusses the architectural journey of porting a hit VR title to seven non-VR platforms. He explains how his team solved the challenges of cross-progression, diverse input paradigms, and maintaining release velocity across Steam, iOS, and PlayStation. Beyond the tech, he shares candid lessons on the "product fit" gap when translating immersive social presence to 2D screens.

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Architecture & Design

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Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing

Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to perform horizontal sharding, version upgrades, and multi-tenant migrations - all while maintaining the strict consistency required for global commerce.

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AI Infrastructure

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Time-Series Storage: Design Choices That Shape Cost and Performance

Every time-series database makes a set of storage design decisions: how to lay out rows, when to compress, what to partition on. These decisions determine cost and query performance more than the choice of database itself. This article works through those fundamentals from first principles, using widely available tools like PostgreSQL and Apache Parquet to make each trade-off measurable.

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Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact

Netflix’s Kasia Trapszo discusses the transition from writing code to scaling organizations. She shares lessons on building trust through technical clarity, aligning teams to solve the "right" problems, and using intentional documentation to scale your judgment. Learn how to move beyond individual output to create a lasting architectural legacy that empowers others to make better decisions.

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DevOps

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The Mathematics of Backlogs: Capacity Planning for Queue Recovery

Backlogs in distributed systems are arithmetic problems, not mysteries. This article provides practical formulas for calculating backlog drain time, sizing consumer headroom, and setting auto-scaling triggers. It covers key failure modes — retry amplification, metastable states, and cascading pipeline bottlenecks — plus when to shed load instead of draining.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Eberhard Wolff on the Death of Java Application Servers

Eberhard Wolff on the Death of Java Application Servers

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Eberhard Wolff works as a Freelance Consultant and Trainer in Germany. He is Head of the Technology Advisory Board for adesso AG. His focus are Cloud and Java technologies. He has authored several books including the first German book on Spring. He regularly contributes to conferences and several journals. Eberhard is a founding Java Champion and member of the GOTO Berlin Program Advisory Board.

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The GOTO Berlin program is created "for developers, by developers" where the emphasis is placed on presenting latest developments as they become relevant and interesting for the software development community. Some of the industry's best speakers, practioners and trainers will be at GOTO Berlin to present and train on a variety of topic areas.

Jan 18, 2015

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