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Development

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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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Architecting Autonomy: Decentralising Architecture Inside an Organization

As AI accelerates delivery cycles, traditional centralized architecture becomes a bottleneck. This eMag brings together practitioner insights on decentralizing decision-making and moving from approval chains to guardrails. Discover frameworks for rethinking the architect’s role, creating enabling platforms, and balancing edge autonomy with the strategic coherence needed to scale effectively.

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AI Infrastructure

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Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Large-Scale Engineering Systems

Julie Qiu explains how AI serves as a "thinking partner" for engineering leaders. She discusses five distinct roles - Archaeologist, Experimenter, Critic, Author, and Reviewer - to manage the cognitive load of 400+ repositories. She shares how AI provides the "RAM" needed to synthesize legacy context, pressure-test designs, and accelerate high-level architectural decisions.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox

Amit Navindgi discusses the systematic shift at Zoox from fragmented documentation to an AI-driven ecosystem. He explains how they built "Cortex," a secure platform integrating RAG, multi-modal LLMs, and contributor-friendly agent APIs. He shares practical strategies for driving adoption through AI champions and hackathons, emphasizing the move from deterministic workflows to autonomous agents.

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DevOps

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Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application

Daniele Frasca explains the architectural evolution of Joyn, a German streaming giant. He discusses moving from fragile single-node setups to resilient serverless architectures using AWS. He shares insights on the Hub and Spoke pattern for data consistency, cell-based isolation to reduce blast radius, and cost-optimization strategies for achieving affordable multi-region active-active setups.

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DevOps

Building a Future-Proof Observability Platform to Empower Engineers

Wayne Bell and Dan Gomez Blanco explain how Skyscanner transitioned from siloed telemetry to a unified OpenTelemetry standard, treating their internal platform as a product to drive adoption.

Dan Gomez Blanco Wayne Bell
on Apr 27, 2026

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49:06
Architecture & Design

Reliable Architectures through Observability

Kent Quirk shows an overview of observability tools and techniques, and specific recommendations for how to fit observability into their system designs and day-to-day development process.

Kent Quirk
on Jan 11, 2024

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48:59
DevOps

Effective and Efficient Observability with OpenTelemetry

Daniel Gomez Blanco shares his experience leading a large-scale observability initiative at Skyscanner, based on the adoption of OpenTelemetry across hundreds of services.

Daniel Gomez Blanco
on Sep 06, 2023

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45:25
DevOps

State of OpenTelemetry, Where Are We and What’s Next?

Michael Hausenblas discusses what problems OpenTelemetry solves, and overviews the ecosystem and status of various projects within OpenTelemetry.

Michael Hausenblas
on Jan 19, 2023

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