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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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How to Build an Exchange: Sub Millisecond Response Times and 24/7 Uptimes in the Cloud

Frank Yu shares Coinbase’s engineering philosophy for building resilient, fair, and fast financial exchanges. He explains the power of a single-threaded architecture combined with the Raft consensus algorithm to maintain 24/7 availability. He discusses how determinism enables zero-downtime rolling deployments and the ability to replay production logs for perfect bug reproduction.

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AI Infrastructure

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Agents, Architecture, & Amnesia: Becoming AI-Native Without Losing Our Minds

Tracy Bannon shares a cautionary tale of "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" to illustrate the risks of unbridled AI autonomy. She discusses the shift from bots to autonomous agents, explaining how reckless speed leads to "Architectural Amnesia." She provides a concrete framework for "Minimum Viable Governance," focusing on identity, delegation, and ADRs to manage debt at machine speed across the SDLC.

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Culture & Methods

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Panel: Building a Culture that Works

The panelists share insights on evolving company culture. They discuss leveraging feedback loops, lending social capital, and the friction between legacy bureaucracy and agile engineering. The panel explains how to maintain cohesion in remote teams and use interviews to uncover the true "unmanicured" culture of a firm.

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DevOps

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AI-Powered SRE for Autonomous Incident Response

The presenters discuss incident response, how AI-enhanced SRE platforms connect signals from logs, metrics, traces, and historical incidents to enable autonomous decisions.

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Jim Highsmith is an executive consultant with ThoughtWorks, Inc., having spent 30-plus years as an IT manager, product manager, project manager, consultant, and software developer. In 2005 he was honored to receive international Stevens Award for outstanding contributions to systems development. Jim is coauthor of the Agile Manifesto and a founding member of The AgileAlliance.

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The Agile Alliance organizes the Agile series conference, which bring together all the key people in the Agile space to talk about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and experience, and the management and development sides of agile software development.

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