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Development

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Developing Meta's Orion AR Glasses

Jinsong Yu shares deep architectural insights into the Orion AR glasses, detailing the use of 11 custom microcontrollers for thermal dissipation, the SLAM/VIO needed for world-locked rendering, and input fusion (EMG, eye/hand tracking). He concludes with critical lessons for technical leaders on setting direction, managing complexity through testing, and strategic hardware-software co-design.

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Architecture & Design

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Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from Over Twenty Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Building resilient platforms requires understanding the art and science of creating infrastructure that others depend on for critical applications. This perspective applies to anyone who builds software consumed by others at scale. Whether developing infrastructure platforms, software development platforms, or messaging systems, principles address how to build software that others consume at scale

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AI Infrastructure

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Reducing False Positives in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Semantic Caching: A Banking Case Study

In this article, author Elakkiya Daivam discusses why Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic caching techniques are powerful levers for reducing false positives in AI powered applications. She shares the insights from a production-grade evaluation with 1,000 query variations tested across seven bi-encoder models.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

AI Amplifies Team Strengths and Weaknesses in Software Development

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jon Kern and Anita Zbieg about how AI amplifies both delivery efficiency and weaknesses in development teams, the importance of fundamental collaboration practices, and maintaining holistic system thinking.

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DevOps

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When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions meant to simplify become hidden fragility points. Success requires profiling on target hardware, relentlessly monitoring boring details, keeping hot paths lean, and trusting instrumentation over theory.

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Go from AI demos to real engineering impact. Learn to embed LLMs, govern & scale securely.

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Benchmark against top engineering teams. Learn what works in AI, architecture, data, security & FinTech.

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Learn how leading engineering teams run AI in production—reliably, securely, and at scale.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Interview with Adam Ernst on functional approaches for iOS applications

Interview with Adam Ernst on functional approaches for iOS applications

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As an engineer on the iOS team at Facebook New York, Adam helped relaunch the Facebook iOS app to use native code. Today he works on News Feed for iOS with a focus on building tools for other developers. Before joining Facebook, Adam was an independent iOS developer and created the iTrans series of mass transit apps.He studied computer science at Princeton University.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

Aug 16, 2014

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