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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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Context is the Key to the Agentic Architecture Revolution: a Conversation with Baruch Sadogursky

Michael Stiefel spoke to Baruch Sadogursky about software architecture in the age of agentic AI. LLM can function, albeit stochastically, as reasoning machines capable of interpreting human ambiguity. With the appropriate rigorous context artifacts to control the LLM’s reasoning, software specifications can become the source of truth, while the code becomes a disposable intermediate language.

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AI Infrastructure

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Building Evals for AI Adoption: From Principles to Practice

Mallika Rao discusses the hidden risk of evaluation debt in production AI systems, drawing on her experience at Twitter, Walmart, and Netflix. She explains why traditional metrics fail modern architectures, breaks down a five-layer evaluation stack spanning infrastructure and UX, and shares a diagnostic maturity model to help engineering leaders eliminate silent semantic failures.

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Culture & Methods

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From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup

Trisha Ballakur discusses her journey from a backend software engineer to CTO and CEO, using her startup Pointz as a case study. She explains how to implement bottom-up customer discovery to find product-market fit, effectively delegate to global contractors to reduce build times, customize open-source repos like Valhalla, and apply engineering test-case models to business development.

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DevOps

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Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads

Joseph Stein discusses engineering an enterprise AI-as-a-Service platform within a private cloud data center. He explains how to maximize underutilized GPU pools via multi-namespace scheduling, leverage Valkey and Lua for atomic priority queuing and backpressure management, mitigate OWASP Top 10 LLM risks via central proxy gateways, and scale batch pipelines using a custom S3-to-Kafka proxy.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Agile in the Enterprise with Shane Hastie

Agile in the Enterprise with Shane Hastie

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Shane Hastie is the Chief Knowledge Engineer for Software Education (www.softed.com) a training and consulting company working in Australia, New Zealand and around the world. Shane leads Software Education's Agile Practice and In 2011 Shane was elected as a Director of the Agile Alliance (www.agilealliance.org).

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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.

Jan 09, 2013

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