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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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Deepfakes, Disinformation, and AI Content Are Taking Over the Internet

Shuman Ghosemajumder explains how generative AI has transformed from a creative curiosity into a high-scale tool for disinformation and fraud. He shares insights on "Disinformation Automation," the fallacy of CAPTCHA in an AI world, and why engineering leaders must adopt zero-trust "cyber fusion" strategies to defend against automated attacks that mimic human behavior with chilling accuracy.

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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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Beyond One-Click: Designing an Enterprise-Grade Observability Extension for Docker

Docker Extensions boost developer speed but create a "visibility gap" by isolating telemetry. To meet enterprise needs, extensions must act as bridges to centralized platforms. This article details how to use OpenTelemetry, policy-as-code, and encryption to build secure pipelines. Learn to balance developer productivity with the governance required for scalable, compliant observability.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Rúnar Bjarnason on Scalaz, Lenses, Functional Programming and Scala

Rúnar Bjarnason on Scalaz, Lenses, Functional Programming and Scala

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Rúnar Bjarnason is a software developer at Capital IQ, a global provider of data and analytics for financial professionals. Bjarnason is a principal contributor to the open-source Scalaz library and an occasional speaker and blogger on Scala and Functional Programming.

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Scala Days is the premier event for Scala enthusiasts, researchers, and practitioners. Scala is a general-purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional programming.

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