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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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Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing

Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to perform horizontal sharding, version upgrades, and multi-tenant migrations - all while maintaining the strict consistency required for global commerce.

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AI Infrastructure

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Leadership in AI-Assisted Engineering

Justin Reock discusses the reality of AI’s impact on engineering, moving past anecdotes to hard data from DORA and DX research. He explains the "GenAI Divide" - where 95% of pilots fail - and shares how leaders can use the SPACE and Core 4 frameworks to measure true ROI. He explains how to balance speed with quality, reduce developer fear, and apply agentic solutions across the entire SDLC.

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Culture & Methods

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The AI Joy Gap: Why Some Developers Thrive While Others Struggle

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Michael Parker, VP of Engineering at TurinTech AI, about bringing joy back to software development in the AI era, the emerging role of "factory architects" who orchestrate AI agents rather than write code directly, and the cultural divide between AI hype and the reality developers face on legacy codebases.

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DevOps

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How Netflix Shapes our Fleet for Efficiency and Reliability

The speakers explain the inherent tension between service efficiency and reliability at Netflix's global scale. They share a mental model for "risk-adjusted net value," moving beyond simple CPU utilization to focus on capacity buffers. They discuss hardware shaping, proactive traffic steering, and reactive levers like "hammers" and prioritized load shedding to protect critical playback.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Mike Griffiths on DSDM, Agile and the PMI

Mike Griffiths on DSDM, Agile and the PMI

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Mike Griffiths is a project manager, trainer, consultant and writer, holding multiple project management and Agile certifications. In 1994, he helped create DSDM (Dynamic Systems Development Method). He is the author of "PMI-ACP Exam Prep", was on the original PMI-ACP Steering Committee and helped create the PMBOK v5 Guide and Software Extension. He maintains his own blog at leadinganswers.com.

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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.

Mar 22, 2013

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