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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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Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking - What Works, What Hurts?

Chris Tacey-Green discusses the shift from synchronous commands to asynchronous events within highly regulated environments. He explains the critical role of Inbox and Outbox patterns in preventing data loss, the nuances of event versioning, and how to maintain decoupling between domains. He shares "battle-tested" principles for implementing fault tolerance and managing eventual consistency.

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AI Infrastructure

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Dynamic Moments: Weaving LLMs into Deep Personalization at DoorDash

Sudeep Das and Pradeep Muthukrishnan explain the shift from static merchandising to dynamic, moment-aware personalization at DoorDash. They share how LLMs generate natural-language "consumer profiles" and content blueprints, while traditional deep learning handles last-mile ranking. This hybrid approach allows the platform to adapt to short-lived user intent and massive catalog abundance.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

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 Enyo Kumahor on Frugal Innovation and Technology in Africa

Enyo Kumahor on Frugal Innovation and Technology in Africa

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Betty Enyonam Kumahor comes from Ghana and is the Regional Managing Director of Pan-Africa for ThoughtWorks, working across the whole continent. Previously she led Ernst & Young’s Service Delivery Technology function for their Global Advisory practice deploying technology solutions across the 140+ countries where they operate. She serves on multiple advisory and non-profit boards across Africa.

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The Agile Australia conference brings together technology leaders from across enterprises. The audience is a mixture of project and team leaders, coaches, software developers, testers, business analysts and the executive managers of Australian businesses to share innovations and better ways of working.

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