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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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Architecting Autonomy: Decentralising Architecture Inside an Organization

As AI accelerates delivery cycles, traditional centralized architecture becomes a bottleneck. This eMag brings together practitioner insights on decentralizing decision-making and moving from approval chains to guardrails. Discover frameworks for rethinking the architect’s role, creating enabling platforms, and balancing edge autonomy with the strategic coherence needed to scale effectively.

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AI Infrastructure

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Using AI as a Thinking Partner for Large-Scale Engineering Systems

Julie Qiu explains how AI serves as a "thinking partner" for engineering leaders. She discusses five distinct roles - Archaeologist, Experimenter, Critic, Author, and Reviewer - to manage the cognitive load of 400+ repositories. She shares how AI provides the "RAM" needed to synthesize legacy context, pressure-test designs, and accelerate high-level architectural decisions.

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Culture & Methods

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Accelerating LLM-Driven Developer Productivity at Zoox

Amit Navindgi discusses the systematic shift at Zoox from fragmented documentation to an AI-driven ecosystem. He explains how they built "Cortex," a secure platform integrating RAG, multi-modal LLMs, and contributor-friendly agent APIs. He shares practical strategies for driving adoption through AI champions and hackathons, emphasizing the move from deterministic workflows to autonomous agents.

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DevOps

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Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application

Daniele Frasca explains the architectural evolution of Joyn, a German streaming giant. He discusses moving from fragile single-node setups to resilient serverless architectures using AWS. He shares insights on the Hub and Spoke pattern for data consistency, cell-based isolation to reduce blast radius, and cost-optimization strategies for achieving affordable multi-region active-active setups.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Saul Mora on Design Patterns for Mobile Development

Saul Mora on Design Patterns for Mobile Development

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Saul is an active member of the Cocoa developer community and contributes by blogging, producing NSBrief (a developer podcast, http://nsbrief.com), contributing to open source projects, and helping to teach others about the wonders and methods of developing applications.

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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.

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