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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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AI Native Engineering

Ian Thomas shares a case study on embracing AI-native engineering within Meta’s Reality Labs. He explains the "Assess and Grow" framework, a maturity model designed to move teams from manual toil to AI-integrated innovation. He discusses real-world wins - including hitting 90% code coverage in record time - while addressing senior concerns like "code slop," review fatigue, and maintaining quality.

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Culture & Methods

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Product Thinking for Cloud Native Engineers

Stéphane Di Cesare and Cat Morris share how engineers can move from being a "cost center" to a value driver using product discovery. They explain the "Double Diamond" framework and why identifying user problems must precede building solutions. Learn to choose the right metrics, build customer empathy through shadowing, and use business context to maximize the impact of your technical work.

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DevOps

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The Ironies of A^2 I^2

J. Paul Reed discusses the "ironies of automation" - a 40 years-old concept now amplified by AI. He explains how advanced systems often make the human operator more crucial, not less, while simultaneously degrading the skills needed to intervene. Sharing real-world stories of "AI-fueled" incidents, he shares why over-reliance on AI can double recovery times and how to maintain resilience.

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InfoQ Homepage Interviews Adam Weisbart on Agile Antipatterns and Tools to Make Agile Fun

Adam Weisbart on Agile Antipatterns and Tools to Make Agile Fun

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Adam Weisbart is a Corporate Agilist. He is a Certified Scrum Trainer with CollabNet, his style is interactive and immersive and via his website he has developed a number of fun and unique Agile tools. Adam has written code, run teams, and managed companies as an entrepreneur. He helps teams transition to an Agile approach that promotes transparency, innovation, predictability and happiness.

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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.

Dec 07, 2012

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