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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

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

What I Learned Building Multi-Agent Systems From Scratch

Paulo Arruda discusses Shopify’s evolution in AI adoption, moving from simple chat tools to a sophisticated swarm of specialized agents. He explains the transition from massive "all-in-one" prompts to lean, narrow-focused agent microservices that slash task times from hours to minutes. He also shares a future-looking hypothesis on using filesystem-based adapters to solve context bloat.

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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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The Mathematics of Backlogs: Capacity Planning for Queue Recovery

Backlogs in distributed systems are arithmetic problems, not mysteries. This article provides practical formulas for calculating backlog drain time, sizing consumer headroom, and setting auto-scaling triggers. It covers key failure modes — retry amplification, metastable states, and cascading pipeline bottlenecks — plus when to shed load instead of draining.

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

AAIF's MCP Dev Summit: Gateways, gRPC, and Observability Signal Protocol Hardening

Andrew Hoblitzell
on Apr 09, 2026
Cloud

QCon London 2026: Kleppmann on Mitigating Europe's Cloud Dependency with Local-First Software

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Mar 20, 2026
Architecture & Design

From Minutes to Seconds: Uber Boosts MySQL Cluster Uptime with Consensus Architecture

Leela Kumili
on Mar 11, 2026
AI, ML & Data Engineering

QCon London 2026 Announces Tracks: AI Engineering, Building Teams, Tech of Finance, and More

Artenisa Chatziou
on Nov 03, 2025
Cloud

QCon London 2025: the Origin Story of AMQP - Advanced Message Queuing Politics

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Apr 12, 2025
Cloud

Cloudflare Enables Remote Hosting for Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Apr 03, 2025
Development

OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 Released

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Aug 01, 2023
Cloud

Microsoft Azure Event Grid MQTT Protocol Support and Pull Message Delivery Are Now in Public Preview

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Jun 24, 2023
DevOps

Traffic Protocol Analyzer Wireshark Gets its Own Foundation

Sergio De Simone
on Mar 03, 2023
Cloud

TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS

Renato Losio
on Jul 02, 2022
Development

GitHub to Phase out Support for Git Protocol, DSA Keys and Legacy SSH Algorithms

Olimpiu Pop
on Sep 27, 2021
Architecture & Design

WhatsApp Adopts the Signal Protocol for Secure Multi-Device Communication

Sergio De Simone
on Jul 21, 2021
Cloud

AWS Transfer Family Introduces Support for EFS

Renato Losio
on Jan 17, 2021
Development

Microsoft Has Open Sourced the VS Code Language Server Protocol

Abel Avram
on Jul 09, 2016
Development

Nest Opens Up Weave

Abel Avram
on Oct 02, 2015
Protocol Design and Implementation with Martin Thompson

Harry Brumleve
on Jul 27, 2014

Podcasts about Protocol

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AI, ML & Data Engineering

Somtochi Onyekwere on Distributed Data Systems, Eventual Consistency and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types

Somtochi Onyekwere
on Jan 12, 2026

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Presentations about Protocol

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Architecture & Design

From Dashboard Soup to Observability Lasagna: Building Better Layers

Martha Lambert
on Nov 19, 2025

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Development

Computer Networks: Myths, Missteps, and Mysteries

Radia Perlman
on Jul 26, 2023

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Architecture & Design

Building a High-Performance Networking Protocol for Microservices

Robert Roeser Arsalan Farooq
on Oct 21, 2019

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Architecture & Design

Interaction Protocols: It's All about Good Manners

Martin Thompson
on Apr 11, 2019

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Architecture & Design

Consensus: Why Can't We All Just Agree?

Heidi Howard
on May 18, 2018

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Mobile

Making Machines Talk in IoT Paradigm

Mehrdad Negahban Kevin Kostiner
on Jul 05, 2017

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Architecture & Design

Membership, Dissemination and Population Protocols

Sean Cribbs
on Sep 04, 2016

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Architecture & Design

Fault-Tolerant Sensor Nodes with Erlang/OTP and Arduino

Kenji Rikitake
on Jun 25, 2016

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Development

How to I/O?

Todd Montgomery
on Mar 27, 2016

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46:08
Development

Aeron: The Next Generation in High-performance Messaging

Martin Thompson
on Jan 12, 2016

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Protocols of Interaction: Best Current Practices

Todd Montgomery
on Aug 13, 2015

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Mini-talks: OS/App Inversion, Testing & Living Databases

Harry Brumleve Trisha Gee Anil Madhavapeddy Pavlo Baron
on Aug 02, 2015

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Mini-talks: Seven Deadly Sins, Nanoservices, Protocol-Layer Semantics

Michael Hendricks Daniel Bryant Arian Adair
on Jul 31, 2015

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Protocols - The Glue for Applications

Torben Hoffmann
on Jun 28, 2015

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The Changing Face of Communications: IoT, REST, & Reactive

Todd Montgomery
on Jun 21, 2015

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