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Development

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A Solopreneur's Journey: From Engineer to Puzzle Master and Storyteller

Joe Cassavaugh shares his journey from software engineer to successful solopreneur with a $2M+ indie franchise. He explains how he scaled production to 10 games in 5 years, adopted Unity to boost velocity 4-6x, optimized content pipelines, and leveraged refactoring patterns. He discusses key trade-offs between corporate engineering and solopreneurship for senior devs and leaders.

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Architecture & Design

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Next-Gen Architecture Playbook: Insights and Patterns for the AI Era

This eMag examines how architects can lead with clarity in a rapidly evolving engineering world, distilling industry insights into field-tested practices for teams. Together, these stories reveal a core theme: the technology leader’s role is expanding from building systems to guiding how tech behaves and learns, while enabling engineers and organizations to bring out their best.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

From AI Agent Demo to Production: Automated Testing and Evaluation

Zhou Yu discusses why AI agents stall in demo phase and shares how simulation-driven testing solves compliance and reliability bottlenecks. Learn how Columbia and Arklex AI use synthetic user personas, trajectory entropy, and automated CI/CD pipelines to evaluate multi-turn agents, catch edge cases before deployment, and scale self-learning workflows in production.

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Culture & Methods

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Personality Over Skillset: How Adam Wachtel Builds Engineering Teams

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Adam Wachtel, CTO at Click Boarding, about hiring for personality and problem-solving over pure skillset, turning around a platform and team in crisis, and how AI is reshaping team size and composition without ending SAAS.

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DevOps

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Platform Engineering in the Age of AI

The panelists explain how platform teams adapt to support AI-assisted engineering, highlighting which capabilities belong in the platform. They discuss trade-offs between standardization and developer autonomy, while sharing strategies to manage AI tooling, security guardrails, and shifting workflows.

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Culture & Methods

Engineering Inclusion

Kevin Stewart examines the need for inclusive measures as part of building a strong engineering culture and its impact on the product development process.

Kevin Stewart
on Dec 03, 2017

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31:56
Development

Real-time Collaborative Editing with CRDTs

Nathan Sobo talks about a new library called Tachyon that draws from the latest CRDT research to enable real-time collaborative text editing in a fully distributed setting.

Nathan Sobo
on Dec 02, 2017

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45:09
Culture & Methods

Vision & Strategy - Epiphanies of a Netflix Leader

Josh Evans explores the concepts of vision and strategy - tools that business and technical leaders alike leverage to make tough decisions and smart bets that lead to breakout success.

Josh Evans
on Dec 02, 2017

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49:42
Development

How to Make a Spaceship

Julian Guthrie and Dan Kreigh tell the story of the Ansari X-Prize and discuss the construction/testing of the bullet-shaped SpaceShipOne.

Dan Kreigh Julian Guthrie
on Dec 02, 2017

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