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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

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Time-Series Storage: Design Choices That Shape Cost and Performance

Every time-series database makes a set of storage design decisions: how to lay out rows, when to compress, what to partition on. These decisions determine cost and query performance more than the choice of database itself. This article works through those fundamentals from first principles, using widely available tools like PostgreSQL and Apache Parquet to make each trade-off measurable.

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Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact

Netflix’s Kasia Trapszo discusses the transition from writing code to scaling organizations. She shares lessons on building trust through technical clarity, aligning teams to solve the "right" problems, and using intentional documentation to scale your judgment. Learn how to move beyond individual output to create a lasting architectural legacy that empowers others to make better decisions.

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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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Testing Ajax Applications with Selenium

The Selenium develompent team briefly introduces Selenium, a web acceptance testing tool, and shows how to test Ajax applications with waitForXxxx Selenium commands, as well as how to test a simple Ajax effect - an asynchronous text update - with Selenium.

Mike Williams Jeff Xiong Josh Price
on Sep 25, 2006
Using Logging Seams for Legacy Code Unit Testing

Using logging seams you can easily create unobtrusive unit tests around legacy classes, without needing to edit class logic as well as avoiding behavior changes.

Ian Roughley
on Aug 01, 2006

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From VR to Flat Screens: Bridging the Input and Immersion Gap

Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing

Time-Series Storage: Design Choices That Shape Cost and Performance

Beyond Coding: How Senior ICs Grow Influence and Drive Impact

Evolution of a Backend for a Streaming Application

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