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Featured in Development

Developing Meta's Orion AR Glasses

Jinsong Yu shares deep architectural insights into the Orion AR glasses, detailing the use of 11 custom microcontrollers for thermal dissipation, the SLAM/VIO needed for world-locked rendering, and input fusion (EMG, eye/hand tracking). He concludes with critical lessons for technical leaders on setting direction, managing complexity through testing, and strategic hardware-software co-design.

Developing Meta's Orion AR Glasses

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Architecture & Design

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Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from Over Twenty Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

Building resilient platforms requires understanding the art and science of creating infrastructure that others depend on for critical applications. This perspective applies to anyone who builds software consumed by others at scale. Whether developing infrastructure platforms, software development platforms, or messaging systems, principles address how to build software that others consume at scale

Building Resilient Platforms: Insights from Over Twenty Years in Mission-Critical Infrastructure

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AI Infrastructure

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Reducing False Positives in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Semantic Caching: A Banking Case Study

In this article, author Elakkiya Daivam discusses why Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and semantic caching techniques are powerful levers for reducing false positives in AI powered applications. She shares the insights from a production-grade evaluation with 1,000 query variations tested across seven bi-encoder models.

Reducing False Positives in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Semantic Caching: A Banking Case Study

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Culture & Methods

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AI Amplifies Team Strengths and Weaknesses in Software Development

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Jon Kern and Anita Zbieg about how AI amplifies both delivery efficiency and weaknesses in development teams, the importance of fundamental collaboration practices, and maintaining holistic system thinking.

AI Amplifies Team Strengths and Weaknesses in Software Development

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Featured in DevOps

When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas cause major outages; and abstractions meant to simplify become hidden fragility points. Success requires profiling on target hardware, relentlessly monitoring boring details, keeping hot paths lean, and trusting instrumentation over theory.

When Reverse Proxies Surprise You: Hard Lessons from Operating at Scale

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Dan North discusses an example of rearchitecting an application without rewriting it from scratch, and explains general strategies for a holistic rearchitecture such as changing the team culture, removing obsolete technologies, allowing mistakes to be made (and learned from), transitional architectures, introducing bounded contexts, refactoring and emergent simplicity, and rotating through roles.

Bio

Dan is a principal consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he writes software and coaches teams in agile and lean methods. He believes in putting people first and writing simple, pragmatic software, and that most problems that teams face are about communication. This is why he puts so much emphasis on "getting the words right", and why he is so passionate about BDD, communication and how people learn.

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QCon is a conference that is organized by the community, for the community.The result is a high quality conference experience where a tremendous amount of attention and investment has gone into having the best content on the most important topics presented by the leaders in our community. QCon is designed with the technical depth and enterprise focus of interest to technical team leads, architects, and project managers.

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