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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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From Dashboard Soup to Observability Lasagna: Building Better Layers

Martha Lambert introduces the "Observability Lasagna" - a four-layer framework (Overview, System, Logs, Traces) focused on connecting layers for an optimized debugging UX. Learn practical tips for instrumentation, visualizing limits, and using event logs/exemplars to shift from general metrics to user-impact focused triaging. Essential for engineering leaders aiming for system reliability.

From Dashboard Soup to Observability Lasagna: Building Better Layers

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AI Infrastructure

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AI-Driven Software Delivery: Leveraging Lean, ChOP & LLMs to Create More Effective Learning Experiences at QCon

Wes Reisz discusses an experiment to deliver a QCon certification using a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture and supervised coding agents (Claude Sonnet/Cursor). He breaks down the 4-week serverless video transcription pipeline, RAG variations (hybrid, graph), and the process of structuring prompts for 95% AI-generated code.

AI-Driven Software Delivery: Leveraging Lean, ChOP & LLMs to Create More Effective Learning Experiences at QCon

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Culture & Methods

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The Architecture of Developer Experience: Where Product, Platform, and Operations Meet

The panelists discuss designing platform architecture where product, platform, and operations meet. Experts share best practices for reducing cognitive load, balancing core ops vs. innovation, measuring success (lead time, cost avoidance), and enabling developers through self-service and golden path deviations.

The Architecture of Developer Experience: Where Product, Platform, and Operations Meet

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Featured in DevOps

Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust

Emma Yuan Fang explains the Zero Trust mindset required to combat modern software supply chain attacks. She details security controls for dependency management, including SBOM (Software Bill of Materials), artifact signing, Git commit signing, and CI/CD hardening. Learn how to implement security gating, enforce policies as code, and manage secrets across your build and runtime environments.

Trust No One: Securing the Modern Software Supply Chain with Zero Trust

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QCon AI New York 2025

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Learn what works in AI, architecture, data, security & FinTech.

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InfoQ Homepage Presentations When Do I Need a Blockchain? A Hands-on Comparison of Decentralized and Centralized Application Development

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When Do I Need a Blockchain? A Hands-on Comparison of Decentralized and Centralized Application Development

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Michail Brynard explores the differences between apps and dapps and look at the architectural decisions behind some real-world decentralized applications, reviewing best practices and hybrid apps.

Bio

Michail Brynard leads a team of blockchain and fintech developers dedicated to building tools which enable development teams around the world to bring new products to market.

About the conference

Global Big Data Conference's vendor agnostic Global Blockchain Conference is held on April 2nd, April 3rd, & April 4th 2018 on all industry verticals(Finance, Retail/E-Commerce/M-Commerce, Healthcare/Pharma/BioTech, Energy, Education, Insurance, Manufacturing, Telco, Auto, Hi-Tech, Media, Agriculture, Chemical, Government, Transportation etc.. ). It will be the largest vendor agnostic conference in Blockchain space. The Conference allows practitioners to discuss Blockchain through effective use of various techniques.

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