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Development

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Building Inclusive Mini Golf: a Practical Guide to Accessible XR Development

Colby Morgan discusses practical strategies and technical examples for building accessible and inclusive XR experiences. Learn about their core design principles, including accessibility at the start, invisible features, simplicity, and layered depth, using Walkabout Mini Golf as a case study.

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Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Comprehensive Approaches to Software Supply Chain Security

Mykhailo Brodskyi discusses critical software supply chain security risk categories relevant to FinTech and explains effective mitigation strategies. Drawing from real project case studies, he shares insights to protect systems from vulnerabilities and ensure platform security and resilience. Demo: third-party library risk mitigation through software bill of materials generation and analysis.

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AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Responsible AI for FinTech

Lexy Kassan discusses the critical aspects of responsible AI, focusing on regulatory updates like the EU AI Act and its implications for FinTech. She explains the levels of responsible AI, from ethical principles to practical implementation, including AI governance. Explore FinTech's disruptive AI response, open-source use, workforce shifts, review boards & risk frameworks.

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Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Building Tomorrow’s Legacy Code, Today

Shawna Martell shares practical strategies to effectively manage legacy code and tech debt. Learn how to lift existing code, gain buy-in for improvements, and build new systems with future maintainability in mind using encapsulation, testing, and linting. She explains the Strangler Fig pattern and provides actionable advice for creating code that ages gracefully and minimizes future headaches.

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DevOps

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Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.

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Learn practical solutions to today's most pressing software challenges. Register now with early bird tickets.

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Explore insights, real-world best practices and solutions in software development & leadership. Register now.

QCon AI New York

Learn how leading engineering teams run AI in production-reliably, securely, and at scale. Register now.

InfoQ Homepage Interviews Rod Johnson on Entrepreneurialism

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Rod is SVP, Middleware and GM of the SpringSource division at VMware. Spring was based on the code published with Rod's best-selling "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development"(2002). Rod is a member of the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC) and holds a BA with Honors in Computer Science, Mathematics and Musicology as well as a Phd from the University of Sydney.

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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.

Jun 22, 2011

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