City digital twins are mostly a data-cleaning project
The rendering is the easy part. Reconciling four departments' idea of where a road is takes years.
Software & Platforms
Tarek Nour
Tarek writes about developer tooling, build systems and the unglamorous work that keeps platforms alive.
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Stories by Tarek Nour
Automated code review is best at the comments nobody wants to write
Six months of data from three teams: the tools rarely catch architecture problems and almost always catch the tedious ones.
Open graphics drivers caught up while nobody was watching
Three years ago this was a hobby with a performance penalty. The gap on common workloads is now within noise.
Video
Inside three studios building for spatial displays
Filmed over two weeks: how teams design interfaces when there is no rectangle to design inside.
Build times became a hiring problem
A twelve-minute build does not just cost twelve minutes. It changes what engineers are willing to attempt.
Video
Chasing 30 milliseconds across four cloud gaming services
We instrumented a controller and a high-speed camera to measure real end-to-end lag, not the number in the overlay.
