Shopify has unveiled GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine replacing…
Shopify has unveiled GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine replacing depth-first traversal with breadth-first execution. Cardinal delivers performance improvements: ⚡ Up to 15× faster field executi…
It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem!
It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem! Highlights include: ➤ Lifecycle changes with two of the JEPs that were targeted for JDK 27; the GA release of Koog 1.0; point releases of Hazelcast, Quark…
The AI productivity paradox suggests that AI amplifies the abstractions it is…
The AI productivity paradox suggests that AI amplifies the abstractions it is built upon. If that abstraction is structurally brittle, it scales structural brittleness. To build a future of reliable, …
#DuckDB has announced Quack - a new remote protocol over HTTP that enables…
#DuckDB has announced Quack - a new remote protocol over HTTP that enables multiple DuckDB instances to connect to and work with the same database across a network. Quack brings client-server capabili…
Learn how #Meta migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several…
Learn how #Meta migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data every day to improve reliability and operational efficiency. The team used techniques suc…
Discover how #GitHub reduced token usage by up to 62% in the agentic workflows…
Discover how #GitHub reduced token usage by up to 62% in the agentic workflows running across their own repositories. The team achieved these efficiencies by: ➡️ Pruning unused #ModelContextProtocol (M…
Modern #AIPlatforms don’t have to choose between deterministic precision &…
Modern #AIPlatforms don’t have to choose between deterministic precision & probabilistic exploration - they need both. ⇨ Deterministic tools deliver the reliability required for transactions, security…
From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO
From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO In this #CaseStudy, Trisha Ballakur shares her journey from writing code to leading an entire company at Pointz. Key takeaways: ➤ Applying core software engineerin…
Stragglers vs. Failures - Do you know the difference?
Stragglers vs. Failures - Do you know the difference? ➤ A failure is a request that doesn't complete. ➤ A straggler is a request that completes but takes too long - often caused by a backend garbage c…
When recurring 10–15 second outages made the database behind #LinkedIn’s user…
When recurring 10–15 second outages made the database behind #LinkedIn’s user feed briefly unavailable - with no useful logs - engineers turned to off-CPU profiling with #eBPF to find the root cause. …
Meet Pullfrog - an #opensource AI-powered GitHub bot designed for automation in…
Meet Pullfrog - an #opensource AI-powered GitHub bot designed for automation in GitHub Actions. Key features include orchestration for pull request reviews, issue triage, and CI remediation, all manag…
Software development is entering a new wave of automation. With over 600+…
Software development is entering a new wave of automation. With over 600+ AI-native dev tools flooding the landscape, the real challenge isn’t the technology itself - it’s the shift in our mental mode…
Schema proliferation builds slowly and gets expensive fast.
Schema proliferation builds slowly and gets expensive fast. One schema per event type seems reasonable - until you're: • Managing 10+ tables • Writing union queries across all of them • Propagating a …
#Uber updated its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near…
#Uber updated its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. By moving from hand-crafted features to a transformer-based …
Platform Engineering Labs has announced a major update to formae - its…
Platform Engineering Labs has announced a major update to formae - its #opensource #IaC platform. New capabilities include: ➤ Full Kubernetes support ➤ Native Helm integration ➤ Direct .tfvars compati…
This #InfoQ article examines how #ApacheKafka is evolving toward a #CloudNative…
This #InfoQ article examines how #ApacheKafka is evolving toward a #CloudNative architecture through tiered storage, elastic consumers, virtual clusters, and diskless storage proposals. Read now: http…
#TamboUI - the first modern Java TUI library.
#TamboUI - the first modern Java TUI library. It promises support ranging from low-level terminal drawing to high-level APIs, including components and event handling. Now at v0.3.0, it’s already being…
#Microsoft has introduced MDASH: a multi-model agentic security platform…
#Microsoft has introduced MDASH: a multi-model agentic security platform designed to automate large-scale code auditing across Windows and other Microsoft software environments. The system combines 10…
A flurry of activity hit the #OpenJDK ecosystem this week!
A flurry of activity hit the #OpenJDK ecosystem this week! Quick highlights: 🔹 3 JEPs moved from Proposed to Targeted, while another 3 advanced from Candidate to Proposed to Target for JDK 27 🔹 The pr…
Every Tuesday, the InfoQ Weekly Newsletter cuts through the noise!
Every Tuesday, the InfoQ Weekly Newsletter cuts through the noise! No fluff. No hype cycles. Just a sharp round-up of what senior engineers & tech leaders are actually reading across AI, Cloud Computi…
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