𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎 this year, and we're marking the occasion by hearing from our…
𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎 this year, and we're marking the occasion by hearing from our editors. Renato Losio is an InfoQ Staff Editor, a principal cloud architect, and an AWS Data Hero. He describes his time…
#Netflix’s Service Topology builds and maintains a live dependency graph across…
#Netflix’s Service Topology builds and maintains a live dependency graph across thousands of microservices. By combining 3 separate data sources into a single queryable graph, it gives engineers a rea…
#SoftwareArchitecture is never static - every architecture evolves over time.
#SoftwareArchitecture is never static - every architecture evolves over time. The real question isn’t whether change will happen, but whether that change is intentional or accidental. Architectural Ch…
#NextJS 16.2 is now available, bringing major performance improvements,…
#NextJS 16.2 is now available, bringing major performance improvements, including up to 400% faster development startup times & up to 60% faster rendering. The release also introduces AI-assisted deve…
If you are running a #RAG pipeline on embeddings alone, you are leaving…
If you are running a #RAG pipeline on embeddings alone, you are leaving retrieval quality on the table. To maximize accuracy, you need to: ➤ Add BM25 ➤ Fuse with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) ➤ Conside…
The new #GoogleWorkspace CLI provides a unified interface to Drive, Gmail,…
The new #GoogleWorkspace CLI provides a unified interface to Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin & other Google Workspace APIs. ⇨ Built in #RustLang ⇨ Designed for humans & AI agent work…
Arm has open-sourced Metis - an #AgenticAI security framework built to…
Arm has open-sourced Metis - an #AgenticAI security framework built to autonomously identify complex software vulnerabilities. Metis uses semantic reasoning to analyze cross-component dependencies and…
#OpenTelemetry just launched Blueprints - a new initiative designed to reduce…
#OpenTelemetry just launched Blueprints - a new initiative designed to reduce the growing complexity of deploying & operating observability systems at scale. It provides: 🔹 Prescriptive guidance 🔹 Arc…
#GoogleCloud’s automated systems incorrectly suspended Railway's production…
#GoogleCloud’s automated systems incorrectly suspended Railway's production account, triggering an ~8-hour platform-wide outage. The incident completely took down: 🛑 The main dashboard & API 🛑 Code de…
Software architecture is as much about people and business as it is about…
Software architecture is as much about people and business as it is about technology. This #InfoQ podcast breaks down the critical intersection of technical and social architecture. Key takeaways: • B…
Dynamic Workflows - a new capability in #ClaudeCode for handling complex…
Dynamic Workflows - a new capability in #ClaudeCode for handling complex software engineering tasks through coordinated AI agent workflows. The feature enables Claude to: • Generate orchestration scri…
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…
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