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What if you treated an entire cloud provider as just another Availability Zone? Kevin Holditch breaks down how Form3 scaled resilience to the cloud level - so when a provider drops, the system doesn’t even blink. Full talk & more insights 👉 buff.ly/5SLOVJ4 #MultiCloud #CloudArchitecture #InfoQ

#AgenticAI is evolving from prompt chains to graph-based workflows and code-executing harnesses. Learn how to validate LLM outputs and choose the simplest architecture that meets your reliability, speed, and cost requirements. 🔗 Read now: buff.ly/oBXCw1B #AI #SoftwareArchitecture #LLMs

3 new InfoQ certification cohorts kick off this November: AI Engineering: • Adi Polak - Nov 12 (PST) • Lan Chu - Nov 13 (CET) 👥 High-Performing Teams: • Olimpiu Pop - Nov 17 Dates and syllabuses on InfoQ 👉 buff.ly/gBxmiU3 #InfoQ #AIEngineering #RAG #HighPerformingTeams #EngineeringLeadership

Google ran #Gemini 4 Argon unattended for 11 hours on its Agent Development Kit. The results: • 2 PRs accepted (cutting session overhead by ~40% and cold imports by 21%) • 4 PRs rejected over reliability & maintainability concerns 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/ZYyJdnv #AI #AIAgents #Python #InfoQ

#MultiCloud flexibility comes at a cost. Egress fees can add up fast. How can you cut costs? This #InfoQ article explores Backend FinOps, FOCUS cost visibility, workload placement, synchronization, and CI/CD cost governance. 🔗 Read now: buff.ly/1Dykwat #FinOps #CloudComputing #CloudArchitecture

#AI didn’t break code readability. It broke human reading capacity. AI-generated code is clean and well-documented - yet practically "WRITE-ONLY" due to the sheer volume produced. The new bottleneck? Code volume, not complexity. 🔗 buff.ly/JndOxbk #Coding #CodeReview #InfoQ #DevEx

How did #Cloudflare cut its internal load-balancing service’s memory footprint by over 100 TB? By optimizing Rust-based consistent hashing in pingora-ketama, reducing hashes per backend by ~90% while preserving load-balancing accuracy. 🔗 Learn how: buff.ly/XMG6nwd #RustLang #Performance #InfoQ

#SoftwareArchitecture is a financial option. 📈 The more uncertainty a project faces - the more valuable architectural flexibility becomes. Gregor Hohpe explains why this isn't just a metaphor - it's backed by mathematics. 🔗 Explore the full talk [transcript included]: buff.ly/6y3gvyn #InfoQ

AI makes coding faster, but shipping to production still takes weeks. But why? Nathen Harvey of Google Cloud shares DORA’s 7 core AI capabilities and how to turn AI productivity into business value. 🔗 Watch now: buff.ly/wq64Q9f #AI #DevOps #SoftwareEngineering #DORA #InfoQ

Scaling self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on #Kubernetes? GitHub Actions Runner Controller (ARC) 0.15.0 brings improvements in reliability, scalability, and observability for organizations running self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes. 🔗 buff.ly/7xfo5JJ #GitHubActions #DevOps #InfoQ

How does #Monzo run 3,000+ microservices with just hundreds of engineers? By abstracting Kubernetes and Kafka complexity behind reliable platform primitives. 🔗 Watch the full talk on InfoQ: buff.ly/84pbb24 #PlatformEngineering #DevEx #Microservices #InfoQ

Developers don’t hate documentation. They just hate the slow feedback loop: • Docs for humans: Wait a year for results • Docs for AI: Get instant feedback in 5 seconds 🔗 Watch the full video: buff.ly/wq64Q9f #DevOps #Productivity #Performance #AI #DeveloperExperience #InfoQ

Pinterest introduced event-time-based partition finalization, combining #ApacheFlink & #ApacheIceberg metadata to publish non-regressing watermarks that help downstream jobs determine when ingested data is sufficiently complete to process. 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/2I2WQEh #DataEngineering #InfoQ

#NestJS 12 is here! The latest release brings major updates: • Core packages transition to ESM • Standard Schema validation support • Updated CLI with CJS or ESM project generation • Lifecycle project hooks 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/GHU3rHj #JavaScript #NodeJS #InfoQ

It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem ➤ 3 OpenJDK JEPs targeted for JDK 28; the October 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Gatherers4j, Yupiik Fusion, Google ADK for Java and Google ADK for Kotlin; and 38 CVEs resolved in Apache Camel. 🔗 buff.ly/YvFP1JQ #SoftwareDevelopment

A brokerless design for distributed, fault-tolerant Spring Batch involves coordinate partitioning, claiming, and failover across a small-to-medium cluster using only the shared database. 🔗 Read the #InfoQ article: buff.ly/Q3H0lSC #InfoQ #Java #SpringBatch #DistributedSystems

1 field change = 5 layers touched A “simple” request can mean updating your entire stack. Explore the Change Propagation in layered architecture - and the trade-off between separation of concerns and the cost of vertical changes. 🎥 buff.ly/6y3gvyn #SoftwareArchitecture #InfoQ #FromTheArchive

In this #InfoQ podcast, Rachel Lee Nabors explores how local-first apps and on-device small language models (SLMs) can deliver more privacy, lower latency, and reduced costs without relying on cloud-hosted LLMs. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/bEMiUBl #AI #LocalFirst #LLM #Testing

Google is replacing its long-standing Python type checker, Pytype, with Meta’s open-source Pyrefly. Why the switch❓ ⇨ Up to 10x faster clean builds ⇨ 80%+ reduction in compute costs ⇨ 97% spec conformance Read more on #InfoQ ⇨ buff.ly/GSv9lyQ #Python #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #DevOps

Building AI agents? AWS open-sourced 2 projects to help: 🔹 Strands Decider 2B: Decision-making for agent workflows 🔹 Strands Box: A sandbox for controlling agent execution 🔗 Learn more on #InfoQ ⇨ buff.ly/LDxRalv #AI #AWS #OpenSource

Agile or architecture? You need both. Why? ⇨ #Agile is the steering wheel - keeps you moving in the right direction. ⇨ #SoftwareArchitecture is the engine - keeps you actually moving. Both help teams navigate uncertainty. 🔗 Watch the full talk: buff.ly/6y3gvyn #InfoQ #FromTheArchive

Helidon 27 is out! Aligned with JDK 27, this release introduces Helidon’s new Messaging and Data JDBC modules and adopts Oracle’s Tip & Tail model, while Helidon 4.5.5 stays on JDK 21. 🔗 Read the full story on InfoQ: buff.ly/lx7QkzK #InfoQ #Java #Helidon #JDK27

AWS introduces the Well-Architected Agent in preview. The AI agent evaluates AWS environments, prioritizes recommendations across cost, security, performance, and reliability, and reviews infrastructure-as-code before deployment. 🔗 Find out more: buff.ly/OVMG3ry #AWS #AI #CloudArchitecture #InfoQ

#Microservices decompose functionality. #AgenticAI decomposes decisions. What does this shift mean for the future of distributed systems? Explore the new architectural challenges in observability, reliability, and non-deterministic execution: buff.ly/b58c0q2 #DistributedSystems #InfoQ

When #Spotify standardized their codebase, their #AIagents started generating dramatically more correct code. 1️⃣ Predictable code → Faster automated checks 2️⃣ Less review load → Expanded team capacity 3️⃣ More capacity → Exponential output 🔗 Watch now: buff.ly/RsgCsaB #AI #CodeReview #InfoQ

Brendan O’Leary analyzed 40T+ tokens across 500+ models to reveal: • Why single-model setups fail • The 4 rungs of the AI Trust Ladder • How to build reliable agentic workflows 🎥 Watch the full video [transcript included]: buff.ly/kzqkbsV #AI #AIagents #SoftwareEngineering #InfoQ

Reverse Engineer Anything (REA), an #opensource project with 200K+ GitHub stars, connects coding agents like Claude Code and Codex to tools like Ghidra, Hopper, and IDA. 👉 Learn more: buff.ly/2QMWM8L #InfoQ #AI #AIagents #StaticAnalysis #ReverseEngineering

#Cloudflare’s OHTTP Gateway is now in closed beta, with one notable restriction: it won’t decrypt requests from Cloudflare Workers or Cloudflare-proxied hosts. Why? To prevent client identifiers and request contents from ending up in the same hands. 🔎 buff.ly/DtVM18a #CloudComputing #InfoQ

Finding bugs AFTER shipping code is expensive. Finding bugs BEFORE writing code is pure magic. Hillel Wayne explains how testing systems before they exist can prevent costly mistakes and save months of development time. 🔗 See how it works: buff.ly/Mp5ZdbL #Debugging #DistributedSystems #Testing

Shipt launched Kits to streamline event-specific grocery shopping, reducing complex workflows to a simple interface with real-time inventory and compliance checks for efficient customer service. 🔗 Read the #InfoQ article: buff.ly/tUFRb9y #SoftwareArchitecture #DomainDrivenDesign #ECommerce

Evolutionary architecture isn’t just about making change easier. It’s about making change safe, deliberate, and sustainable. Discover practical strategies for managing change in this #InfoQ eMag. 📘 Download for FREE ⇨ buff.ly/Ivvnv9Y #SoftwareArchitecture #SystemDesign #EvolutionaryArchitecture

Ever had an AI agent "help" a little too much because it thought it was doing a great job? Give it access to production, and things can go very wrong: ➤ Wiped production ➤ Deleted folders ➤ Lost source code 🎥 Watch the full talk: buff.ly/GdHHukv #DevOps #AIAgents #SoftwareEngineering #InfoQ

Spring Authorization Server ships inside Spring Security 7. This server-side guide covers enabling DPoP and RFC 8693 Token Exchange, the silent .dPoP() opt-in change in 7.1, and combining both safely. 🔗 Read now: buff.ly/ZF9bhjC #SpringSecurity #Java #Security #InfoQ

Vite+ 1.0 is out as a stable, MIT-licensed release. Daniel Curtis covers what the single vp command now manages, GitLab CI/CD support, and the new tsup migration path. 🔗 Read more: buff.ly/n3QoOBl #InfoQ #JavaScript #WebDevelopment #TypeScript #InfoQ

Did you know #DataCenters use as much electricity as the entire UK? We tend to blame airlines for carbon emissions, but the tech industry actually leaves a bigger footprint. 🎬 Learn how we can build a more sustainable future in tech 👉 buff.ly/lcESkZm #GreenTech #CarbonFootprint #InfoQ

#AIagents bring new risks to production. 3 challenges stand out: 🔹 AI fails by producing convincing inaccuracies, not just crashes. 🔹 Coding agents generate code faster than humans can review it. 🔹 Sensitive data can leak through prompts, context windows, and retrieved documents. 👉 buff.ly/m5Z7nsp

AI is changing how we build software. Are we thinking long term? From monoliths vs. microservices to testing, requirements & training junior engineers, AI-driven development raises architectural questions we can’t ignore. 🎧 Listen to the #InfoQ podcast: buff.ly/sWS2Wxn #SoftwareArchitecture #AI

The $15 Billion Vanity Metric 📉💸 Companies are throwing millions at AI purely because CEOs are staring at AI leaderboards - without knowing what they're actually building. "If you weren't spending money, something must have been wrong." 🔗 Watch now: buff.ly/AXoG4iQ #FinOps #AI #Budget #InfoQ

80% AI adoption wasn’t enough for Duolingo. How did it reach 100%? ➡️ Teach engineers AI’s strengths and weaknesses ➡️ Embed AI agents into daily workflows ➡️ Make AI a natural part of engineering 🔗 Watch now: buff.ly/upleKAC #AI #SoftwareEngineering #TechLeadership #InfoQ