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A new convention is emerging in the open-source ecosystem: AGENTS.md, a straightforward and open format designed to assist AI coding agents in software...

In this episode, Thomas Betts speaks with Ian Miell about how the financial aspects of a business affect how software is designed and built. If Conway’s Law...

Currently in alpha, Pyrefly is a new open-source Python type checker developed by Meta in Rust for maximum performance. Inspired by tools like Pyre, Pyright,...

Amitai Stern discusses cost-saving autoscaling topologies for OpenSearch. He explains the inherent challenges in autoscaling unstructured data systems like...

Cybersecurity has evolved, with ransomware now primarily targeting data storage and backups. To combat this, modern defense strategies focus on making storage...

Feb 18, 2026 - The panelists emphasize that data engineering is no longer just about

Uber Engineering outlines its platform-led mobile analytics redesign, standardizing event instrumentation across iOS and Android to improve cross-platform...

In this article, author Yang Li discusses the importance of precomputation techniques in databases, OLAP and data cubes, and some of the trends in using...

Jenish Shah, a back-end engineer focused on distributed systems at Netflix, provides more insights into how to handle failures in a distributed systems setup....

Google DeepMind has recently released the Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, a specialized variant of its Gemini 2.5 Pro system designed to enable AI agents to...

Feb 11, 2026 - In this article, author Abhishek Goswami shares a practitioner's playbook with development practices, that describes building agentic AI applications and...

Feb 10, 2026 - Jakarta EE 12 Milestone 2 marks the beginning of the next generation of enterprise Java. It introduces Jakarta Query, a unified query language across...

Smruti Patel discusses successful platform adoption. She explores topics including failed platform-building efforts, the three pillars of a successful...

Java SE 13 introduced text blocks as a preview feature, aimed at reducing the pain of declaring and using multi-line string literals in Java. It was...

Feb 11, 2026 - AI coding assistants promise speed, but what do they mean for quality, trust, and the architect’s craft? In this inaugural episode of Next Gen Architecture...

This eMag focuses on the current state of NoSQL databases. It includes articles, a presentation and a virtual panel discussion covering a variety of topics...

Magdalena Picariello reframes how we think about AI, moving the conversation from algorithms and metrics to business impact and outcomes. She champions...

Fabio Grätz and Thomas Wollmann discuss the MLOps Automation tool, and how it can be used to perform DevOps tasks on ML across teams.

This eMag aims to remove some of the confusion around the topic of "service mesh", and help architects and technical leaders to choose if, when, and...

Markus Kett shares a compelling alternative to traditional database systems for Java-based applications. Discover how EclipseStore, an in-memory...

Apr 30, 2025 - This eMag explores the challenges of modernizing, migrating, and scaling applications, spotlighting architectures that are redefining what is possible in...

Javier Fernandez-Ivern discusses why a high confidence change process for code bases is needed, how zero-noise diffs help close the confidence gap, and...

This eMag brings together a number of authors who have addressed the topic on InfoQ and suggests ways to identify, monetize, and tackle technical debt in your...

Feb 2, 2026 - In this article, the author diagnoses common failures in ML initiatives, including weak problem framing and the persistent prototype-to-production gap. The...

Canva created a new plugin framework to allow developers to create apps implementing custom functionality within its product. The team used iterative...

Pinterest created the next-generation asynchronous computing platform, Pacer, to replace the older solution, Pinlater, which the company outgrew, resulting in...

How can we architect software for a greener future? How can a company ensure highly reliable online stateful systems? Software architecture can be viewed from...

Marcin Grzejszczak, a veteran of observability spaces, discusses the current state of the space, including its evolution and the fine-grained details of how to...

SRE adoption is greatly influenced by the organizational culture at hand. This article describes how to assess the organizational culture in terms of...

Danyel Fisher and Liz Fong Jones discuss how they brought the theory of SLOs to practice, and what they learned that they hadn’t expected in the process.

Jonathan Lowe explains how to connect an LLM directly to a structured graph database using a rapid prototype. He demonstrates how to use sentence embeddings...

Only doing product-led work can lead to an unmaintainable system with lots of downtime. Unfortunately, getting time to work on the things that would prevent...

In this eMag, you will be introduced to the paths to production and how several global companies supercharge developers and keep their competitiveness by...

Ethics and diversity in tech

30-minute Interviews with software architects and technical team leaders

This book provides a set of essential thinking tools for understanding Agile adoption and transformation: how they differ and what you need to know to avoid...

The InfoQ trends reports provide a snapshot of emerging software technology and ideas. We create the reports and accompanying graphs to aid software engineers...

A 5-week cohort for senior architects. Apply frameworks from QCon innovators, justify decisions, and earn your InfoQ certification.

A wave of layoffs hit the software industry and changed the definition of tech culture. This article explores the situation across multiple tech companies, and...

“Tap compare” is a testing technique that allows you to test the behavior and performance of the new service by comparing its results against the old...

Version 2.14 of Linkerd, a service mesh and graduated CNCF project, has been released, with improved enterprise multi-cluster support, full Kubernetes...

See upcoming InfoQ Dev Summit conferences. Get actionable insights from senior developers sharing in-depth technical talks on today's critical software...

Gabriele Columbro, managing director of the Linux Foundation Europe, discusses the differences in the open-source landscape between Europe, China and the US....

Netflix engineers presented their architecture for a centralized data-deletion platform at QCon San Francisco, addressing a critical yet rarely discussed...

Reaping the benefits of continuous delivery is hard work! Culture, processes or technical barriers can challenge or even break such endeavors. With this eMag...

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Jennifer Davis discusses practical approaches for senior software developers and engineering leaders to navigate organizational change and build...

In healthy software teams, people feel psychologically safe to solve problems and contribute, Brittany Woods said in her talk at QCon London. She presented how...

Google has announced the availability of a new Visual Studio Code extension that connects local notebooks to a Colab runtime. This allows developers to unify...

An overview of how the InfoQ editorial team sees the Software Architecture and Design topic evolving in 2021, with a focus on what architects are designing for...

Oswaldo Ferreira discusses the history of how GitLab switched from a Rails monolith to using Feature flags, Protocol Buffers, gRPC and Go.

Microsoft’s TypeScript team has announced an experimental native port of the TypeScript compiler (tsc), dubbed tsc-go, aimed at providing 10x improvement on...

Christian Posta discusses what developer pain looks like, how much it costs, and how Istio has solved these concerns by examining three real-life use cases.

Reddit has rebuilt its core backend, migrating Comments, Accounts, Posts, and Subreddits from a legacy Python monolith to Go microservices. The migration...

Operating massive reverse proxy fleets reveals hard lessons: optimizations that work on smaller systems fail at scale; mundane oversights like missing commas...

In the book reinventing organizations Frederic Laloux researched 12 organizations who use fundamentally new ways to manage work and their employees. InfoQ...

Suhail Patel discusses how senior engineers and tech leaders must go beyond technical mastery to achieve staff-plus growth. He explains how to leverage...

When we are at the forefront of so much change, it's easy to forget that other people around us find change more challenging. This article is a reminder to...

QCon chair Wesley Reisz talks to Weaveworks' Engineer, Peter Bourgon. Bourgon discusses his work at Weaveworks, discovering and imlemeting CRDTs for...

Oct 31, 2025 - AI is no longer a research experiment or a novelty: it is part of the software delivery pipeline. Teams are learning that integrating AI into production is...

Victor Dibia shares insights into multi-agent systems. He explains their definition, demonstrates implementation using the AutoGen framework, and identifies 10...

To build great software, we need to account for perspective and relativity. Perspective is something's meaning depending on where it's observed from....

Kent Beck discusses dealing with refactoring.

At QCon London, Sam Newman - the architect who has attributed the coining of the term microservices, went back to the basics to underline the three critical...

HashiCorp has announced the general availability of Consul 1.19, introducing several improvements to its service networking platform. The latest version...

Helping dev teams adopt new technologies and practices. Written by software engineers. Read by over 1.5 million developers worldwide.

Profile-guided optimization (PGO) has emerged as a powerful technique for improving application performance by using runtime data to inform compiler decisions....

Contentsquare needed notification functionality for many use cases within its platform. The company created a generic solution spanning multiple services as...

Formula for highly performing teams is well known, isn't it? Maybe not so much, and John Clapham explains the challenges to reach high performance,...

Michael Nir provides a portfolio of field tested ideas within this practical book to enable you to better manage and lead yourself and your team.

Flowe explains how they combine metrics from many sources together in Azure to monitor Critical User Journeys and prevent downtime for a critical application.

Suhail Patel discusses the platforms and software patterns that made microservices popular, and how virtual machines and containers have influenced how...

Ying Dai shares insights from nearly four years at Roblox, detailing two pivotal migrations that transformed the company's engineering landscape. He explains...

Dec 29, 2025 - Delivery performance rarely changes in a straight line. Small degradations caused by tooling, environment instability, or team changes can accumulate quietly,...

Cloud computing is evolving through disaggregation, addressing inefficiencies of traditional architectures by decoupling compute and storage. This shift...

As AI evolves from tool to collaborator, architects must shift from manual design to meta-design. This article introduces the "Three Loops" framework...

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Implement Apache Spark, Kafka, Tensorflow, and more.

Meta has released SAM 3, the latest version of its Segment Anything Model and the most substantial update to the project since its initial launch. Built to...

Mocking gRPC services allows you to validate gRPC integration code during your tests while avoiding common pitfalls such as unreliable sandboxes, version...

In this article, authors Srikanth Daggumalli and Arun Lakshmanan discuss next-generation context-aware conversational search using OpenSearch and AI agents...

Nimisha Asthagiri explains the critical need for responsible AI in complex multi-agent systems. She shares practical techniques for engineering leaders and...

Allegro shared the details of the process it uses to manage code migrations at scale. The company combined GitHub’s Dependabot and OpenRewrite projects into...

In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, centralized architectural decision-making can become a bottleneck to delivery performance and innovation. Through...

Feb 19, 2026 - Hugging Face has launched Community Evals, a feature that enables benchmark datasets on the Hub to host their own leaderboards and automatically collect...

Starting your first project with Spring Boot can be a bit 
daunting given the vast options that it provides. This updated version of the book 
will guide...

Somtochi Onyekwere explains the architecture of Corrosion, a distributed system designed for low-latency state replication. She shares how Fly.io transitioned...

George Mao shares a deep dive into evolving a basic web application to a planet-scale, global architecture. He walks through five stages of maturity, focusing...

Software automation tools and trends

In this episode, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ discuss the current trends in the domain of AI, ML and Data Engineering. One of the...

On October 19th and 20th, AWS experienced an extended outage triggered by a failure in Amazon DynamoDB that affected most services in its most popular region,...

What Does It Mean to Be Green in IT? That's the question that begins chapter one in Building Green Software. In this episode, Thomas Betts is joined by two of...

Luca Mezzalira explains micro-frontends as a strategy to scale frontend architecture and organization. Learn the four key architectural decisions (Identify,...

AWS has expanded Amazon CloudWatch to unify log management across operational and security use cases. By integrating native OCSF normalization and Apache...

Kevin Guenther discusses the make-up of a robust UX team and breaks down examples from industry leaders who have discovered how to weave BA, UX and developers...

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Nuxt Studio，Nuxt Content网站的免费开源自托管内容管理解决方案，已经发布。这次发布标志着从之前的托管平台转变为完全自托管的方法，使开发者能够完全控制他们的内容编辑基础设施，没有外部依赖。

In this article, author Adi Pollock discusses how to enable machine learning workloads with big data to query and analyze COVID-19 tweets to understand social...

Today on the podcast, we talk about Linkerd and the larger Service Mesh space with William Morgan (CEO of Buoyant).