Software engineer specializing in high-scale distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and vector search. Writing Go, designing for simplicity.
Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their configuration before upgrading to…
Continue reading on infoq.com →How to handle uncertainty with AI vendors and disaster recovery (DR) approaches to consider. An excerpt from the book Building Resilient Distributed Systems by Sam Newman
Continue reading on newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com →In this article, we are going to understand how this connection works and why a model needs help understanding the order of the words even when the words already arrive in an ordered list.
Continue reading on blog.bytebytego.com →A couple of months ago Jim Highsmith explained how practitioners writing for each other forms a distinct style of writing. He now adds a section to the article with more detail on the craft of how we write in this…
Continue reading on martinfowler.com →Naresh Jain compares coding agents building the same API service with and without a behavioral harness. A frontier model, GPT-6 Sol, passed every external evaluation either way. But a cost-optimized model, GPT-6 Luna, succeeded in only 3 of 10 unharnessed…
Continue reading on martinfowler.com →A critical remote command execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, identified as CVE-2026-73570, poses risks by allowing unauthorized access to mailbox data and credentials. This flaw, stemming from improper input sanitization, has been actively exploited. Organizations are advised to…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Once AI is in production, code arrives faster than it can be reviewed, token costs rise, evals have to be good enough to act on, and agents need permissions and guardrails. QCon AI New York 2026 (December 15-16) has confirmed…
Continue reading on infoq.com →AWS has introduced an enhanced Custom Event Bus for Amazon EventBridge, targeting a problem that often emerges when event-driven architectures move beyond a single team or AWS account: the event infrastructure itself becomes fragmented. By Craig Risi
Continue reading on infoq.com →Nicholas Herring shares how EVE Online tackles distributed tracing and observability across a 20-year-old MMO architecture. He discusses leveraging head-based, dynamic exponential moving average (EMA), and deterministic sampling techniques to maintain high system fidelity, control telemetry costs, and avoid performance…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Cloudflare has opened a closed beta of its OHTTP Gateway, a managed endpoint that decrypts Oblivious HTTP requests for an origin. The design choice drawing attention is a refusal: the Gateway will not decrypt requests arriving from Cloudflare Workers or…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Learn how to add custom instructions and skills to your repository, use custom agents, and connect MCP servers like Playwright. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to teach Copilot about your codebase appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Continue reading on github.blog →Something unusual happened in a public Sudoku experiment early this year.
Continue reading on blog.bytebytego.com →Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across its engineering organization. The company describes changes to testing, observability, rollback capacity, workload prioritization, and automated maintenance as it adapts…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Erik Peterson discusses why AI spend is eclipsing cloud bills, triggering a major software engineering cost crisis. He explains tokenmaxxing, unit economics, forced developer promotions, and why fully autonomous AI will write, deploy, and govern code by 2028. By Erik…
Continue reading on infoq.com →In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Joy Ebertz about how the use of artificial intelligence is changing the way architects and developers do their jobs. Focusing on the long term success of the business is one of the most…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Physical data layout is one of the most consequential decisions in lakehouse engineering. The author compares Liquid Clustering, ZOrdering, and partitioning across four workload types on Delta Lake, uncovering two undocumented failure modes that likely affect production systems today and…
Continue reading on infoq.com →React 19.3 was released on September 9, introducing several features including the react-dom browser() API. This API allows components to opt out of server-side rendering, addressing issues with components that rely on client-specific data. It provides a cleaner solution for…
Continue reading on infoq.com →This week's Java roundup for October 5th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs Proposed to Target for JDK 28; Lazy Constants elevated to Candidate status; the GA releases of Apache Grails 8.0 and Open Liberty 20.0.0.10; point releases of TornadoVM,…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Apple is introducing a new JSON-based format for Xcode project configuration files, replacing the traditional property-list-based format. Available in Xcode 27.2, the new format aims to improve readability, simplify maintenance, and make project configuration easier for AI coding agents to…
Continue reading on infoq.com →GitLab has released version 19.4 of its DevSecOps platform, adding a goal-driven mode to GitLab Duo CLI, three hosted open-weight models, a larger set of Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, and more detailed controls for AI spending. By Matt Saunders
Continue reading on infoq.com →Researchers from Meta, MIT, and the University of Washington introduce Context Language Models (CLMs), a new approach that enables language models to manage and edit their own context rather than relying on predefined mechanisms for summarization, compression, and information retrieval,…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Reliability management company Gremlin has announced the general availability of Foresight AI, an agentic product that analyses services for potential failures, recommends changes and reruns tests to check that a fix works. By Matt Saunders
Continue reading on infoq.com →AWS recently announced enhanced custom event buses for Amazon EventBridge, allowing organizations to share a centralized bus across accounts with ordered delivery, simplified subscriber management, event replay, content-based deduplication, and a new publisher/subscriber-based pricing model. By Renato Losio
Continue reading on infoq.com →Cloudflare has put Traces into open beta, extending automatic tracing from Workers to security rules, transformations, cache, routing and origin handling as OpenTelemetry spans. Traces accept and forward W3C traceparent headers, and Trace Rules allow targeted sampling. Pricing moves to…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Google has released Android Bench 2.0, a major update to its benchmark framework for evaluating AI models and agents on Android development tasks. The update introduces long-horizon tasks (LHTs), agent-based evaluation, and continuous scoring to better assess performance on complex,…
Continue reading on infoq.com →The barriers to building software have collapsed. Today, anyone can build. Hackathons are a great place to start learning. The post Hack the World: Why hackathons are still the best place to learn to build appeared first on The GitHub…
Continue reading on github.blog →Shopify has updated its Checkout Blocks app, transitioning five high-traffic checkout UI extensions to remote-dom using Preact and Polaris web components. The rewrite, which involved moving to TypeScript and a new API version, led to significant reductions in bundle sizes…
Continue reading on infoq.com →GitHub migrated more than 800,000 lines of Copilot runtime code from TypeScript and Node.js to Rust in about 14.5 weeks using AI-assisted development. The incremental migration used N-API interoperability, automated testing, human review, and 128 pull requests while continuing to…
Continue reading on infoq.com →As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appeared first on The GitHub…
Continue reading on github.blog →Also: do us engineers truly enjoy ‘hard problems’, or do we really just want to solve those which attract promotions, new open models launch in the EU and US, and more
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