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Microsoft has released a public preview of dotnetup, a cross-platform toolchain manager that installs and updates .NET SDKs and runtimes in the user’s own directory without admin rights. It tracks channels such as latest, lts, preview, and daily, reads global.json,…
Continue reading on infoq.com →TornadoVM, an open-source heterogeneous programming framework for Java has reached version 7.0. It automatically accelerates Java programs on multi-core CPUs and GPUs and provides a rich GPU programming ecosystem in Java that can be used with any mainstream JDK distribution…
Continue reading on infoq.com →AI spending has greatly increased at most companies this year, but has it actually changed shipping velocity and PR output? We analyse data from 27 companies – with some interesting findings
Continue reading on newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com →Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results. The post How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Continue reading on github.blog →In this article, we’ll look at how Shopify decided to move out of React Native and how they migrated to native mobile development.
Continue reading on blog.bytebytego.com →GitHub has released Actions Runner Controller (ARC) 0.15.0, introducing reliability, scalability, and observability improvements for organisations running self-hosted GitHub Actions runners on Kubernetes. By Craig Risi
Continue reading on infoq.com →The speakers discuss transitioning AI agents from local FastAPI prototypes to resilient production systems on Kubernetes using Ray. They share operational insights on RayCluster topology, stateful memory handling, auto-scaling on dynamic traffic, and robust control plane designs, while highlighting critical…
Continue reading on infoq.com →This week's Java roundup for October 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: three 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;…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context. The post How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code appeared first on…
Continue reading on github.blog →In this article, we will understand how Genie prepares knowledge, retrieves it, and generates answers.
Continue reading on blog.bytebytego.com →Pinterest has introduced event time-based partition finalization for its database ingestion framework. The mechanism uses Apache Flink to track event time and Apache Iceberg metadata to publish a non-regressing watermark, helping downstream jobs determine when continuously ingested CDC data is…
Continue reading on infoq.com →JDK 28 finalizes structured concurrency through JEP 543, with no API changes from JDK 27. Teams on JDK 27 only need to drop --enable-preview and recompile. Code written for JDK 25 or 26 must adapt to the R_X exception type…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Rachel Lee Nabors, former React core team member, dives into the architecture and philosophy behind local-first applications, exploring how small language models (SLMs) running directly on-device can deliver privacy-focused, low-latency, and cost-effective alternatives to cloud-hosted LLM wrappers. By Rachel Lee…
Continue reading on infoq.com →The article examines the transition from microservices to agentic AI architecture in distributed systems. Microservices allow for functional decomposition, while agentic systems focus on decision decomposition. This shift introduces new complexities in observability, reliability, and system design, highlighting the need…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Based on Gemma 4 and released under the Apache 2.0 license, Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 is a compact, open-weight, multimodal embedding model designed to make semantic search and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) more efficient while optimizing performance for on-device deployment. By Sergio…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Continuous integration provider Buildkite has introduced pipeline-scoped secrets and new Model Context Protocol tools for validating pipelines, diagnosing failed builds and repairing webhooks. The company has also added Linux arm64 support to its GitHub Actions compatibility layer and expanded OpenTelemetry…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Microsoft has released .NET 11 Release Candidate 2 under a go-live license, supported in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. The release adds incremental CBOR reading, experimental post-quantum cryptography APIs, file-based app directive improvements, NuGet package cooldowns, F# runtime async building blocks,…
Continue reading on infoq.com →NestJS version 12 has been released, transitioning core packages to ESM and adding Standard Schema validation. It updates the CLI and introduces an observability SDK. Key changes include project generation choices between CJS and ESM, improved validation options, and lifecycle…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Google has replaced its long-standing Python type checker, Pytype, with Pyrefly, an open-source tool originally developed by Meta. The decision was driven by Pyrefly's advantages, including faster and more accurate type checking, and lower infrastructure costs. By Sergio De Simone
Continue reading on infoq.com →AWS recently announced the preview of the Well-Architected Agent, a service that analyzes environments against Well-Architected best practices and provides prioritized recommendations across cost, security, performance, and reliability. The AI agent can also suggest remediation steps and review infrastructure-as-code before…
Continue reading on infoq.com →On October 24, AWS will operate its European Sovereign Cloud without a connection to the AWS Global Network backbone, with a team of EU residents and the region’s own hardware and software. AWS says neither of the two systems being…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Which chunking strategy are you running in production?
Continue reading on blog.bytebytego.com →Reverse Engineer Anything (REA) is an open-source project with over 200K GitHub stars that connects coding agents such as Claude Code and Codex to reverse-engineering tools like Ghidra, Hopper, and IDA. The project lets developers inspect compiled binaries, trace function…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Amazon has acquired DuckLabs, the company behind the analytical database DuckDB. Co-founders Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt will continue to lead the team under AWS. The acquisition aims to enhance the development and reach of DuckDB while maintaining its open-source…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Google researchers open sourced EnvHarness, a framework that dynamically adapts agent-training environments to an agent's weaknesses without modifying the agent, environment, or evaluation system. According to the researchers, this approach can improve both learning effectiveness and efficiency while helping agents…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Zod is a TypeScript-focused schema validation library that recently released versions 4.5 and 4.6. Key updates include schema compilation for faster data parsing, significant memory usage reductions, and new validation features. The library supports efficient validation processes and remains popular…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Uber has developed an automated dependency analysis system that uses RPC middleware and production metrics to correlate caller and downstream failures. The approach classifies dependencies as fail-close, fail-open, or unknown and addresses limitations of sampled distributed tracing for rare failures…
Continue reading on infoq.com →A recent InfoQ webinar examined operational challenges in deploying agentic systems. Key points included issues like semantic and embedding drift, which can lead to significant errors. Experts discussed the need for automated code reviews, continuous evaluation of models, and enhanced…
Continue reading on infoq.com →Grafana Labs is proposing a familiar reliability engineering approach for one of the less familiar problems in modern software: how to measure whether an AI agent is actually behaving well. By Craig Risi
Continue reading on infoq.com →Discover how to keep software evolvable as systems, technology, and teams shift. This edition explores agentic fitness functions for semantic drift, treating human comprehension as a core design metric, cross-cloud guardrails for regional autonomy, and aligning technical boundaries with Conway’s…
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