InfoQ
banner
infoq.com
InfoQ
@infoq.com
Helping dev teams adopt new technologies and practices through news, podcasts, QCon conferences, and InfoQ online certification.
#Postgres can handle workflow state and coordination without an external orchestrator.

🔹 SKIP LOCKED for concurrent work
🔹 Checkpoints for idempotency
🔹 Leases for crash recovery
🔹 Sleeps & approvals that survive restarts

🔗 Read the #InfoQ article: buff.ly/1XtZrtr

#Database #SoftwareArchitecture
September 16, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Software systems can collapse like buildings: one failure triggers a domino effect.

The difference? Our dominoes are hidden.

Sam Newman explains how #microservices, #APIs & database dependencies can trigger cascading failures in production.

🔗Watch now: buff.ly/9DMlOxY

#DistributedSystems #InfoQ
September 16, 2026 at 4:30 PM
~700 OpenAI agents in a cybersecurity benchmark found a way to communicate via a secret message board - exchanging 70,000+ messages in 6 days.

Instead of working independently, they coordinated exploits and shared "cheats" to help the collective.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/XRCQPtJ

#AI #AIAgents #InfoQ
September 16, 2026 at 12:36 PM
As you get more senior, architecture calls can become harder to test outside your own organization.

The InfoQ Software Architecture cohort gives you a senior peer group to do exactly that: buff.ly/w58aKQQ
Software Architecture Cohort for Senior Engineers | InfoQ
A 5-week online cohort facilitated by Luca Mezzalira. Pressure-test architectural decisions with senior engineers from other companies. Earn ICSAET.
buff.ly
September 16, 2026 at 11:00 AM
#Cloudflare’s Cache Transcoding prototype uses Zstandard to compress cache content - HTML, JSON, CSS, JavaScript - before storing it on disk.

The potential payoff: petabytes of additional effective cache capacity.

Broader testing is still needed.

🔗 Details: buff.ly/7KoTLnd

#Caching #CDN #InfoQ
September 16, 2026 at 9:45 AM
#AI is taking over the routine tasks junior devs used to learn from.

Scott Hanselman proposes a preceptorship model:
🔹 Senior devs focus on mentorship
🔹 Success = developing talent, not shipping code
🔹 Juniors learn by evaluating AI output

🎧 Full episode on #InfoQ - buff.ly/vhueWY2

#DevEx
September 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Building AI for high-stakes, regulated environments?

Prompt logs & model versions aren’t enough. True auditability requires explaining why an input produced an output - and tracing it directly to policy.

🎬 Watch Alex Porcelli’s full talk on #InfoQ - buff.ly/pOFuM4a

#AI #AgenticAI #EnterpriseAI
September 15, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Meta’s Astryx is now in beta: an #opensource React design system built with React 19 + StyleX.

🔹 150+ accessible UI components
🔹 CSS design tokens
🔹 CLI + MCP tooling for engineers & AI agents

🔗 Read more on #InfoQ - buff.ly/xuci0Zn

#React #WebDevelopment #AI #Meta
September 15, 2026 at 12:38 PM
tsgolint v7 is here, bringing Go-powered, type-aware linting to Oxlint.

➡️ 12–18x faster than ESLint + typescript-eslint
➡️ 59 of 61 type-aware rules supported
➡️ Native TypeScript 7 integration via typescript-go

🔗 Read more on #InfoQ - buff.ly/kfmJA6G

#TypeScript #JavaScript #Oxlint #ESLint #WebDev
September 15, 2026 at 9:45 AM
#Netflix reworked its Conductor workflow engine to handle workflows with up to 30,000 tasks while cutting p99 evaluation latency by ~40%!

Conductor 4.0 adds async evaluation, dynamic worker allocation, and concurrency controls.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/NGzDc5h

#Scalability #DistributedSystems #InfoQ
September 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
The real #AIagent problem? Messy enterprise semantics.

If Marketing and Finance can’t agree on “active customer,” how can an AI agent?

Models aren’t the problem. Conflicting definitions are!

🔗 Watch Fabiane Nardon’s full talk: buff.ly/TAbVpH4

#AI #DataEngineering #EnterpriseAI #AIAgents #InfoQ
September 14, 2026 at 5:35 PM
🚨 90% of enterprise AI agents are stuck in POC!

The bottleneck? Knowing when an agent is reliable enough for production.

Zhou Yu shares simulation-driven testing & evaluation strategies to move agents from POC to production.

🔗 Watch now: buff.ly/0E4c3qm

#AI #AIAgents #AgenticAI #SoftwareTesting
September 14, 2026 at 2:30 PM
vphone-cli allows developers and researchers to run a full #iOS system as a virtual machine on Apple Silicon.

Built on Apple’s Virtualization.framework for security research, reverse engineering & low-level iOS testing.

Read more on InfoQ 👉 buff.ly/pwTblFg

#Mobile #Security #AppleSilicon #InfoQ
September 14, 2026 at 12:15 PM
AI coding assistants are speeding up development - but code verification is becoming the new bottleneck.

AI-generated code boosts productivity while introducing security weaknesses & bug patterns.

Explores how to detect gaps between AI-generated behavior & developer intent: buff.ly/D3AAmzX

#AI
September 13, 2026 at 5:40 PM
CERN is moving 2,200 accelerator control machines from Red Hat-based distributions to Debian.

The transition is expected to be complete by late 2026. CERN’s other systems will continue running Red Hat and AlmaLinux.

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/JzdJYVa

#Debian #Linux #DevOps #CERN #InfoQ
September 13, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Vinoth Govindarajan (OpenAI) breaks down why every run needs a deadline, every tool needs a timeout, and how to build resilient AI systems that don't fall apart when production edges fail.

🗓️ Full talk goes live on InfoQ September 21, 2026.

#SystemArchitecture #AI #ML #InfoQ #LLMs #ProductionAI
September 13, 2026 at 10:49 AM
One #AI #DataCenter can consume more power than an entire city.

Jordan Nanos breaks down the scale:
• San Francisco: <1 GW
• NYC: ~9 GW
• Next-gen AI data centers: multiple GW

We’re not just scaling software. We’re scaling energy demand.

🔗 Watch now → buff.ly/9PAOnMp

#Infrastructure #InfoQ
September 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
#Figma built #AIagents to help its security team investigate alerts, search past incidents, check systems, and even prepare code fixes.

By learning from previous investigations, the agents cut repetitive work and help engineers resolve complex alerts ~70% faster.

🔗 buff.ly/R5MyDj9

#AI #InfoQ
September 12, 2026 at 11:15 AM
#AIagents won’t fix a broken #EngineeringCulture. They’ll expose it!

➡️ Strong culture + clear processes = productivity gains
➡️ Weak culture + brittle handoffs = bad code, faster

Fix the foundations before deploying AI agents.

🗓️ Full talk on #InfoQ: Sept. 12, 2026"

#SoftwareEngineering #InfoQ
September 11, 2026 at 7:29 PM
#jQuery still runs on ~66% of all websites!

Even with modern frameworks and native browser APIs, it remains deeply embedded across the web thanks to platforms like WordPress, Drupal, and legacy codebases.

Read the full retrospective: buff.ly/BcfWCTZ

#WebDevelopment #JavaScript #Frontend #InfoQ
September 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Swiggy built an in-house pLTV model to optimize customer acquisition via Google Target ROAS bidding:
🔹 Multi-task MLP with 350+ pre-order features
🔹 Reduced parameters by 63% while boosting accuracy
🔹 Direct integration with Target ROAS bidding

📖 Learn more: buff.ly/Wzf4ep5

#DataScience #InfoQ
September 11, 2026 at 2:15 PM
What makes a great engineer? Not just technical skill.

Adam Wachtel shares lessons on hiring for ownership, turning around teams, delegation, and how #AI is reshaping team size.

The result? Smaller, more adaptable teams.

🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/fZhyyUj

#EngineeringCulture #Hiring #TechLeadership
September 11, 2026 at 12:07 PM
#Netflix is migrating 30,000+ streaming jobs to the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler.

By moving from cluster-level to operator-level scaling, one internal team cut Flink compute costs by 58% ($1.1M/yr).

Full architecture details on #InfoQ 👉 buff.ly/RPTDh5Y

#ApacheFlink #StreamProcessing
September 10, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Writing code isn’t the hardest part anymore.

The real skill in 2026? Orchestrating an army of #AIagents.

Senior engineers are becoming AI conductors - directing agents instead of just writing code.

Watch the full talk, with transcript, on InfoQ 👉 buff.ly/UHL9nI1

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #InfoQ
September 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
AI is reshaping #PlatformEngineering, #IDPs & the #SDLC.

As code generation accelerates, the bottleneck is shifting to governance, security, compliance & deployment.

How are platforms evolving? This #InfoQ panel explores the trade-offs.

🔗 Watch now: buff.ly/6b3QW5I

#AI #DevOps #InfoQ
September 10, 2026 at 12:21 PM