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Meet TigerFS - an experimental #filesystem that mounts a database as a directory, storing files directly in PostgreSQL.
This #opensource project lets developers & AI agents interact with it using common Unix tools such as ls, cat, find, and grep, rather than via APIs or SDKs.
Discover more: https://bit.ly/3NXmkwl
As 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐 𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲 this year, we are marking the milestone by highlighting the voices of the editors who drive our community forward.
𝐀𝐥𝐦𝐢𝐫 𝐕𝐮𝐤’s journey with InfoQ began as a dedicated reader long before he joined our editorial team. Today, based in Sarajevo, he serves as our InfoQ Lead .NET Editor.
In this video, Almir shares how this transition provided him with the platform to evolve both as a software engineer and as a public speaker.
The reader who becomes the editor is one of our favorite InfoQ stories. Thank you, Almir.
🎂 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐! 𝐒𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐧 𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐣𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧!
#Netflix’s Service Topology builds and maintains a live dependency graph across thousands of microservices.
By combining 3 separate data sources into a single queryable graph, it gives engineers a real-time view of service dependencies, helping them identify issues and accelerate troubleshooting.
Read more on #InfoQ ⇨ https://bit.ly/43hw4FM
The new #GoogleWorkspace CLI provides a unified interface to Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin & other Google Workspace APIs.
⇨ Built in #RustLang
⇨ Designed for humans & AI agent workflows
⇨ Structured JSON output
⇨ 100+ bundled agent skills
Full details on #InfoQ ⇨ https://bit.ly/4dOf0gH
The AI productivity paradox suggests that AI amplifies the abstractions it is built upon. If that abstraction is structurally brittle, it scales structural brittleness.
To build a future of reliable, high-velocity automation, we must stop scaling DOM-centric abstractions. Instead, we need a new testing paradigm grounded in Perception & Intent.
Read the #InfoQ article for a deep dive: https://bit.ly/43dcDxN
#DuckDB has announced Quack - a new remote protocol over HTTP that enables multiple DuckDB instances to connect to and work with the same database across a network.
Quack brings client-server capabilities to a database that has traditionally been local and embedded.
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4foyrOp
#Vercel just open-sourced json-render, and the numbers are staggering: 200 releases & 13k stars since launching in January 2026!
json-render is a framework that enables AI models to create structured user interfaces directly from natural language prompts.
🔗 Find out more: https://bit.ly/3PBNYPQ
Thinking about #ArchitectureModernization?
Listen to the #InfoQ #podcast with Thomas Betts & Nick Tune as they explore the essentials:
✅ when it makes sense to invest
✅ how to get started
✅ expected benefits
✅ measuring success.
🎧 Listen now 👉 https://bit.ly/3KkPZtZ
"As part of our 20th-anniversary celebration, we are sharing insights from the editors who shape InfoQ every day.
Meet Olimpiu Pop, InfoQ editor and the facilitator of the Transylvania JUG.
For Olimpiu, the true value of InfoQ lies in the community itself - a space where senior and junior developers connect, collaborate, and learn from one another.
In his video, he highlights InfoQ as a vital resource for technologists looking to stay ahead of the curve.
Thank you, Olimpiu!
🎂 Happy 20th anniversary, InfoQ! La mulți ani!
#Cloudflare traced a slowdown in its billing pipeline to contention in ClickHouse's query planning stage.
After profiling the bottleneck, the team contributed fixes to #ClickHouse that:
➤ Replaced an exclusive lock with a shared lock
➤ Eliminated per-query copying of the parts list
➤ Improved part filtering
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4fB9HCD
𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐨 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭: don't chase hype—follow the innovators & early adopters before they become the mainstream.
𝟐 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫: the tools have changed. The frameworks have changed. The architectural nightmares? Still here.
Our 20th-anniversary look at the technology adoption curve cuts through the noise, shows where the tech stack really sits today, and what's coming next:
https://bit.ly/4uVxdPg
🎂 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐!
𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟐𝟎 this year, and we're marking the occasion by hearing from our editors.
Renato Losio is an InfoQ Staff Editor, a principal cloud architect, and an AWS Data Hero. He describes his time writing for InfoQ as the best of his career.
In this video, he talks about learning to dig past the surface and stay focused on what matters to practitioners, while looking ahead to the next 20 years.
𝐁𝐮𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮, 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨. 🎂 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐!
#SoftwareArchitecture is never static - every architecture evolves over time.
The real question isn’t whether change will happen, but whether that change is intentional or accidental.
Architectural Change Cases help teams make more deliberate decisions by clarifying exactly where and how a system is expected to evolve.
📰 Check out this #InfoQ article by Pierre Pureur & Kurt Bittner to learn more: https://bit.ly/3ROXMqU
#ADR #ArchitectureDocumentation #ArchitectureEvaluation #EvolutionaryArchitecture
#NextJS 16.2 is now available, bringing major performance improvements, including up to 400% faster development startup times & up to 60% faster rendering.
The release also introduces AI-assisted development features, Turbopack optimizations, and improved error reporting.
More details on #InfoQ 👉 https://bit.ly/4ukyHSm
If you are running a #RAG pipeline on embeddings alone, you are leaving retrieval quality on the table.
To maximize accuracy, you need to:
➤ Add BM25
➤ Fuse with Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF)
➤ Consider a cross-encoder re-ranking stage
📰 Read the #InfoQ article by Aaditya Chauhan for more information: https://bit.ly/4o8GnoZ
Arm has open-sourced Metis - an #AgenticAI security framework built to autonomously identify complex software vulnerabilities.
Metis uses semantic reasoning to analyze cross-component dependencies and provides clear, natural language explanations for its findings.
🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4uTai7o
#InfoQ #AI #OpenSource #LLMs #AIagents #SecurityVulnerabilities
#OpenTelemetry just launched Blueprints - a new initiative designed to reduce the growing complexity of deploying & operating observability systems at scale.
It provides:
🔹 Prescriptive guidance
🔹 Architectural patterns
🔹 Reference implementations
Teams can deploy OpenTelemetry consistently across Kubernetes, infrastructure, applications & cloud-native environments.
Learn more via #InfoQ ➤ https://bit.ly/3ShF6A8
#GoogleCloud’s automated systems incorrectly suspended Railway's production account, triggering an ~8-hour platform-wide outage.
The incident completely took down:
🛑 The main dashboard & API
🛑 Code deployments
🛑 Active databases
... impacting ~3M users!
More details on #InfoQ ⇨ https://bit.ly/3QgyotG
Software architecture is as much about people and business as it is about technology.
This #InfoQ podcast breaks down the critical intersection of technical and social architecture.
Key takeaways:
• Business > Tech: How the company operates matters
• Focus on Outcomes: Good requirements look at problems to solve
• Embrace Constraints: Boundaries eliminate decision fatigue
🎧 Listen now: https://bit.ly/4uOK8mn
#SoftwareArchitecture #RequirementsEngineering #DDD #TechLeadership
Dynamic Workflows - a new capability in #ClaudeCode for handling complex software engineering tasks through coordinated AI agent workflows.
The feature enables Claude to:
• Generate orchestration scripts dynamically
• Break work into subtasks
• Execute tasks in parallel
• Validate results before delivering a final answer
Details here 👉 https://bit.ly/4x0rSru
Shopify has unveiled GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine replacing depth-first traversal with breadth-first execution.
Cardinal delivers performance improvements:
⚡ Up to 15× faster field execution
⚡ 6× lower garbage collection overhead
⚡ More than 4 seconds improvement in P50 latency
🔗 Learn more about the engineering behind GraphQL Cardinal: https://bit.ly/3RHwvXm
#InfoQ #SoftwareArchitecture #DistributedSystems #Performance #LowLatency #GraphQL #Microservices
It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem!
Highlights include:
➤ Lifecycle changes with two of the JEPs that were targeted for JDK 27; the GA release of Koog 1.0; point releases of Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate and JHipster; the 8th milestone release of Spring AI 2.0; and introducing Endive, a JVM-native WebAssembly (Wasm) runtime.
🔗#InfoQ News Roundup: https://bit.ly/4vIiYxB
#JDK27 #SpringAI #Quarkus #JHipster #Hibernate #WebAssembly #Wasm
Learn how #Meta migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data every day to improve reliability and operational efficiency.
The team used techniques such as reverse shadowing and continuous checksum monitoring to execute the migration with zero downtime.
🔗 Discover more: https://bit.ly/3RwcYsZ