In this end-of-year panel, the InfoQ podcast hosts reflect on AI's impact on software delivery, the growing importance of sociotechnical systems, evolving cloud realities, and what 2026 may bring.
Docker has launched Kanvas, a new platform designed to bridge the gap between local development and cloud production. By automating the conversion of Docker Compose files into Kubernetes artefacts, the tool challenges established solutions like Helm ...
Intel has announced DeepMath, a lightweight agent built on Qwen3-Thinking that specializes in solving mathematical problems. To address common limitations of LLMs in math reasoning, DeepMath generates small Python scripts that support and enhance its ...
JEP 525, a highlight in the upcoming JDK 26, refines structured concurrency for clearer, safer task management. This iteration introduces a timeout callback for custom joiners, enhancing flexibility and error handling. With streamlined APIs and focus ...
Brendan McLoughlin shares a detective's framework for solving cloud infrastructure failures. He explains the "usual suspects" in the network stack - from DNS to API gateways - and discusses how to apply Richard Cook's "How Complex Systems Fail" to .. ...
Sub100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fanout, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. But longterm speed depends on culture, with teams owning p99, monitoring drift, ...
AWS has introduced Intelligent-Tiering and cross-region replication for S3 Tables to automate cost optimization and data availability for Apache Iceberg workloads. These features allow data to transition to lower-cost storage tiers based on access .. ...
Google recently published a guide outlining eight essential design patterns for multi-agent systems, ranging from sequential pipelines to human-in-the-loop architecture. The guide provides concrete explanations of each pattern along with sample code ...
This week's relatively quiet Java roundup for December 29th, 2025, features news highlighting: the GA release of Spring Shell 4.0; point releases of JReleaser 1.22.0 and Apache Camel 4.14.3; and TornadoInsight now compatible with the recent release . ...
DuckDB has recently introduced end-to-end interaction with Iceberg REST Catalogs directly within a browser tab, requiring no infrastructure setup. The new feature leverages DuckDB-Wasm, a WebAssembly port of DuckDB that runs in the browser, allowing ...