New post: wiring #CosmosDB conversation persistence into the #Citadel platform on Azure: one document per agent run, question, tool result, answer, and cumulative token counts.🛡️ sjwiggers.com/2026/07/06/microsoft-foundry-citadel-platform-azure-conversation-persistence-cosmos-db/ #azure #aiagents

Apple chose Google Cloud to run Private Cloud Compute outside its own data centers for the first time. Apple maintains its own append-only hardware ledger of Google's fleet. infoq.com/news/2026/07/apple-pcc-google-cloud/ #apple #googlecloud #privacy

A practitioner's map of Azure PaaS for integration architects: compute, integration, data, governance, and the gap agentic AI exposes. Four layers + a five-question framework. sjwiggers.com/2026/07/02/a... #azure #paas #agenticai

New post: connecting a tool-calling agent to the Citadel platform on Azure, routed through APIM, OpenMeteo weather tool, two governed LLM calls per run. sjwiggers.com/2026/07/01/microsoft-foundry-citadel-platform-azure-tool-calling-agent/ #azure #apim #citadel #aiagents

AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs. Each session gets its own Firecracker VM with suspend/resume up to 8 hours. Not a Lambda Functions update a new compute primitive for untrusted code execution. infoq.com/news/2026/06/aws-lambda-microvms/ #aws #serverless #cloud

That's a wrap on the Logic Apps agent loop series 🎉 Post 7: Application Insights, pricing, known limits, and ci/cd deployment for agentic workflows in production. sjwiggers.com/2026/06/29/logic-apps-agent-loop-production/ #azurelogicapps #agenticai #azure #enterpriseintegration

Agentic workflows need a different security model. Post 6: Easy Auth, Managed Identity, KeyVault. sjwiggers.com/2026/06/26/logic-apps-agent-loop-security/ #azurelogicapps #agenticai #azure

Cloudflare shipped agent skills for Zero Trust deployment and migration from Zscaler/Palo Alto. Open source, any AI agent can load them. #cloudflare #zerotrust #security www.infoq.com/news/2026/06...

Just deployed Microsoft Foundry Citadel platform on Azure Sweden Central: Governance hub, agent spoke, and some real pitfalls. Still in preview but worth exploring 🛡️ sjwiggers.com/2026/06/24/deploying-microsoft-foundry-citadel-platform-azure/ #azure #aifoundry #citadel #apim

AWS shipped Blocks in preview. Open-source TypeScript framework where each Block bundles app code, local mocks, and AWS infrastructure. npm run dev gives you Postgres, auth, and real-time locally. infoq.com/news/2026/06/aws-blocks-framework-preview/ #aws #typescript #serverless

AWS Graviton5 is GA. 192 ARM cores, 3nm process, formally verified VM isolation via the Nitro Isolation Engine. First hyperscaler to ship mathematically proven hypervisor isolation in production. #aws #cloud #arm infoq.com/news/2026/06/aws-graviton5-ga/

VS Code 1.123 now delays extension auto-updates by two hours. The idea: a revocation window before compromised releases reach millions of developers. infoq.com/news/2026/06/vscode-extension-update-delay/ #security #supplychain #vscode

One agent loop is powerful. Multiple working together is where it gets interesting: four multi-agent patterns in Azure Logic Apps — prompt chaining, routing, handoff, and orchestrator-workers. sjwiggers.com/2026/06/22/logic-apps-agent-loop-multi-agent-patterns/ #azurelogicapps #agenticai #azure

Azure Functions is now a serverless agent runtime. Define agents in .agent.md markdown files, trigger from HTTP/Timer/Service Bus/Teams/Outlook, scale to zero on Flex Consumption. infoq.com/news/2026/06/azure-functions-serverless-agent/ #azure #serverless #aiagents

Azure API Management Build 2026 AI gateway: three changes worth paying attention to. Unified Model API in preview, content safety and reasoning and cached token tracking added across providers. sjwiggers.com/2026/06/18/a... #azure #apimanagement #mcp #build2026

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Codex are GA on Bedrock. Pricing matches OpenAI directly, usage counts toward AWS commitments. Codex drops seat fees for pay-per-token. Anthropic's Bedrock-only advantage is over. infoq.com/news/2026/06/openai-frontier-models-aws/ #aws #openai #llm

Azure APIM now transforms requests across model providers. Clients use a single format; APIM handles Anthropic, Vertex AI, and OpenAI backends transparently. Content safety policies extended to MCP tool calls and agent-to-agent traffic. infoq.com/news/2026/06/azure-apim-ai-gateway-build/

Microsoft Discovery reached GA on Azure. AI agent teams for scientific R&D with confidence-scored, cited outputs. Majorana 2 proved it: 1,000x qubit reliability, 20-second lifetimes. 2029 quantum target. infoq.com/news/2026/06/microsoft-discovery-majorana-2/ #azure #quantum #aiagents

#Azure Logic Apps agent: Layer 1: 1,400+ built-in connectors packaged as tools Layer 2: custom connectors wrapping internal APIs Layer 3: your logic app as a tool provider for external agents via #MCP sjwiggers.com/2026/06/16/logic-apps-agent-loop-tools-connectors-mcp/ #azurelogicapps #agenticai

Before you open the Logic Apps designer, there's a decision to make. Autonomous or conversational? sjwiggers.com/2026/06/09/logic-apps-agent-loop-autonomous-vs-conversational/ #azurelogicapps #agenticai #azure #enterpriseintegration #logicapps

Microsoft Discovery hit GA on Azure. A platform for deploying autonomous AI agent teams in scientific R&D: generate hypotheses, optimize experiments, validate results, learn in a loop. infoq.com/news/2026/06/microsoft-discovery-majorana-2/ #azure #quantum #aiagents

Microsoft launched Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026. A new SKU at auto.azure.com where compute, connectors, model endpoints, and knowledge services are already provisioned. infoq.com/news/2026/06/azure-logic-apps-automation/ #azure #ipaas #aiagents

𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐 🎂 We're hearing from our editors. 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐨, our Staff Editor and an AWS Data Hero, describes his time writing for InfoQ as the best of his career, and he's already looking at the next 20. Buon compleanno! Thanks, @cloudiamo.com #InfoQ20 #DevCommunity

Twenty years ago today #InfoQ version 0.7 was officially launched 🎂

AWS quietly replaced the fat-tree network topology used in data centers for decades. The new design, Resilient Network Graphs, uses random graph theory: 69% fewer routers, 33% higher throughput, 40% less power. infoq.com/news/2026/06/aws-random-graph-data-center/ #cloud #networking #aws

Part 7 of my APIM for AI Workloads series is live: Azure API Management as MCP Gateway. APIM exposes REST APIs as MCP tools, proxies external MCP servers, and governs agent-to-agent traffic. sjwiggers.com/2026/06/05/a... #azure #apimanagement #mcp #agenticai

Part 6 of my APIM for AI Workloads series: semantic caching. APIM uses embeddings+cosine similarity to serve cached responses for similar prompts, zero tokens consumed on a cache hit. Score threshold tuning and vary-by scope strategies covered. sjwiggers.com/2026/06/03/a... #azure #apimanagement #ai

What actually happens inside an Azure Logic Apps agent loop? Post 2 in my series breaks it down into: trigger, instructions, connected model, and tools. sjwiggers.com/2026/06/02/anatomy-of-an-agent-loop-in-azure-logic-apps/ #azurelogicapps #agenticai #azure #enterpriseintegration

A trailing slash bypassed AWS HTTP API's Lambda authorizer. Same bypass enabled an unauthenticated wire transfer. Root cause: path normalization mismatch between routing and auth layers. infoq.com/news/2026/06/aws-api-gateway-auth-bypass/ #aws #security #cloud

Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice. Eight-hour outage. 3 million users affected. Dashboard, API, all deployments, all databases down. infoq.com/news/2026/05/railway-gcp-account-outage/ #cloud #sre #gcp

Azure Logic Apps has always been great at predictable, fixed workflows. The agent loop changes the contract. Post 1 of 7 in my new series on building agentic workflows in Logic Apps 👇 sjwiggers.com/2026/05/28/logic-apps-agent-loop-intro/ #azurelogicapps #agenticai #azure #enterpriseintegration

Azure Logic Apps has always been great at predictable, fixed workflows. The agent loop changes the contract. Post 1 of 7 in my new series on building agentic workflows in Logic Apps 👇 sjwiggers.com/2026/05/28/logic-apps-agent-loop-intro/ #azurelogicapps #agenticai #azure #enterpriseintegration

Microsoft just shipped Azure Linux 4.0, its first general-purpose server Linux distribution. Fedora-based, built for Azure VMs, not just container hosts. infoq.com/news/2026/05/azure-linux-4-server/ #azure #linux #cloud

Azure Logic Apps now has sandboxed code interpreters. An agent inside your integration workflow can generate Python, JavaScript, C#, or PowerShell from natural language and execute it in a Hyper-V isolated sandbox throughout. infoq.com/news/2026/05/azure-logic-apps-agents/ #azure #ipaas #aiagents

Part 5 of my APIM for AI series: load balancing and circuit breaking. PTU primary, PAYG overflow, automatic failover — and the three-state circuit breaker that stops APIM routing to a saturated backend. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/27/a... #azure #apimanagement #ai #resilience

Part 4 of my APIM for AI series: the token metric policy. Emit actual token counts to Application Insights, broken down by Subscription ID, User ID, and API ID, the foundation for cross-charging and FinOps dashboards. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/20/a... #azure #apimanagement #ai #finops

Cloudflare and Stripe built a protocol that lets AI agents create cloud accounts, buy domains, and deploy to production autonomously. infoq.com/news/2026/05/cloudflare-stripe-agent-commerce/ #cloud #aiagents #cloudflare

Anthropic published a detailed postmortem on six weeks of "Claude is getting dumber" complaints. The cause wasn't the model. infoq.com/news/2026/05/anthropic-claude-code-postmortem/ #llm #devtools #postmortem #anthropic

Commercial or open source AI gateway? New companion post to my APIM for AI Workloads series. Five decision factors, a decision flowchart, and why regulated Dutch/EU orgs almost always land on commercial with a note on the LiteLLM supply chain attack. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/15/a...

75% of organizations run legacy apps without modern APIs. AWS WorkSpaces now lets AI agents operate those apps through computer vision and input simulation, no modernization required. infoq.com/news/2026/05/aws-workspaces-ai-agents/ #cloud #aws #aiagents

New on InfoQ: #Google announced GKE Agent Sandbox and Hypercluster at Cloud Next '26. Agent Sandbox brings gVisor kernel isolation for secure agent execution at 300 sandboxes/sec. Hypercluster manages a million chips from one control plane. www.infoq.com/news/2026/05... #kubernetes #gke #agenticai

Part 3 of my APIM for AI series: the token limit policy. Enforce tokens-per-minute limits per consumer at the gateway, before requests reach your AI backend. Counter-key strategies, TPM sizing, and policy XML for both Azure OpenAI and generic LLM backends. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/11/a... #finops

The junior developer pipeline is narrowing from the bottom up. Entry-level roles are down, CS enrolments are falling, and senior engineers are drowning in AI output review instead of mentoring. New post with the data and a possible path forward. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/08/a... #ai #softwaredevelopment

The junior developer pipeline is narrowing from the bottom up. Entry-level roles are down, CS enrolments are falling, and senior engineers are drowning in AI output review instead of mentoring. New post with the data and a possible path forward. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/08/a... #ai #softwaredevelopment

Agentic orchestration is the evolution SOA has been building toward dynamic, goal-driven, and intelligent. Your existing services don't become obsolete; they become tools that reasoning agents can use. sjwiggers.com/2026/01/25/a... #agenticai #enterpriseintegration #soa

An attacker bought 30+ WordPress plugins on Flippa, planted a PHP deserialization backdoor in the first commit, and waited 8 months before activating it across 400,000 sites. www.infoq.com/news/2026/05... #softwaresupplychain #appsecurity #wordpress

AI speeds up software development, but at what cost? Skill erosion, open-source burnout, Agile under pressure. I connected the dots across three InfoQ pieces in one of my earlier blog posts. sjwiggers.com/2026/02/28/a... #aisoftwaredevelopment #aicoding

Part 2 of my APIM for AI series: securing AI APIs with a three-layer model, subscription keys, JWT validation, and Managed Identity. No stored credentials, no rotation headaches, full audit trail. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/05/a... #azure #apimanagement #ai #security

AI APIs run on tokens, not requests, and without a gateway, that cost is invisible. New post: why Azure API Management is the right control plane for AI workloads, covering PTU vs PAYG, multi-provider routing, and cost governance. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/02/a... #azure #apimanagement #ai

AI APIs run on tokens, not requests, and without a gateway, that cost is invisible. New post: why Azure API Management is the right control plane for AI workloads, covering PTU vs PAYG, multi-provider routing, and cost governance. sjwiggers.com/2026/05/02/a... #azure #apimanagement #ai