#AgenticAI architecture is redefining how software is designed - and it's poised to shape the industry for years to come. Explore the key concepts, patterns, and emerging trends in this #InfoQ eMag. 📥 Download your free copy here: bit.ly/3QVm6Hl #SoftwareArchitecture #AIArchitecture #AIAgents

The gap between "it worked in the demo" and "it holds up in production" is where most AI work lives. The InfoQ Certified AI Engineering Program covers that gap. First cohort starts July 25. 🔗 bit.ly/4wjrV0p

Target built a #GenAI system to improve marketing campaign forecasting using embeddings, vector search, and LLM-based ranking to find similar historical campaigns. Discover how the system performed 👉 bit.ly/4vPljqY #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #SoftwareArchitecture #RAG #InfoQ

Elastic has open-sourced Atlas, a memory system for AI agents built on #Elasticsearch. Key features: • 3 categories of memory • MCP integration • Per-user memory isolation Atlas hit a 0.89 Recall at 10 on question-answering tasks. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/3QWmzJn #AI #AIAgents #MCP #OpenSource #InfoQ

#Swift 6.4 is here! The latest release brings improvements & performance boosts: • Up to 4× faster URL parsing • Better C interoperability • Fine-grained warning control • Improved Swift Testing / XCTest interoperability • and more 🔗 Dive into the full update: bit.ly/4bgrkEv #Apple #iOS #InfoQ

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

Built for #Java teams, #Eliya provides crash, memory, and runtime diagnostics for production workloads in regulated environments. #InfoQ sat down with Fahim Farook, Principal Architect at Asymm Systems, to break down the project's motivation, policy boundaries, and migration paths 👉 bit.ly/4at7INo

Hard lessons from scaling a Java + Kafka contact center platform: 🔹 Where event-driven architecture breaks under real-time load 🔹 The Redis-backed patterns that fixed state, latency, and cascades 🔗 Read the #InfoQ article: bit.ly/4yiD83l #Java #SpringBoot #ApacheKafka #Redis #Microservices

Ever wonder why PDF generation still feels like it's stuck in 2005? Legacy document generation is slow, tough to scale & painful to maintain. Learn how #RustLang + #Typst can deliver a 10× faster, version-controlled PDF workflow. 🔗 watch now: bit.ly/44D0i6D #SoftwareDevelopment #Performance

The AI paradox: ⇨ 78% of developers are coding faster with AI, but software delivery hasn't accelerated. Why? Review bottlenecks, governance, and traceability aren't keeping pace. Read more on #InfoQ ⇨ bit.ly/4gQ8YxO #AI #DevOps #SoftwareDelivery #Governance #LLMs #CodeGeneration

The InfoQ Certified Architect Program is for senior engineers and architects carrying a decision they’ve been sitting with for a while, finally getting feedback from people with no stake in how the answer lands. Starts August 13. 🔗 bit.ly/4wd9WZu #ICSAET

It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem! ➤ The GA releases of Hardwood 1.0 and Endive 1.0; the June 2026 edition of Azul Payara; point releases of Quarkus, LangChain4j; the first beta release of WildFly 41; and introducing Eliya JDK and more. 🔗 bit.ly/4vcIvhz

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

Vercel's Eve is an #opensource framework for building, deploying & operating #AIagents in production. It uses a file system-based project structure to organize agent instructions, tools, skills, subagents, communication channels, and scheduled tasks. Details here 👉 bit.ly/4wEHfFh #InfoQ #AI #MCP

Imagine inventing something, watching it become an industry standard, and then spending decades apologizing for it. That's exactly what computing pioneer Sir Tony Hoare did in his legendary talk, "Null References: The Billion-Dollar Mistake.” 👇

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AWS Workload Credentials Provider is an #opensource tool that automatically delivers and refreshes certificates & secrets for apps. It helps prevent outages from expired certificates and works across AWS and non-AWS environments. 🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/4arqtAF #InfoQ #CloudSecurity #AWS

The evolution of AI-driven threats: From prompt injection & data poisoning ⇨ agent abuse & AI-powered social engineering. This #InfoQ virtual panel explores: • Emerging attack patterns • Incident response challenges • Changes security teams must make 🔗 Read now: bit.ly/4oSA6OI #AI #AIsecurity

Check out this #InfoQ deep dive into the architecture of Temporal's #opensource SDKs. What’s covered: ⇨ What #RustLang helped them with ⇨ IDL and serialization choices ⇨ Handling async tasks across complex language boundaries ⇨ and more 🔗 Watch now: bit.ly/4xV2QKP #SoftwareDevelopment

𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐! 🎂 We're hearing from our community. 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐦𝐚𝐧 (Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft) shares what makes the QCon & InfoQ community so impactful. Thank you, @saraemilybergman.bsky.social! 🙌 🎂 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐! #InfoQ20 #QCon

Is Markdown holding back AI agents? Thariq Shihipar, Claude Code team, argues that #HTML's richer visualizations, color, and interactivity make human-agent communication more effective than default Markdown outputs. Read more on #InfoQ: bit.ly/4oVlI8y #AICoding #WebDevelopment #Claude #Anthropic

Cloudflare One Stack is an #opensource library of agent skills designed for planning, deploying, and managing Zero Trust environments. The best part? It includes automated migration logic for Zscaler & Palo Alto Networks. Learn more: bit.ly/4gcpQ1w #Cloudflare #ZeroTrust #CloudComputing #InfoQ

20 years of InfoQ! 🎂 We're hearing from our community. Dan Gomez Blanco: Technology moves fast, but practitioner-driven spaces help engineers learn from real experiences, exchange practical knowledge, and stay connected to what works in the real world. Thanks, @dangb.me #InfoQ20 #QCon

Using #LMs effectively starts with understanding how they behave. 5 core rules behind their behavior: 1️⃣ LMs memorize when they can 2️⃣ LMs act like a population, not a person 3️⃣ LMs aim to please 4️⃣ LMs rely on subtle associations 5️⃣ LMs learn only from what's written down 🎬 bit.ly/4aq3KVI #AI

#AI is moving upstream in the software development lifecycle. It’s used for PRD validation, design review, and code review; not just code generation. AI-powered governance layers evaluate engineering work before implementation, with humans still approving. Read more: bit.ly/4ewsQ7H #InfoQ

In January 2023, the Microsoft Azure Wide Area Network suffered a global outage. This #InfoQ video breaks down the chain of events that led to the incident and explains why the root cause wasn't DNS. Spoiler: sometimes it's BGP. 🎬 Watch now: bit.ly/4uVow6I #DevOps #IncidentResponse

If you had to watch only one software architecture talk in your lifetime, what would it be? As part of #InfoQ20, we’ve been revisiting the ideas that shaped modern software architecture. No surprise: Rich Hickey’s 2011 talk “Simple Made Easy” remains the #1 most-watched presentation on InfoQ. 👇

AWS released Blocks: an #opensource #TypeScript framework that packages app code, local mocks, and AWS infrastructure together. Built for #AIagents, it runs locally without AWS and deploys to Lambda, DynamoDB, Aurora, and Bedrock with the same code. 🔗 bit.ly/4g6eexa #InfoQ #CloudComputing #AI

How Delivery Hero successfully retired Google Analytics and migrated to an internal user-tracking platform. Learn how a simple, highly scalable architecture enabled the team to handle 10× more load while capturing 97% of tracking data. 🔗 bit.ly/4eISg0C #SoftwareArchitecture #DataAnalytics

Login-time #Authorization leaves sensitive cloud data exposed mid-session. This #InfoQ article presents a practical architecture for continuous, context-aware authorization in regulated cloud environments. 🔗 Read now: bit.ly/3QHSDAL #CloudComputing #CloudSecurity #ZeroTrust

𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐! 🎂 We're hearing from our editors Claudio Masolo: AI generates solutions fast, but it takes a human who never stops learning to tell a good solution from a bad one. That's why practitioners use InfoQ to keep that judgment sharp. Thanks, Claudio! 𝐁𝐮𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐! #InfoQ20

#OpenAI’ s Kepler is an AI data analyst operating across 600+ PB and 70,000+ datasets daily. Powered by MCP, RAG, and vector search, it autonomously finds data, generates queries, investigates anomalies, and delivers insights in natural language. 🎬 Watch now: bit.ly/4xHdVzf #AIAgents #AI

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

In this #InfoQ #podcast, Dan Fineran explores how the #eBPF “verifier” acts as a security guardrail, enabling deep observability and networking without the risks of traditional kernel modules or the slow upstreaming process. 🎧 Listen now: bit.ly/4uTWCby #Linux #Observability #Security

It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem! ➤ Point releases of Spring Tools, Helidon, JobRunr and Gradle; the June 2026 edition of Open Liberty; the 1st milestone release of Apache TomEE 11.0; 4 open-source projects join the Commonhaus Foundation; & more. 🔗 bit.ly/4vAj2Qk #InfoQ

Inside #Atlassian’s Forge Billing Architecture Streaming pipelines + idempotent processing + layered storage ensure accurate attribution, deduplication, and aggregation. Result: precise billing, near real-time visibility, and reliable reconciliation across services. 🔗 bit.ly/4vtiqMg #InfoQ

#Claude now handles ~95% of its internal analytics requests, enabling employees to query business data directly instead of relying on data teams. Success driven by strong data governance, semantic definitions, and operational discipline. 🔗 Learn more: bit.ly/4fVXNDs #AI #DataAnalytics #InfoQ

Celebrate #InfoQ20 with us by leveling up your stack! Get a practical guide to #CellBasedArchitecture - covering core principles, implementation strategies, and real-world architectural insights. 📥 Download your FREE copy: bit.ly/3P72LyF #SoftwareArchitecture #SociotechnicalArchitecture #DDD

#DataPoisoning is a real & growing threat to #AI. Attackers use sophisticated techniques to stealthily undermine ML models by injecting malicious training data. Detection is difficult, but possible with the right defenses. 🔗 Learn how to detect & prevent these attacks: bit.ly/4oLbCHa #Security

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

#dotnet11 Preview 5 is here! It brings updates across C#, the SDK, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI & EF Core. Highlights: • New C# closed classes & unions • Enhanced Blazor validation • Major .NET MAUI reliability improvements • and more #InfoQ 👉 bit.ly/4eytyjy #dotnet #CSharp #AspNetCore #EFCore #MAUI

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/

𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐! 🎂 We're hearing from our editors. 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐲 𝐀𝐥𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐝, AI, ML & Data Engineering, shares how InfoQ helps him keep up with the state of the art in a field moving this fast. Thanks, Anthony! 🙌 🎂 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐! #InfoQ20 #AI #DevCommunity

Meet TSRX - a #TypeScript language extension for building declarative, framework-agnostic user interfaces. TSRX compiles single .tsrx files to multiple runtime targets and includes scoped styles and declarative error handling. Learn more on #InfoQ ➤ bit.ly/4eH2qip #WebDevelopment

#GitHub just dropped the new #GitHubCopilot app - a desktop control center for agent-native development. Instead of letting #AIagents run as opaque background processes, this app gives developers a dedicated place to direct, monitor, and manage AI coding agents. 👉 Read on #InfoQ: bit.ly/44p3SkG

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

#StackOverflow for Agents is a beta API-first knowledge exchange built for AI coding agents. The goal: solve the "Ephemeral Intelligence Gap" - where #AIagents repeatedly rediscover the same fixes & patterns in isolation instead of sharing them through a common memory. 🔗 bit.ly/4vkvymJ #InfoQ

As you get more senior, where does outside input on architecture decisions come from? InfoQ Certified Architect Program: 4 hrs/week, 5 weeks, senior peers from other companies. Next cohort August 13. 👉 bit.ly/4vkT3fu

𝟐𝟎 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐, told through the editors who helped shape it. 🎂 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐞, our Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, has been here for 18 of those years. His takeaway: no matter how much the stack evolves, people skills remain essential. Thanks, Shane! 𝐇𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐲 𝟐𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐐! #InfoQ20

This #InfoQ article outlines a practical approach to AI governance in the cloud. Key areas covered: • Detecting shadow AI • Classifying data at creation • IAM-based enforcement • Policy-as-code implementation • Operational controls 🔗 Read now: bit.ly/3S4LKdc #AI #Governance #CloudSecurity