InfoQ

The most effective way to stop platforms from degrading? Give users an exit door. 🚪 Martin Kleppmann breaks down why data mobility and vendor competition are essential to keeping dominant tech services honest. If leaving isn't an option, user value always takes a back seat. 🔗 Full talk: https://bit.ly/4gcsEvp #BigTech #DataPrivacy #InfoQ

AI promised developer productivity. The reality is getting more complicated. According to Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience 2026: ⇨ Developers saving 10+ hours a week with AI fell from 68% to 26% ⇨ Only 28% report noticeably less friction ⇨ Engineering leaders spend more time managing and correcting AI output than developers do 🔗 Learn more: https://bit.ly/4BweRZ5 #AI #DevEx #DeveloperProductivity #InfoQ

What if architecture became executable, not just advisory? Spec-Driven Development (#SDD) shifts software engineering from writing code to defining intent. Specifications become the source of truth, while code is generated, validated, and continuously checked for architectural drift. ➡️ The shift: Engineers focus more on intent, policy & system design ➡️ The payoff: Greater architectural consistency & multi-language parity ➡️ The challenge: New complexity & a fundamental change in how engineers work Read the #InfoQ article for more insights ⇨ https://bit.ly/455AYab #SoftwareArchitecture #InfoQ

Adding agents changes more than the number of prompts in a workflow. It changes where state is kept, how responsibilities are divided, which tools each component can use, and how failures can be traced. A single agent with well-defined tools may keep the execution path easier to inspect. Multiple agents can separate responsibilities, but they also introduce coordination and handoff decisions. The useful comparison is which design makes the required behavior, authority, and recovery path clearest for a particular workflow. Lan Chu, a principal engineer with experience building production data and machine learning pipelines, facilitates the November 13 InfoQ Certified AI Engineering cohort. Participants examine agent orchestration, memory, autonomy, and control as part of their own architecture decisions. Review Lan's cohort syllabus: https://bit.ly/4BwCuR6

Can you trust AI agents with terminal access? Untrusted data can trigger prompt injections, unwanted command execution, and exposed secrets. Birgitta Böckeler explains why allowlists alone can’t patch these blind spots. 🎥 Watch the full talk: https://bit.ly/4cdniMR #AIAgents #PromptInjection #CyberSecurity #SoftwareEngineering

Are AI agents making data lakes and SQL engines obsolete? Not quite. A disaster-recovery analytics workflow combines AI agents, Parquet files, and DuckDB to deliver reproducible results without a shared lakehouse. 🔗 Here is a look at the architecture, the line between deterministic computation and probabilistic reasoning, and 4 signals that tell you when an embedded engine is enough: https://bit.ly/4sCXMZl #AI #DataEngineering #DuckDB #InfoQ

It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem! Highlights include: ➤ The proposed release schedule for JDK 28; the eMudhra Intermediate CA certificates breach; the October 2026 Critical Patch Update; Azul and BellSoft CPUs; GA releases of WildFly 42 and Apache POI 6.0; the beta release of Open Liberty 26.0.0.11; and maintenance releases of Micronaut and JobRunr. 🔗 #InfoQ News Roundup: https://bit.ly/4BNUp6f #SoftwareDevelopment

Anthropic moved its monorepo from Git to Scion to handle 25M+ daily checkouts across agentic and CI workloads. 🔹 Server-side repo operations (commits, merges, blame) via APIs 🔹 Tiered caching with >99% cache hit rates 🔹 Up to 100x faster checkouts with a 200x smaller infra footprint The trade-off? No offline independence in exchange for massive speed at scale. 🔗 Read the full analysis on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/4BwFrRC #AIdevelopment #DistributedSystems #Anthropic #Git #SourceControl #InfoQ

𝐀𝐈 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫. 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭? Code that teams don’t understand is code they can’t safely evolve. In the InfoQ eMag, 𝐸𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝐴𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒, learn how to: 🧠 Prevent cognitive debt before code is generated 🔍 Recognize early signs of comprehension decay 🤝 Turn code reviews into shared-understanding checkpoints Featuring Jacobus Meintjes, Narayana Rengaswamy, Paul Katsande & Sureshbabu Bikki Reviewed by Luca Mezzalira 📥 𝐃𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐌𝐚𝐠 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞 & 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞: https://bit.ly/4ykRqyX #InfoQ #SoftwareArchitecture #EvolutionaryArchitecture #GenAI