Directing a Swarm of Agents for Fun and Profit Adrian Cockcroft explains the transition from cloud-native to AI-native development. He shares his "director-level" approach to managing swarms of autonomous agents using tools like Cursor and Claude ...

From NoOps to “NoDevs”?

AI coding agents are accelerating fast. Adrian Cockcroft uses AI swarms to do “days of work in 15 minutes".

💡 Shift: Spend less time coding manually, more on orchestrating AI systems.

💡 Tip: Experiment on personal projects before production.

🎬 bit.ly/41cf42I

#AI #InfoQ

#Pinterest has deployed a production-ready #MCP ecosystem, enabling #AIagents to automate complex engineering tasks and integrate internal tools.

Domain-specific MCP servers + central registry + human-in-the-loop approvals ⇒ boost security, governance & productivity.

🔗 bit.ly/4e6PnYK

#InfoQ

A #TechCareer is not short, straight, or evenly spaced - it is a long, winding, and challenging journey.

Sophie Weston shares how she grew from Junior Developer → #PrincipalEngineer, covering the skills, strategies & support that shaped her path.

🎬 Watch now: bit.ly/4sajNgk

#CareerGrowth #InfoQ

Meet Osprey - a safety #RulesEngine processing 400M daily actions & 2.3M rules/sec.

Built with a #PolyglotArchitecture:
⇨ #RustLang coordinator manages traffic
⇨ Stateless #Python workers execute logic via SML, a Python-based DSL

Learn more⇨ bit.ly/41IjU7V

#InfoQ #OpenSource #SoftwareArchitecture

Engineering isn't just about the plans you make - it's about the habits you don't notice.

Learn how to catch "invisible decisions" before they bake into your culture and code.

🔗 Watch now: bit.ly/4c38DE3

#EngineeringLeadership #InfoQ

Security and Architecture: to Betray One is to Destroy Both Shana Dacres-Lawrence explains the complex relationship between security and architecture, identifying three types of "betrayal" - physical, emotional, and trust - that lead to systemic failure. Drawi...

Security vs. Architecture: To betray one is to destroy both!

Learn how to keep #Security & #SoftwareArchitecture:
✅ Consistent
✅ Coherent
✅ Complementary
...so they reinforce each other and support your outcomes instead of undermining them.

🎬 Watch now: bit.ly/4trRhrG

#InfoQ

Failure As a Means to Build Resilient Software Systems: A Conversation with Lorin Hochstein In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Lorin Hochstein about how real-world failures provide insight into how software systems actually work. Our first topic was understanding that while automated f...

Real failures are the best teachers.

While tools are great for teaching architecture, they have a limit: they can’t replicate the "confluence of events" that happens in a live environment.

To understand how your system behaves, you need to examine production failures.

🎧 bit.ly/4tolMP9

#InfoQ

#EventDrivenArchitecture powers banking with decoupled systems, scalable services & clear activity trails.

But it introduces complexity, failure modes & operational challenges.

Discover where it truly adds value & practical patterns for reliability: bit.ly/4tk4GBO

#FinancialApplications #InfoQ

Microsoft Launches Azure Copilot Migration Agent to Accelerate Cloud Migration Planning Microsoft has launched the Azure Copilot Migration Agent, an AI assistant built into the Azure portal that automates migration planning, agentless VMware discovery, and landing zone creation. Despite ...

Azure Copilot Migration Agent is an #AI assistant built into the #Azure portal designed to simplify and accelerate the planning and assessment phases of #CloudMigration.

Works with existing Azure Migrate data.

More on #InfoQ 👉 bit.ly/4c3JdGl

#CloudComputing #Microsoft

In the #GenAI era, writing code & documentation is a commodity. Consistency & standards across an organization are now more critical than ever.

Explore Declarative Architecture - the shift from manual oversight to machine-enforceable guardrails.

Read now: bit.ly/4bX7ttz

#AIarchitecture #InfoQ

#Kubescape 4.0 is here!

What’s new in this release?
• Runtime threat detection
• A new set of AI-era security features
• Security of AI agents alongside existing scanning capabilities

🔗 Explore more: bit.ly/4vhhevM

#InfoQ #DevOps #Kubernetes #CloudSecurity #Containers #Aiagents

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Article: Event-Driven Patterns for Cloud-Native Banking: Lessons from What Works and What Hurts Event-driven architecture helps banks decouple systems, scale services, and create clear activity tra...

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What’s new in #Java?

GA releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools 1.0 and EclipseLink 5.0; the March 2026 edition of Open Liberty; 4th milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Modulith and Spring AI; a point release of Quarkus; Infinispan; and more.

Read more 👉 bit.ly/4lXHffa

#InfoQ

From Friction to Flow: How Great DevEx Makes Everything Awesome Nicole Forsgren discusses the "AI Productivity Paradox", explaining why generating code faster often makes deployment bottlenecks more expensive. She shares the DevEx framework to help architects and ...

#DeveloperProductivity isn’t just about faster builds - it’s about creating an environment where devs can do their best work.

This #InfoQ video shares a practical blueprint to:
• Identify & remove friction
• Uncover obstacles
• Win stakeholder buy-in
• Scale DevEx improvements

🎬 bit.ly/4bVScsW

#OpenAI is enhancing the Responses API to help developers build more powerful agentic workflows.

New capabilities include support for:
⇨ a shell tool
⇨ a built-in agent execution loop
⇨ a hosted container workspace
⇨ context compaction
⇨ reusable agent skills

#InfoQ ⇨ bit.ly/4sEHrlX

#AI #AIagents

WinApp CLI is a new command-line tool designed to bring common Windows application development tasks into one unified interface.

Available as #opensource, it supports developers working across multiple frameworks, including .NET, C++, Electron & Rust.

🔎 bit.ly/4dP8cj4

#InfoQ #dotnet #Microsoft

#AI has moved from experimentation ⇨ production.

As it scales, it’s outpacing legacy defenses and reshaping security. To stay resilient, orgs must tackle 3 frontiers:
🔹 Data Poisoning
🔹 AI-Driven Phishing
🔹 Shadow Cloud Governance

📚 Free Download the #InfoQ eMag: bit.ly/4sFffzA

#DevOps #Security

#Vercel 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.

🔗 bit.ly/4uLtrZc

#InfoQ #JSON #AI #OpenSource

#DigitalSovereignty = avoiding deep vendor lock-in.

Open standards & selective portability give organizations a workable Plan B – even though full independence isn’t realistic.

Read the #InfoQ article for more insights: bit.ly/4bzT5bV

#SoftwareArchitecture #Sovereignty #Governance

Harness launched Harness Artifact Registry!

A platform feature that lets engineering teams store, secure, and govern software artifacts within DevSecOps pipelines - with security, governance, and CI/CD all in one platform.

Learn more: bit.ly/4sETe3Y

#InfoQ #DevOps

State of JavaScript 2025: #TypeScript keeps rising!

• 40% now code exclusively in TypeScript (up from 34% in 2024 & 28% in 2022)
• Only 6% stick with plain #JavaScript exclusively

The trend is clear: “TypeScript has won.”

🔗 More: bit.ly/4c7JysM

#InfoQ #WebDevelopment #SoftwareDevelopment

Explore what changes when software systems start planning & acting on their own.

The core debate:
✅ Agentic systems vs. traditional automation
✅ Managing boundaries, orchestration & system design
✅ Why #AIagents are unpredictable & how to manage them

🎧 bit.ly/4bMlHO5

#AIarchitecture #InfoQ

Meet uSpec: #Uber’s agentic system for automating component design specifications

Using #AIagents & the #opensource Figma Console Model Context Protocol (#MCP), it reduces detailed documentation time from weeks ⇨ minutes.

More on #InfoQ ⇨ bit.ly/4c7tlDS

#SoftwareArchitecture #AIAssistedCoding

What’s new in #Java?

The GA release of JDK 26; LibericaJDK 26; the March 2026 edition of the Payara Platform; the 1st milestone release of GlassFish 9.0; a point release of Micronaut; and introducing ClawRunr, a new Java-based personal AI assistant (JobRunr).

Read more 👉 bit.ly/4tdb1za

#InfoQ

#AICodingTools boost individual developer output - but overall project velocity hasn’t jumped much.

Why❓ Coding was never the main bottleneck ❗

The new bottlenecks:
⇨ Specification
⇨ Verification
⇨ Human judgment

Deep dive on #InfoQ here ⇨ bit.ly/4dHjUfx

#SpecDrivenDevelopment #AIassistedCoding

Most #SwiftUI content focuses on small demos - not real-world apps with 50M users & 20+ engineers.

This #InfoQ article breaks down what it actually takes to adopt SwiftUI at scale - without breaking your team, your app, or user trust.

📰 Read now: bit.ly/47gWji4

#MobileDevelopment #iOS #Apple

AWS just upgraded Aurora DSQL with a big focus on usability, integrations, and dev tooling.

Highlights: a new interactive Aurora DSQL Playground that lets developers explore and experiment with the database directly in the browser - no signup, no cost

⇨ bit.ly/4bJUoUl

#InfoQ #AmazonRDS #Database

Configuration has evolved from static files to a live control plane that shapes system behavior.

Misconfigurations trigger major outages. Hyperscalers avoid this with
• Staged rollouts
• Validation checks
• Blast radius limits
• Automated rollback

🔗 bit.ly/47VwSCP

#InfoQ #ConfigurationManagement

#Netflix built Graph Abstraction - a high-throughput system designed to manage large scale graph data in real time.

• Millisecond latency across 650TB+ of data
• Global Availability via asynchronous replication
• Design for high-scale performance

🔗 bit.ly/47UDXDF

#InfoQ #DistributedSystems

#Stripe built “Minions” - autonomous coding agents that can complete end-to-end software tasks from a single prompt.

✅ They’re now generating 1,300+ pull requests per week
✅ All changes are human-reviewed - but the code itself is AI-generated

🔗 bit.ly/41ma4Z8

#AIarchitecture #AIagents #InfoQ