#Netflix reworked its Conductor workflow engine to handle workflows with up to 30,000 tasks while cutting p99 evaluation latency by ~40%!

Conductor 4.0 adds async evaluation, dynamic worker allocation, and concurrency controls.

🔗 Read more: buff.ly/NGzDc5h

#Scalability #DistributedSystems #InfoQ

The real #AIagent problem? Messy enterprise semantics.

If Marketing and Finance can’t agree on “active customer,” how can an AI agent?

Models aren’t the problem. Conflicting definitions are!

🔗 Watch Fabiane Nardon’s full talk: buff.ly/TAbVpH4

#AI #DataEngineering #EnterpriseAI #AIAgents #InfoQ

vphone-cli allows developers and researchers to run a full #iOS system as a virtual machine on Apple Silicon.

Built on Apple’s Virtualization.framework for security research, reverse engineering & low-level iOS testing.

Read more on InfoQ 👉 buff.ly/pwTblFg

#Mobile #Security #AppleSilicon #InfoQ

CERN is moving 2,200 accelerator control machines from Red Hat-based distributions to Debian.

The transition is expected to be complete by late 2026. CERN’s other systems will continue running Red Hat and AlmaLinux.

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/JzdJYVa

#Debian #Linux #DevOps #CERN #InfoQ

Vinoth Govindarajan (OpenAI) breaks down why every run needs a deadline, every tool needs a timeout, and how to build resilient AI systems that don't fall apart when production edges fail.

🗓️ Full talk goes live on InfoQ September 21, 2026.

#SystemArchitecture #AI #ML #InfoQ #LLMs #ProductionAI

One #AI #DataCenter can consume more power than an entire city.

Jordan Nanos breaks down the scale:
• San Francisco: <1 GW
• NYC: ~9 GW
• Next-gen AI data centers: multiple GW

We’re not just scaling software. We’re scaling energy demand.

🔗 Watch now → buff.ly/9PAOnMp

#Infrastructure #InfoQ

#Figma built #AIagents to help its security team investigate alerts, search past incidents, check systems, and even prepare code fixes.

By learning from previous investigations, the agents cut repetitive work and help engineers resolve complex alerts ~70% faster.

🔗 buff.ly/R5MyDj9

#AI #InfoQ

#AIagents won’t fix a broken #EngineeringCulture. They’ll expose it!

➡️ Strong culture + clear processes = productivity gains
➡️ Weak culture + brittle handoffs = bad code, faster

Fix the foundations before deploying AI agents.

🗓️ Full talk on #InfoQ: Sept. 12, 2026"

#SoftwareEngineering #InfoQ

#jQuery still runs on ~66% of all websites!

Even with modern frameworks and native browser APIs, it remains deeply embedded across the web thanks to platforms like WordPress, Drupal, and legacy codebases.

Read the full retrospective: buff.ly/BcfWCTZ

#WebDevelopment #JavaScript #Frontend #InfoQ

Swiggy built an in-house pLTV model to optimize customer acquisition via Google Target ROAS bidding:
🔹 Multi-task MLP with 350+ pre-order features
🔹 Reduced parameters by 63% while boosting accuracy
🔹 Direct integration with Target ROAS bidding

📖 Learn more: buff.ly/Wzf4ep5

#DataScience #InfoQ

#Netflix is migrating 30,000+ streaming jobs to the open-source Apache Flink Autoscaler.

By moving from cluster-level to operator-level scaling, one internal team cut Flink compute costs by 58% ($1.1M/yr).

Full architecture details on #InfoQ 👉 buff.ly/RPTDh5Y

#ApacheFlink #StreamProcessing

Writing code isn’t the hardest part anymore.

The real skill in 2026? Orchestrating an army of #AIagents.

Senior engineers are becoming AI conductors - directing agents instead of just writing code.

Watch the full talk, with transcript, on InfoQ 👉 buff.ly/UHL9nI1

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #InfoQ

AI is reshaping #PlatformEngineering, #IDPs & the #SDLC.

As code generation accelerates, the bottleneck is shifting to governance, security, compliance & deployment.

How are platforms evolving? This #InfoQ panel explores the trade-offs.

🔗 Watch now: buff.ly/6b3QW5I

#AI #DevOps #InfoQ

It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem ➤ The GA release of TornadoVM 6.0; point releases of JReleaser, LangChain4j, Java Operator SDK, JHipster, Kotlin Toolchain and Yupiik Fusion; and maintenance releases of Micronaut and GraalVM Development Kit.

🔗 #InfoQ News Roundup: buff.ly/W01plzL

Google has open-sourced Mantis - an AI agent framework for automating the software vulnerability lifecycle: from identifying and validating vulnerabilities to reproducing and fixing them.

🔗 Details here: buff.ly/6EUaMAz

#AI #LLMs #AIagents #SecurityVulnerabilities #OpenSource #InfoQ

Blume is an #opensource documentation framework that converts Markdown into a complete documentation site.

It offers simple setup, automatic SEO, document testing, flexible configurations, and easy migration from other documentation systems.

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/BNsvQuT

#WebDevelopment #InfoQ

What if #S3 data could go straight to the #GPU - with no CPU in the data path?

Meet #Vortex, an open-source columnar format built for it.

See how Vortex compares to Parquet and enables a single-copy S3-to-GPU pipeline.

🎬 Watch now: buff.ly/hK4toH5

#InfoQ #ColumnarDatabases #DataEngineering #ML

Can you use the magic to defeat the magic?

Static testing breaks when #AIagents hit real users.

Zhou Yu shares how using AI agents to simulate complex user behaviors helps test your product automatically and at scale before deployment.

🎬 buff.ly/0E4c3qm

#AITesting #InfoQ #QConAI #LLMs

Kubernetes is promoting #KYAML - a stricter dialect of YAML designed to make Kubernetes configuration more explicit, predictable, and less prone to common YAML errors.

🔗 More details here: buff.ly/CCDlbVs

#Kubernetes #YAML #DevOps #CloudNative #InfoQ

#Airbnb cut authentication code by 60% - and improved success by 2.6%.

Its Flexible Authentication system also delivers:
• 100 KB smaller web bundle
• 27% fewer duplicate accounts
• 11% lower OTP costs

🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/i9jzg3O

#InfoQ #SoftwareArchitecture #Authentication #SoftwareDesign