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#OpenTelemetry launched Blueprints - a new initiative designed to reduce the growing complexity of deploying & operating observability systems at scale.

It provides:
🔹 Prescriptive guidance
🔹 Architectural patterns
🔹 Reference implementations

➤ https://t.co/2apFxiHtvV

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This #InfoQ podcast breaks down the critical intersection of technical & social architecture.

Key takeaways:
• Business > Tech: How the company operates matters
• Focus on Outcomes: Good requirements look at problems to solve
• Embrace Constraints

🎧 https://t.co/A73GoetskA

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#GoogleCloud’s automated systems incorrectly suspended Railway's production account, triggering an ~8-hour platform-wide outage.

The incident took down:
🛑 The main dashboard & API
🛑 Code deployments
🛑 Active databases
... impacting ~3M users!

⇨ https://t.co/MkoEj5SWAG

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The more senior you get, the fewer people question your architecture calls.

The InfoQ Certified Architect Program is the peer group that does.

June 10. https://t.co/GAZhmujjQD

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Shopify Reports 15X Faster Graphql Execution with Breadth First Engine https://t.co/vvLDnZjDYN by @KumiliLeela

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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate, Koog, JHipster, Introducing Endive https://t.co/mtYSjT6QhA by @mpredli

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It’s been a busy week in the #Java ecosystem!

➤ Lifecycle changes with two of the JEPs that were targeted for JDK 27; the GA release of Koog 1.0; point releases of Hazelcast, Quarkus, Hibernate and JHipster; Spring AI 2.0; Endive, and more.

🔗 https://t.co/zoDcExZZYI

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Dynamic Workflows - a new capability in #ClaudeCode for handling complex software engineering tasks through coordinated AI agent workflows:

• Generate orchestration scripts
• Break work into subtasks
• Execute tasks in parallel
• Validate results

👉 https://t.co/jcIgFWzRbA

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AI amplifies the abstractions it's built on. If those abstractions are brittle, AI scales brittleness.

To achieve reliable, high-velocity automation, we need to move beyond DOM-centric testing toward Perception & Intent.

🔗 https://t.co/XKVKfdjPZH

#WebDevelopment #HTML #LLMs

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Shopify has unveiled GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine replacing depth-first traversal with breadth-first execution.

⚡ Up to 15× faster field execution
⚡ 6× lower garbage collection overhead
⚡ More than 4 seconds improvement in P50 latency

🔗 https://t.co/rMoz5JgVyG

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#DuckDB has announced Quack - a new remote protocol over HTTP that enables multiple DuckDB instances to connect to and work with the same database across a network.

🔗 Learn more: https://t.co/GhREodqFsq

#InfoQ #AI #DataAnalytics #DistributedData

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Learn how #Meta migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data every day to improve reliability and operational efficiency.

🔗 Discover more: https://t.co/dXaUGIMW3r

#AI #MySQL #Migration #Scalability #InfoQ

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#GitHub reduced token usage by up to 62% in agentic workflows. How?

The team achieved these efficiencies by:
➡️ Pruning unused #MCP tools
➡️ Replacing MCP calls with native GitHub CLI invocations
➡️ Introducing daily audit and optimization agents

🔗 https://t.co/xxBMDnAkWA

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Building Evals for AI Adoption: from Principles to Practice https://t.co/Wy5cHyVO4Q by Mallika Rao

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Modern AI platforms don’t have to choose between deterministic precision & probabilistic exploration - they need both.

🎬 Learn how to design AI platforms that effectively combine both approaches: https://t.co/eNS0rMa3Tn

📄 #transcript included

#AI #AIPlatforms

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From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – at the Same Startup https://t.co/lG4ah2qnEz by Trisha Ballakur

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Chasing Efficient Java Development: from 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively https://t.co/TbCCiIwGsP by @gunnarmorling

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Architecting Cloud-Native Kafka: from Tiered Storage towards a Diskless Future https://t.co/NwfKnWwwOo by Viquar Khan, reviewed by @acasals

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🎙️ "Chasing Efficient Java Development: From 1BRC to Developing Hardwood AI Natively"

Recently I joined @olimpiupop on the @InfoQ podcast to talk about #Hardwood, the zero-dependency #Parquet parser for Java I've been working on this year.

Recording: https://t.co/vtEFpMtxpm

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Stragglers, Not Failures: How Adaptive Hedged Requests Reduce p99 Latency by 74 Percent https://t.co/XliA0YidXZ, Prathamesh Bhope, reviewed by @SteefJan