Article: Comprehension at AI Speed: Building a Context Store for Evolutionary Architecture
AI makes the first 80% of development feel fast, but hides architectural complexity until it's too late. To prevent system instability, engineering le…
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Article: Removing a Hidden Round Trip from a Multi-Region AWS API
When a series of regional outages forced a rethink of a multi-region AWS API, the team discovered that an obstacle to global failover was hiding in pl…
Article: Trade-Offs in Multi-Region Architectures: Latency vs. Cost
Adding cloud regions changes latency and cost in ways simple math can't capture. This article presents a framework from multiple launches: decompose y…
Article: Beat-Aligned Mobile Audio Streaming with Virtual Chunks and Native Playback
In this article, I describe the challenges and the design of a React Native real-time mobile beat-aligned playback system for iOS and Android. The sys…
Article: Scaling Java-Based Real-Time Systems: The Hidden Tradeoffs of Event-Driven Design
Event-driven architecture promises scalability, but in Java-based real-time systems the tradeoffs only surface in production. Drawing on a Java/Kafka …
Article: Virtual panel: Security in the Machine Age: Expert Insights on AI Threat Evolution
This virtual panel brings together AI security experts to examine the evolution of AI-driven threats, from prompt injection and data poisoning to agen…
Article: Beyond CLEAN and MVP: Architecting an Offline-first Reactive Data Layer in Android
With the Reactive Data Layer Architecture (RDLA), you establish a clear boundary between public data APIs and private, framework-specific data-source …
Article: Understanding ML Model Poisoning: How It Happens and How to Detect It
In this article, the author explores data poisoning as a threat to machine learning systems, covering techniques such as label flipping, backdoors, cl…
Article: Designing Continuous Authorization for Sensitive Cloud Systems
Most cloud systems make one authorization decision at login. Everything after runs on trust established at authentication time. For systems handling r…
We ran Composer 2.5 and 2.5 Fast across 11 skills. Surprisingly, Fast won.
Cursor just shipped Composer 2.5 and Composer 2.5 Fast. We benchmarked both across 11 engineering skills, 5 scenarios per skill, averaged across three…
Article: Governing AI in the Cloud: A Practical Guide for Architects
In this article, the author outlines a practical approach to AI governance in the cloud, covering discovery of shadow AI, data classification at creat…
Article: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Phishing: How Phishing Technique Is Evolving and Implemented
In this article, the author examines how AI is transforming phishing from a manual, targeted activity into an automated and scalable attack model. The…
Article: The Technology Adoption Curve, Twenty Years On
Today, June 8th, InfoQ celebrates 20 years. This is not a comprehensive history, but a deliberately selective look at the technologies and practices I…
Article Series: Securing the AI Stack: From Model to Production
This series provides your roadmap for the machine age, exploring how to move from vulnerable prototypes to resilient systems through layered defense, …
Article: Architectural Change Cases: A Practical Tool for Evolutionary Architectures
Architectural change cases extend architecture decision record (ADR) thinking by evaluating how decisions may evolve over time. Change cases expose hi…
Article: Two Misconfigurations That Caused Spark OOM Failures on Kubernetes
After migrating Spark pipelines to Azure Kubernetes Service, two infrastructure settings interacted destructively: spark.kubernetes.local.dirs.tmpfs=t…
Article: Why Vector Search Alone Isn't Enough: Hybrid Retrieval for RAG
In this article, author Aaditya Chauhan discusses the limitations of RAG pipelines based purely on vector search and how an internal omni-search appli…
Article: The AI Productivity Paradox in Test Automation: Moving Beyond Structural Validation to Perception and Intent
The AI productivity paradox states that AI scales whatever abstraction it is built on. If that abstraction is structurally brittle, it scales structur…
Article: Stragglers, Not Failures: How Adaptive Hedged Requests Reduce p99 Latency by 74 Percent
n fan-out microservice architectures, slow-but-completing requests accumulate across services and drive p99 latency far higher than per-service metric…
Article: Architecting Cloud-Native Kafka: From Tiered Storage Towards a Diskless Future
This article explores Kafka's transition toward a cloud-native architecture, examining how tiered storage, FinOps telemetry, elastic consumer scaling,…
Article: The Schema Proliferation Problem in Kafka and Flink Pipelines: How to Solve It
Schema proliferation builds slowly and gets expensive fast. One schema per event type feels right until there are ten tables, union queries spanning a…
Article: Kernel-Level Ground Truth: Why eBPF is Replacing User-Space Agents for Security Observability
eBPF is emerging as a preferred method for security observability over traditional user-space agents. By attaching probes directly to the Linux kernel…
Article: Building a Secure MCP Server on AWS for a Million-Company B2B Platform
We wanted to expose a B2B intelligence platform built on more than one million company profiles to an LLM client through an MCP server so a user can a…
Article: The Mathematics of Backlogs: Capacity Planning for Queue Recovery
Backlogs in distributed systems are arithmetic problems, not mysteries. This article provides practical formulas for calculating backlog drain time, s…
Article: Time-Series Storage: Design Choices That Shape Cost and Performance
Every time-series database makes a set of storage design decisions: how to lay out rows, when to compress, what to partition on. These decisions deter…
Article: Local-First AI Inference: A Cloud Architecture Pattern for Cost-Effective Document Processing
The Local-First AI Inference pattern routes 70–80% of documents to deterministic local extraction at zero API cost, reserving Azure OpenAI calls for e…
Article: Implementing the Sidecar Pattern in Microservices-based ASP.NET Core Applications
Today's applications require monitoring, logging, configuration, etc. Each of these concerns can be implemented as a component or a service. These cro…
Article: Beyond the Benchmark: A Metrics-Driven Approach to Sustained iOS Performance on Real Devices
iOS performance engineering often defaults to a mental model where performance is a property of a component. Performance is instead an emergent behavi…
Article: Three Pillars of Platform Engineering: A Virtuous Cycle
Platform engineering succeeds when reliability and ergonomics reinforce each other rather than compete. This article explores three foundational pilla…
Article: From Batch to Micro-Batch Streaming: Lessons Learned the Hard Way in a Delta Index Pipeline
This article describes how a production delta-index pipeline migrated from scheduled batch to micro-batch Spark Structured Streaming. It covers why re…