Article: Virtual Threads After JDK 24: What Changed for Production Java
JDK 24 removed the monitor-related carrier-thread pinning that stalled Netflix and similar teams on Java 21. What has replaced it on JDK 25 LTS is dow…
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How to write technical posts that survive AI noise
There is a new kind of content pollution on the internet. It is clean looking. It is fast. It is confident. It is usually correct in the same way inst…
Article: Securing MCP in Production: Defense-in-Depth Beyond the Gateway
This article presents a defense-in-depth approach for securing Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployments in production. It outlines four architectural …
Article: The Hard-Stop Rule: From 3 HCM Monoliths to 120 Domain Microservices
A payroll and HR software team rebuilt three monoliths into over 120 smaller services over five years, with no dedicated migration budget. Every new f…
Article: An Evolutionary Architecture Pattern for Managing AI’s Pace of Change
Traditional API gateways assume deterministic services and simple schemas - assumptions agentic AI breaks. Discover why enterprise engineering leaders…
Article: The Self-Building Agent: A LangChain4j Experiment
The article discusses an experiment where a code assistant had to design an agentic system using LangChain4j documentation. The assistant created a co…
Article: Multi-Agent AI for Production Security Operations: An A2A and MCP Architecture in a 5G Core
The bottleneck in a mature SOC is rarely analyst triage; rather, it is the detection-engineering team's ability to keep the rule base aligned with a t…
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…
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…
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Securing Autonomous AI Agents on Kubernetes: Trust Boundaries, Secrets, and Observability for a New Category of Cloud Workload
Autonomous AI agents break Kubernetes security assumptions with dynamic dependencies, multi-domain credentials, and unpredictable resource use. This a…