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…
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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: 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: 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…
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After migrating Spark pipelines to Azure Kubernetes Service, two infrastructure settings interacted destructively: spark.kubernetes.local.dirs.tmpfs=t…
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…
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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…
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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…
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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: 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…
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…