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Explore the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, including large language models, generative AI, computer vision, and neural network architectures. Learn about cutting-edge research and practical applications.
Step-by-step tutorials on implementing AI solutions, from data preparation to production deployment. Comprehensive guides on MLOps, model optimization, and best practices for building enterprise-grade AI systems.
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Launch iOS, Android, and React Native apps with the product, backend, analytics, and release support needed to scale after v1.
Work with builders who can turn strategy into shipped AI products, production architecture, and measurable rollout plans.
Create production AI apps and agent workflows with tools, memory, guardrails, and operator controls from day one.
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping the software development landscape. AI-assisted coding tools and large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being integrated into everyday engineering workflows, helping developers accelerate
Share this article Payments used to be simpler from a developer's point of view. You connected a gateway, sent a transaction, waited for the response, and handled the result. That model does not scale very well in 2026. Modern online busine
Share this article Refactoring a large codebase with an AI coding assistant sounds straightforward until it isn't. Claude Code's Plan Mode addresses these failures directly by enforcing a read-first workflow that separates the reasoning pha
Share this article How to Route DeepSeek-V3 Through Claude Code 1. **Verify** that DeepSeek's API endpoint supports Anthropic Messages API schema (or plan to use a translation proxy like LiteLLM). 2. **Install** Node.js v18+ and the Claude
Share this article Running DeepSeek models locally in 2026 offers cost savings and data privacy, but GPU VRAM is the single constraint that determines whether a model runs, crawls, or crashes outright. This guide provides a concrete sizing
For the past few years, prompt engineering has been one of the most discussed topics in artificial intelligence. Developers shared prompt templates. Companies hired prompt engineers. Social media became filled with examples of carefully cra
When I first started exploring artificial intelligence, I assumed building an AI product was relatively straightforward. The process seemed simple. Connect an AI model to an application, send prompts, receive responses, and display the resu
Transitioning from a "Compliancе-First" approach to a "Risk-First" mindset rеcognizеs that compliancе should not be viеwеd in isolation, but as a componеnt of a broadеr risk managеmеnt strategy.
Staff engineers impact incidents by modeling transparent and productive, serving as incident commanders to coordinate response, and getting involved in retrospectives to address root cultural issues.
Discover Java persistence patterns: Driver, Mapper, DAO, Active Record, Repository. Balance layers and optimize data flow.
Build organizational resilience to incidents through improved coordination and communication, blameless reviews, root cause analysis, and insightful communication to enable meaningful change.
In this article, we will discuss what problems we had to solve at Twilio to efficiently build a resilient and scalable asynchronous system and the advantages we got adopting Workflow Orchestration.
In this article, we address the most contentious parts of the SemVer standard to understand how you can trade off backward compatibility and upgradability with modernization and iterability.
In this article, authors Numa Dhamani and Maggie Engler discuss how prompt engineering techniques can help use the large language models (LLMs) more effectively to achieve better results.
Discover the evolution of cloud-computing in the post-serverless era, with a shift towards hyper-specialized vertical services and a trend from Infrastructure as Code to Composition as Code.
Organizations should empower staff to determine where generative AI makes sense, while building literacy on capabilities and limits. A human-centric, iterative approach will produce the best outcomes.
The Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) is the architectural complement to a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). The MVA and MVP must evolve together for a product to be successful.
This article explores how and which parts of coaching and nuanced language can help you leverage your interactions to yield better results in product management using a solution-focused approach.
The main focus of this article is the effective implementation of data residency strategies while ensuring a positive experience for all stakeholders.
Understand idempotence in AWS serverless setups, tackling challenges from at-least-once delivery. Learn to implement and automate idempotence in AWS Lambda functions for reliability
As DevOps has evolved from nice to have to must have, organizations need to evolve their practices using site reliability and platform engineering. Getting the balance right is hard and necessary.
Spring Framework 6.1 and Spring Boot 3.2 run on Java 21, make concurrent programming simpler and more efficient with virtual threads, and initially support “Scale to Zero” startup time with CRaC.
To maximize engineering productivity during constant change, leaders can support their teams by learning how to use some leadership frameworks to adjust based on the context and situation.
The article examines how generative AI impacts fraud detection by reducing false positives and adapting to evolving fraud patterns, offering a potent solution when combined with machine learning.
There’s always more to do than is possible to get done, it's important for work to flow effectively. This article discusses 4 steps to achieving operational flow and improving quality in tech teams.
Besides performance improvements, PHP 8.3 brings a many new features, including amendments to the existing readonly feature; explicitly-typed class constants; a new #[\\Override] attribute, and more.
As an engineering manager, it is your responsibility to help facilitate creative thinking skills among the development team,. This article provides concrete advice on ways to encourage creativity.
The rising popularity of managed relational databases brings hidden costs. This article shows the importance of monitoring service expenses and understanding operational constraints.
Testing machine learning systems is different. Machine Learning applications consist of a few lines of code, with complex networks of weighted data points. The data is where you find issues and bugs.
When it comes to software architecture, should you adopt an agile or a lean approach? The answer, of course, is "it depends," as each approach is best suited to different circumstances.
We show how to write advanced macros to step through Rust code and modify it using the standard tooling available in the syn crate and the Fold trait to recursively step through the entire function.
This article examines how Comcast has employed the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework, and adapted it for making technical and non-technical decisions both large and small.
The AWS Lamda under the Hood article starts with an introduction to Lambda itself to outline the key concepts of the service and its fundamentals with a deep dive into understanding the system.
This article presents zero-knowledge proofs, a kind of cryptography used to provide the proof of a secret, such as a private key or the solution to a problem, without sharing it to interested parties.
In this virtual panel, we explore what made people decide to become a leader and how they did it, and we'll find out if we really have to leave tech forever or if there's a way back into engineering.
Discover how Cloudflare leverages distributed PostgreSQL clusters at the edge, tackling challenges like replication lag. The cross-region architecture ensures resilience and quick failovers.
Cellular architecture is a design pattern that helps achieve high availability in multi-tenant applications.
In this article, Diwan shares how the Netflix membership team does distributed systems: the architecture bets, technology choices, and operational semantics.
Aayush Mudgal of Pinterest presented a session at QCon San Francisco 2023 on Unpacking how Ad Ranking Works at Pinterest, showing how Pinterest uses deep learning for targeting advertisements.
At QCon San Francisco 2023, Ben Hartshorne talked about integrating technical debt resolutions into a roadmap. It is essential to articulate tech-debt value beyond just calling them technical fixes.
In this article, author Ashley Davis discusses how to add a natural language interface to a chatbot application and how to extend the chatbot by adding voice commands.
The InfoQ Trends Reports offer InfoQ readers a comprehensive overview of key topics worthy of attention. Our accompanying podcast features discussions digging deeper into some of the trends.
InfoQ encourages software practitioners and domain experts to submit full-length technical educational articles.
The Culture & Methods Trends in 2024 cover the value of staff plus engineers, DevEx metrics, ways to make remote teams effective, challenges with diversity and software development impact on climate.
The article advocates using modern libraries and Testcontainers to facilitate data-driven testing in Java for robust Jakarta Data and Jakarta NoSQL applications.
Discover how Fluent Bit, a lightweight tool for collecting and distributing logs, enhances multi-cloud observability, reducing egress costs, and addressing compliance challenges.
When DRY is applied to test code, it can cause the tests to become brittle. In this article, I will present guidelines to follow when reducing duplication in tests, and better ways to DRY up tests.
In this article, we show what Git provides for account configuration, its limitations, and the solution to switch accounts automatically based on a project parent directory location.
Just as a Minimum-Viable Architecture (MVA) approach does not create a system’s architecture in a single step, adopting an MVA approach takes a series of incremental steps as well.
Many developers use CSS frameworks to reduce boilerplate, increase quality, and drive consistency. This sounds good in theory but often fails in practice. Write custom CSS instead.
WebAssembly evolves beyond browsers, fostering a polyglot environment where languages like Rust, Python, and JavaScript can interoperate seamlessly using the WebAssembly Component Model (WCM).
This insightful InfoQ article dispels the common myths surrounding Lambda Cold Starts, a widely discussed topic in the serverless computing community.
In this virtual panel, we'll discuss how engineering managers support teams, what skills they possess, and how they establish alignment and foster knowledge and experience sharing between teams.
Your CI/CD pipeline can potentially expose sensitive information. Project teams often overlook the importance of securing their pipelines.
Building reliable stateful services at scale isn’t a matter of building reliability into the servers, the clients, or the APIs in isolation.
In this article, I will share key lessons I have learned while building and delivering three platforms over the last two decades, including where we got stuck and how we unblocked ourselves.
This article describes an experiment that sought to determine if no-cost LLM-based code generation tools can improve developer productivity.
Carta harnesses the power of a small group of senior engineers called navigators to bridge the gap between global strategy and local decision-making, using a written engineering strategy.
The RIG model formulates three rules for a saga call chain. A gamified RIG tool can be used by teams to model a microservice system that guarantees eventual data consistency.
To architect is to be a frustrated perfectionist; a good architecture minimizes this unhappiness by making trade-offs that can be lived with.
A single line of code can shape an organization's financial future. Erik Peterson, the CTO and founder at CloudZero, presented an engineering perspective on cloud cost optimization at QCon SF.
Spring Boot is a framework for its agility and workflow. Yet, configuration is a factor for deployment and maintenance. ConfigMaps provides configuration strategies for Spring Boot applications.
Web apps provide the best experience when they load quickly and data appears as available. We review how to use streaming HTML to load pages quickly and display data asynchronously without JavaScript.
In this virtual panel, we’ll discuss how teams build platforms, set others up for success, work with developers who use their platform, measure their progress, and adapt to new challenges.
In this article, we will explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices that will help you achieve seamless log management in your Kubernetes environment.
In this article, we will walk through creating a basic eBPF program in Rust. This simple and approachable eBPF program will intentionally include a performance regression.
Gen AI Assistants play to the strengths of professionals with a breadth of experience like software developers who can describe what they want the LLM to complete and critically evaluate the result.
Our infrastructures have environmental and economic costs; the IT sector is responsible for 1.4% of carbon emissions worldwide. GreenOps can be used to help mitigate this impact.
Good interface design is a complex engineering challenge with many dimensions. This article explores the key dimensions of Ownership and whether a Human is involved.
We need to take the concepts of platform engineering to the code level, reduce cognitive load, help simplify and accelerate software development, and allow for easy maintenance and platform upgrades.
In this article, AWS Serverless Hero Sheen Brisals examines how the characteristics of serverless influence us to think in a new way of architecting and evolving modern applications as set pieces.
Open-source initiatives are vital for democratizing AI technology, providing transparent and extensible tools. The community rapidly turns research into practical AI tools, enhancing their utility.
In this article, Sara Bergman will share tips, tricks, and advice on architecting software for a greener future.
This article explores JDK 21's virtual threads, comparing their performance with Open Liberty's thread pool and highlighting key findings and performance issues.
Bernd Ruecker's QCon London 2024 talk highlighted the significance of long-running processes, asynchronous communication, and visual tools like BPMN for improving communication in distributed systems.
The main objective of this article is to uncover the valuable lessons learned and insights gained from Trainline's journey through the dynamic landscape of digital transportation platforms.
Are architects supposed to be the smartest people on the team? Certainly not. Rather, architects make everyone else smarter, for example by sharing decision models or revealing blind spots.
The purpose of an architectural retrospective is to use experience to help the development team improve their architecting skills and their way of working as they make architectural decisions.
Even skilled and motivated agile teams sometimes fail to achieve their own software quality goals. This article presents a practice to assist agile teams in reaching their quality goals.
Uber operates a complex real-time fulfillment system. This article discusses migrating this workload from on-premises to a hybrid cloud architecture with no downtime or business impact.
This article explores understanding what makes incidents so rare (when and how they do not happen) and so minor (over how much worse they can be) and deliberately enhancing what makes that possible.
JVM apps often need to run native code. The current options: porting to JVM or dynamic linking, have significant drawbacks. Using Chicory Wasm runtime promises a safer alternative.
The 2024 "State of FinOps" survey results of the FinOps Foundation mentioned that organizations' top priorities have shifted to reducing cloud waste or unused resources.
In Jan 2023, we received word that we’d need to build a microblogging service. This article describes how we developed and launched the Threads app at Meta last year.
Michael Friedrich is exploring DevSecOps inefficiencies, highlighting issues like debugging delays. He also showcases AI's potential to streamline workflows efficiency.
InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ are discussing the current trends in the domain of AI, ML and Data Engineering as part of the process of creating our annual trends report.
In this article, we will dive into .NET Aspire and illustrate how you can orchestrate next-generation distributed applications that consist of containers, WebAssembly workloads, and dependencies.
The technical debt metaphor is misleading because much of the so-called debt never needs to be repaid. This conclusion is apparent when using the Minimum Viable Architecture (MVA) approach.
The recent CrowdStrike outage highlights the need to uphold best practices in production changes and offers a chance to reevaluate processes for managing complex systems effectively.
Learn about the capabilities of the open-source Llama 3 LLM, how to deploy it in the cloud or on-premise, and how to leverage fine-tuned versions for specific tasks.
In the InfoQ "Practical Applications of Generative AI" article series, we present real-world solutions and hands-on practices from leading GenAI practitioners in the industry.
This article discusses non-blocking I/O models in software development, focusing on Vert.x for building reactive applications on the JVM, with superior performance in high-concurrency environments.
This article is about curating a developer experience, it shares experiences and learnings from implementing DevEx and ideas on what platform engineers can do for development teams that use platforms.
At QCon San Francisco 2023, David Stenglein explored the shift to a product model for internal platforms and how it benefited from people-centric tools like customer empathy and the DevEx framework.
Learn how to get the best performance from self-hosted LLMs, with best practices on how to overcome challenges due to model size, GPU scarcity, and a rapidly evolving field.
Explore the benefits and challenges of microservices architecture in cloud environments, focusing on achieving resilience and high availability while managing costs and performance issues.
Four experts discuss some issues people should think about when adopting LLMs and how they can make the best choice for their specific use case.
Functional programming might seem intimidating and overly academic at first, but once you get the hang of it, it helps you build more maintainable software, making the process more enjoyable.
Maintaining a strong security posture is challenging, especially with Linux. An effective approach is proactive and includes patch management, optimized resource allocation, and effective alerting.
Netflix's EVCache system powers 400M ops/second with 14.3 PB of data, optimizing global availability, scalability, and efficiency while reducing costs through intelligent data routing and compression.
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