InfoQ

A routine TLS 1.3 upgrade silently broke Route 53 health checks. The result? A CDN stopped routing traffic to a healthy region - while internal dashboards showed everything was fine. In this #InfoQ article, Alexey Golev explores why HA ≠ resilience, how control-plane dependencies create invisible failure modes, and why recovery capability erodes without clear ownership. Read now: https://bit.ly/4xSNm8Y #CloudComputing #SRE #Resilience

Enterprise transactional data wasn't built for token-hungry AI agents. Fabiane Nardon explains how to build an agentic data architecture combining Data Mesh, Semantic Web ontologies, and MCP tools - improving precision while cutting token costs by up to 60% 🔗 Watch now: https://bit.ly/4xwSznD #AIAgents #DataArchitecture #MCP #InfoQ

Most AI teams aren’t engineering. They’re shipping on vibes. Change a prompt. Run one test. It feels better. Ship it. That’s not Product Development - that’s pure randomness! Without an automated eval suite covering your edge cases, you don’t know if you actually improved the product or just broke five other user flows. Stop shipping on vibes. Build the eval suite first. 🔗 Watch now: https://bit.ly/4ypkRRu #SoftwareEngineering #LLMOps #AIProductDevelopment #InfoQ #PromptEngineering #SystemDesign

In this #InfoQ video, Ian Cooper explores how AsyncAPI, xRegistry, CloudEvents, and schema registries bring discovery, governance, and automation to asynchronous APIs. From event definitions to code generation and infrastructure provisioning, see how Just Eat Takeaway manages event-driven integrations at scale. 🎬 Watch now [transcript included] – https://bit.ly/4z6qHae #EventDrivenArchitecture #AsyncAPI #CloudEvents #SoftwareArchitecture #InfoQ

Grafana Labs published a practical way to monitor Cypress test suites by converting test results into Prometheus metrics for Grafana Cloud - turning transient pass/fails into long-term observability. 📖 Learn how on InfoQ - https://bit.ly/4ANgrFF #Observability #DevOps #Testing #Grafana #Cypress #InfoQ

Workload Identity Federation (WIF) changes how you think about machine identity. WIF uses trust relationships to authenticate external workloads to Google Cloud - reducing credential exposure and operational overhead . The model is consistent: pool → provider/connector → service account binding. 👉 More insights: https://bit.ly/4zNoIZx #CloudSecurity #DevOps #Authentication #DevSecOps #InfoQ

AI coding agents need more than good prompts. In this #InfoQ video, Patrick Debois introduces the Context Development Lifecycle (CDL): Generate, Evaluate, Distribute, Observe. The Context Flywheel closes the loop: 💡 better context → better results → better observations → better context 🎬 Watch now [transcript included] – https://bit.ly/4AVmojU #AIAgents #AIEngineering #DevOps #ContextEngineering

The hardest architecture decisions I made this year weren’t the technical ones. They were the trade-offs. During a core migration on our loyalty platform, I had domain experts, historical data, and production signals to guide many of those decisions. Even then, the answer wasn’t always obvious. Every choice meant giving something else up. What happens when you don’t have those inputs? 𝗔 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻. 𝗟𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮. 𝗨𝗻𝗳𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘁𝘀. 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻𝘀. That’s what I’m curious to explore as I join the InfoQ 𝗖𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 Program, facilitated by Luca Mezzalira, starting 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟵. What interests me about the program is the opportunity to work through architecture decisions with experienced practitioners and examine not just what decision to make, but how to reason about it when the answer isn’t obvious. That question feels increasingly relevant to the work I’m doing: making technical decisions where the cost of getting them wrong is high, but waiting for perfect information isn’t an option. I’ll share a few things I learn along the way. 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘵? For details on the program and registration: https://lnkd.in/gRnvZ4we

#Uber’s new ServiceScale controller lets multiple orchestrators safely manage the same workloads by separating scaling intent from execution. Learn how it supports regional failover without reserved idle capacity. 🔗 https://bit.ly/4jw4j5p #DevOps #Kubernetes #Scaling #InfoQ

Your entire cloud provider goes down. Your payments don’t. When GCP had a 4-hour outage, Form3's only symptom was pod crash loops - payments kept flowing. Discover how treating an entire cloud provider as an Availability Zone enables true multi-active resilience. 🔗 Watch now: https://bit.ly/4rgYz1k #SystemArchitecture #DistributedSystems #CloudNative #GCP #ReliabilityEngineering #InfoQ