Facilitating the Spread of Knowledge and Innovation in Professional Software Development

Unlock the full InfoQ experience

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources.

Don't have an InfoQ account?

Stay updated on topics and peers that matter to youReceive instant alerts on the latest insights and trends.
Quickly access free resources for continuous learningMinibooks, videos with transcripts, and training materials.
Save articles and read at anytimeBookmark articles to read whenever youre ready.

Logo - Back to homepage

News Articles Presentations Podcasts Guides

Topics

Development

Featured in Development

Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI

David Chisnall discusses how the CHERI hardware architecture redefines pointer safety to solve isolation and sharing challenges. He explains how CHERI enables spatial and temporal memory safety for C/C++, scales down to microcontrollers with CHERIoT, and replaces costly OS-level RPC mechanisms with lightweight, auditable compartmentalization - all without requiring massive codebase rewrites.

All in development

Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Architecture as a Socio-Technical Craft

Architecture is not a fixed choice made once; fitness is a moving target driven by changing regulations, tech, and markets. Even a sound design can silently stop fitting over time without bad calls. Spanning seven articles on context stores, gateways, and topologies, this collection treats architecture as an evolving sociotechnical craft where teams deliberately shape friction, fitness, and flow.

All in architecture-design

AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Prompt to Prod: Engineering an Autonomous SDLC at Scale

Andrew Swerdlow shares how Roblox scales autonomous software development from prompt to production. He discusses building robust security sandboxes, extracting institutional knowledge via code review exemplars, updating engineering infrastructure, and redefining productivity metrics around feature velocity and long-running AI turns to achieve trusted, automated deployment at scale.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs

Shift-left and DevOps have impacted how we flow changes from inception to production, but at the cost of increased cognitive load and duplication of effort across testing, security, and maintenance. This article explores the real-world challenges of rightsizing developer platforms and finding a cultural match for engineering teams who use them to reduce cognitive load and deliver change faster.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

Featured in DevOps

Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms

Ian Nowland discusses why conventional CI/CD practices break down for stateful, core infrastructure. Drawing from his leadership at AWS and Datadog, he shares actionable techniques for safe progressive deployments, synthetic testing in production, and mitigating blast radius in complex software platforms.

All in devops

Events

Helpful links

Choose your language

AI Security & Privacy Engineering Certification

Secure and govern production AI systems, from sensitive data to guardrails, evals, and audits.
Online. Register now.

Architect Certification

Distributed systems, decentralized decisions, platform engineering, and AI architecture.
Online. Register Now.

Engineering Leadership Certification

Work through leadership decisions with senior peers facing similar technical trade-offs.
Online. Register Now.

AI-Assisted Engineering Certification

Your coding agent moves fast. Who checks whether it's making the codebase better?
Online. Register Now.

QCon San Francisco

What's working across AI, architecture, and leadership, from the teams doing it.
Register. Early bird ends August 11.

QCon AI New York

Production AI across agents, context, evals, security, and infrastructure, from the senior engineers building it.
Registration open.

QCon London

What early-adopter teams have proven in production, across 15 engineering tracks.
Register. Early bird ends August 11.

InfoQ Homepage Sync Framework Content on InfoQ

Presentations

RSS Feed

DevOps

Why Fetch When You Can Sync? Building Local-First Apps on a Sync Engine Architecture

James Arthur explains how extending reactivity to the server via Electric and TanStack DB replaces manual data fetching with real-time sync for high-performance, agentic web applications.

James Arthur
on Aug 20, 2026

Icon

51:54
Taking the Pain out of Real-time Mobile Back-end Development

Mandy Waite shows how to get started with Firebase before walking through a live demo of building a multi-user, collaborative mobile app that provides real-time updates to its users.

Mandy Waite
on Aug 15, 2015

Icon

45:01
Connecting Millions of Mobile Devices to the Cloud

Damien Katz explains how Couchbase Syncpoint provides real time data synchronization capabilities between multiple mobile devices and the cloud.

Damien Katz
on Sep 05, 2012

Icon

37:32

Unlock the full InfoQ experience

Don't have an InfoQ account?

Topics

Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI

Architecture as a Socio-Technical Craft

Prompt to Prod: Engineering an Autonomous SDLC at Scale

Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs

Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms

Helpful links

Choose your language

Presentations

Why Fetch When You Can Sync? Building Local-First Apps on a Sync Engine Architecture

Taking the Pain out of Real-time Mobile Back-end Development

Connecting Millions of Mobile Devices to the Cloud

DRAM Controller Register Manipulation Breaks CPU Memory Isolation

How PGSimCity Turns PostgreSQL Complexity into a Virtual City 3D Simulation

LLM-Generated GraphQL Mocks Arrive at Airbnb and Expedia, While the Spec Lags behind

Microsoft Moves AI Governance From Policy to Runtime Enforcement

Cloudflare Cuts Astro GitHub Issues by 85% with AI Agents

Architecture as a Socio-Technical Craft

Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs

How Code in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Becomes Write-Only and Disposable

Turning Outward: Growing From Code to Influence

Cursor Releases Origin as an Agent-Native Alternative to GitHub

Beyond Embedded: How DuckDB v2.0 Shifts Architecture Toward Distributed Network Capabilities

Prompt to Prod: Engineering an Autonomous SDLC at Scale

Continuous Delivery for Foundational Platforms

BMC Vulnerabilities Put Thousands of Servers at Risk of Hardware-Level Compromise

Cloudflare Turns Engineering Standards into an AI-Enforced Control System

Online InfoQ AI Security & Privacy Engineering Program

Online InfoQ Architect Certification

Online InfoQ Engineering Leadership Certification

Online InfoQ AI-Assisted Engineering Certification

QCon San Francisco

QCon AI New York

QCon London 2027

InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter

Presentations