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

One Cache to Rule Them All: Handling Responses and In-Flight Requests with Durable Objects

Traditional caching fails to stop "thundering herds" where multiple clients trigger the same work during a miss. This article proposes using Cloudflare Durable Objects to treat in-flight work and finished results as two states of one cache entry. By routing to a single owner, systems eliminate redundant tasks. This pattern replaces complex locks with simple promises, simplifying the system design.

All in development

Architecture & Design

Featured in Architecture & Design

Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Sub‑100-ms APIs emerge from disciplined architecture using latency budgets, minimized hops, async fan‑out, layered caching, circuit breakers, and strong observability. But long‑term speed depends on culture, with teams owning p99, monitoring drift, managing thread pools, and treating performance as a shared, continuous responsibility.

All in architecture-design

AI Infrastructure

Featured in AI, ML & Data Engineering

Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned

Moumita Bhattacharya discusses the evolution of Netflix’s ranking systems, from the multi-model architecture to a Unified Contextual Recommender (UniCoRn). She explains how they built a task-agnostic User Foundation Model to capture long-term member preferences. Learn how they solve system challenges like high-throughput inference and the tradeoff between relevance and personalization.

All in ai-ml-data-eng

Culture & Methods

Featured in Culture & Methods

The Friction Fix: Change What Matters

Friction is the invisible current that sinks every transformation. Friction isn’t one thing, – it’s systemic. Relationships produce friction: between the people, teams and technology. The fix isn’t Kubernetes, the Cloud or AI. The fix is changing our patterns of thinking, communicating, and organizing.

All in culture-methods

DevOps

Featured in DevOps

No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

Po Linn Chia shares the sociotechnical journey of ClassPass, moving from a flaky, homegrown testing framework to a dynamic routing architecture on ECS. She discusses leveraging Traefik and OpenTelemetry baggage to enable "shadow mains" and ephemeral feature testing. This talk provides a pragmatic blueprint for engineering leaders to increase developer velocity with a lean platform team.

All in devops

Events

Helpful links

Choose your language

InfoQ Architect Certification

Join Luca Mezzalira for this 5-week online cohort. Master socio-technical architecture leadership.

Register Interest.

QCon London 2026

Learn what works in AI, architecture, data, security & FinTech.

Early Bird ends Feb 10.

QCon AI Boston

Learn how leading engineering teams run AI in production—reliably, securely, and at scale.

Early Bird ends Feb 10.

InfoQ Homepage Unification Content on InfoQ

News

RSS Feed

Architecture & Design

Uber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage

Uber engineers detailed how they evolved their storage platform from static rate limiting to a priority-aware load management system. The approach protects Docstore and Schemaless, Uber’s MySQL-based distributed databases, by colocating control with storage, prioritizing critical traffic, and dynamically shedding load under overload conditions.

Leela Kumili
on Jan 29, 2026

Unlock the full InfoQ experience

Don't have an InfoQ account?

Topics

One Cache to Rule Them All: Handling Responses and In-Flight Requests with Durable Objects

Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned

The Friction Fix: Change What Matters

No QA Environment? No Problem: How Classpass Enables Testing on a Single Environment in ECS

Helpful links

Choose your language

News

Uber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage

One Cache to Rule Them All: Handling Responses and In-Flight Requests with Durable Objects

Rust Contributor Explores AI-Assisted Compiler Development with New Rue Language

Ramp Builds Internal Coding Agent That Powers 30% of Engineering Pull Requests

Engineering Speed at Scale — Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Uber Moves from Static Limits to Priority-Aware Load Control for Distributed Storage

Startup Software Architecture - You Never Really Throw It Away: A Conversation with David Gudeman

Building Software Organisations Where People Can Thrive

The Friction Fix: Change What Matters

Theme Systems at Scale: How To Build Highly Customizable Software

Google DeepMind Introduces ATLAS Scaling Laws for Multilingual Language Models

Foundation Models for Ranking: Challenges, Successes, and Lessons Learned

Google Introduces TranslateGemma Open Models for Multilingual Translation

Railway Highlights the Importance of Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Alerts for Diagnosing System Failure

Cedar Joins CNCF as a Sandbox Project

OpenCost Looks Back on 2025 Milestones and Charts a Roadmap for 2026

QCon London

QCon AI Boston

InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter

News