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Celebrating 20 Years of InfoQ
InfoQ celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we have published a walk-through of the trends InfoQ called early, where they sit on the adoption curve today, and how that curve may evolve over the next decade.
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Microsoft Discovery Reaches GA on Azure, Powering the Agentic AI behind Majorana 2 Quantum Chip
Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Discovery, its Azure-based platform for deploying autonomous AI agent teams in scientific R&D. The platform powered the development of Majorana 2, a topological quantum chip with 1,000x reliability improvement and 20-second qubit lifetimes. Microsoft now targets a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving its original timeline.
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AWS Open Sources ExtendDB to Run DynamoDB on PostgreSQL
AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting with PostgreSQL. The project supports existing SDKs and tools without modification, giving teams greater flexibility to run DynamoDB-style workloads outside of native DynamoDB while maintaining compatibility with current applications and workflows.
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Cloudflare Identifies Query Planning Bottleneck in ClickHouse
Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The team profiled the bottleneck and patched ClickHouse to replace an exclusive lock with a shared lock, drop the per-query copy of the parts list, and improve part filtering.
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Dropbox Introduces Nova, an Internal Platform for Running AI Coding Agents at Scale
Dropbox has unveiled Nova, an internal platform designed to orchestrate and operationalize AI coding agents across the company's engineering workflows.
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Google LiteRT-LM Speeds up Local Inference up to 2.2x with Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction
LiteRT-LM brings native support for Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters, enabling up to 2.2x faster inference. The framework is expanding beyond Kotlin and C++ adding support for new Swift and a JavaScript APIs.
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Claude Code Adds Dynamic Workflows for Parallel Agent Coordination
Anthropic introduced Dynamic Workflows, a new capability for Claude Code designed to handle complex software engineering tasks by coordinating large numbers of AI agents within a single workflow. The feature allows Claude to dynamically create orchestration scripts, break work into subtasks, run them in parallel, and validate results before presenting a final answer.
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BadHost Vulnerability Exposes AI Agents, Evaluators, and LLM Gateways
BadHost is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in the widely used Python web framework Starlette, with 325 million weekly downloads. The flaw allows attackers to use malformed HTTP Host headers to bypass path-based access controls and access sensitive AI agent infrastructure, among other systems.
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DuckDB Quack: Client/Server Protocol over HTTP for Multi-User Analytics
DuckDB has recently announced Quack, a new remote protocol over HTTP that lets multiple DuckDB instances connect to and work with the same database over a network. The protocol introduces client-server capabilities to a database that was previously mostly local and embedded.
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Arm Open-Sources Metis, an AI Security Framework Outperforming Traditional SAST Tools
Arm has open-sourced Metis, an agentic AI security framework designed to autonomously uncover complex software vulnerabilities. Unlike traditional pattern-based tools, Metis applies semantic reasoning to analyze cross-component dependencies and provides clear, natural language explanations for its findings.
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How Meta Rebuilt Data Ingestion for Petabyte-Scale Reliability
The engineering team at Meta recently outlined how the company migrated a data ingestion platform that transfers several petabytes of MySQL social graph data daily to improve reliability and operational efficiency. The team used techniques like reverse shadowing and continuous checksum monitoring to ensure zero downtime during the transition.
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AI-Assisted Migration Tool Helps Teams Move from ingress-nginx to Higress in Minutes
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has highlighted a new AI-assisted migration approach that enabled engineers to migrate 60 ingress-nginx resources to Higress in roughly 30 minutes, demonstrating how artificial intelligence is increasingly being applied to modernize Kubernetes networking and gateway infrastructure.
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GitHub Slashes Agent Workflow Token Spend up to 62% with Daily Audits and MCP Pruning
GitHub reports cutting token costs in agentic CI workflows by up to 62% by pruning unused MCP tools, swapping some MCP calls for gh CLI, and running daily “auditor” and “optimizer” agents. A token-usage.jsonl artefact and an Effective Tokens metric help track spend across models and spot regressions.
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Cloudflare Adds Support for Claude Managed Agents
Cloudflare recently added support for Claude Managed Agents, allowing developers to run and manage Claude agents within Cloudflare. Developers can connect agents to private systems, choose their runtime environment, and monitor agent activity using Cloudflare services.
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Azure Logic Apps Adds Sandboxed Code Interpreters to Agent Workflows
Microsoft added sandboxed code interpreters to Azure Logic Apps, enabling agents within integration workflows to generate and execute Python, JavaScript, C#, and PowerShell in Hyper-V isolated sessions. Architects get full control over model selection per workflow. The capability positions Logic Apps as an agent platform for integration alongside Foundry and Copilot Studio.