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Quesma Releases OTelBench to Evaluate OpenTelemetry Infrastructure and AI Performance
Quesma has launched OTelBench, an open-source suite to benchmark OpenTelemetry pipelines and AI-driven instrumentation. It evaluates collector performance under stress while testing how accurately LLMs handle complex SRE tasks like context propagation. Initial data shows AI agents often achieve success rates below 30%, highlighting the gap between code generation and production observability.
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Java News Roundup: JDK26-RC2, Payara Platform, Hibernate, Quarkus, Apache Camel, Jakarta EE 12
This week's Java roundup for February 16th, 2026, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 26; an update on Jakarta EE 12; the February 2026 edition of Payara Platform; a point release of Apache Camel; and maintenance releases of Hibernate Search and Quarkus.
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Uforwarder: Uber’s Scalable Kafka Consumer Proxy for Efficient Event-Driven Microservices
Uber has open-sourced uForwarder, a push-based Kafka consumer proxy built to handle trillions of messages and multiple petabytes of data daily. The system introduces context-aware routing, head-of-line blocking mitigation, adaptive auto-rebalancing, and partition-level delay processing to improve scalability, workload isolation, and hardware efficiency in large-scale event-driven microservices.
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Anthropic Study: AI Coding Assistance Reduces Developer Skill Mastery by 17%
Anthropic research shows developers using AI assistance scored 17% lower on comprehension tests when learning new coding libraries, though productivity gains were not statistically significant. Those who used AI for conceptual inquiry scored 65% or higher, while those delegating code generation to AI scored below 40%.
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Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith, AMQP
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of February 16th, 2026, highlighting the second milestone releases of: Spring Boot; Spring Security; Spring Integration; Spring Modulith; and Spring AMQP; along with the first milestone releases of Spring Session, Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring LDAP.
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OpenAI Introduces Harness Engineering: Codex Agents Power Large‑Scale Software Development
OpenAI introduces Harness Engineering, an AI-driven methodology where Codex agents generate, test, and deploy a million-line production system. The platform integrates observability, architectural constraints, and structured documentation to automate key software development workflows.
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AWS Enables Lambda Function Triggers from RDS for SQL Server Database Events
In a blog post, AWS recently described an event-driven pattern for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, allowing developers to trigger Lambda functions in response to database events via CloudWatch Logs and SQS.
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Cloudflare Introduces Local Uploads for R2 to Cut Cross-Region Write Latency by 75%
Cloudflare has recently introduced Local Uploads for R2 in open beta. The new feature optimizes write performance for globally distributed users without changing bucket location, reducing cross-region write latency.
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OpenAI Launches Frontier, a Platform to Build, Deploy, and Manage AI Agents across the Enterprise
OpenAI Frontier is an enterprise platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents, designed to make AI agents reliable, scalable, and integrated into real company systems and workflows.
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JDK 26 and JDK 27: What We Know So Far
JDK 26, the first non-LTS release since JDK 25, has reached its second release candidate with a final set of 10 new features, in the form of JEPs, that can be separated into five categories: Core Java Library, HotSpot, Java Language Specification, Security Library and Client Library. We examine JDK 26 and predict what features have, or could be, targeted for JDK 27.
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Reducing Onboarding from 48 Hours to 4: inside Amazon Key’s Event-Driven Platform
Amazon Key modernized its event platform by adopting a centralized, event-driven architecture built on Amazon EventBridge. The redesign processes millions of daily events with millisecond latency, improves schema governance, automates cross-account routing, and reduces service onboarding time from 48 hours to four, while maintaining 99.99 percent reliability.
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How Dropbox Built a Scalable Context Engine for Enterprise Knowledge Search
Dropbox engineers have detailed how the company built the context engine behind Dropbox Dash, revealing a shift toward index-based retrieval, knowledge graph-derived context, and continuous evaluation to support enterprise AI at scale.
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Uber and OpenAI Retool Rate Limiting Systems
Uber and OpenAI are replacing static rate limits with adaptive, infrastructure-level platforms. Uber’s Global Rate Limiter utilizes probabilistic shedding to manage 80M RPS, while OpenAI’s Access Engine implements a credit waterfall to prevent user interruptions. Both architectures utilize distributed enforcement and soft controls to maintain system stability and service continuity at scale.
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OpenAI Publishes Codex App Server Architecture for Unifying AI Agent Surfaces
OpenAI has recently published a detailed architecture description of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional protocol that decouples the Codex coding agent's core logic from its various client surfaces. The App Server now powers every Codex experience, including the CLI, the VS Code extension, and the web app, through a single, stable API.
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GlassFish 8.0 Delivers Compatibility with Jakarta EE 11, Enhanced Security and Improved Data Access
After 15 milestone releases, the Eclipse Foundation has released version 8.0 of GlassFish featuring support for virtual threads; enhanced application security; and improved data access. GlassFish 8.0 is a compatible implementation of Jakarta EE 11. Ondro Mihályi, Java Champion and co-founder of OmniFish, spoke to InfoQ about GlassFish 8.0.