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Inside Uber’s Query Architecture: Simplifying Layers and Improving Observability
Uber rebuilt its Apache Pinot query architecture, replacing the Presto-based Neutrino system with a lightweight proxy called Cellar and Pinot’s Multi-Stage Engine Lite Mode. The redesign simplifies SQL execution, improves resource management, and ensures predictable performance for large-scale analytics workloads.
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Grafana and GitLab Introduce Serverless CI/CD Observability Integration
In a move to streamline development workflows, Daniel Fritzgerald of GrafanaLabs has published a new open-source solution that links GitLab CI/CD events into Grafana's observability stack via a serverless architecture.
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How AI with Prompt Engineering Supports Software Testing
AI is becoming a key QA tool, aiding in faster scenario generation, risk detection, and test planning. Arbaz Surti showed how effective prompting using roles, context, and output format helps to get clear, relevant, and actionable test scenarios. AI can boost testers, but human judgment is needed to ensure relevance and quality.
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Azure APIM Simplifies Event-Driven Architecture with Native Service Bus Policy
Microsoft's new feature in API Management (APIM) enables seamless messaging to Azure Service Bus, simplifying API connections in event-driven architectures. By using the send-service-bus-message policy, developers can easily route HTTP requests to Service Bus for asynchronous processing, enhancing integration, security, and control without additional components.
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Azure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility
A recent 9-hour Azure Front Door (AFD) outage was triggered by a faulty control-plane configuration change that bypassed safety checks due to a software defect, leading to a massive blast radius and affecting M365 and Entra ID via Identity Coupling, exposing a critical architectural anti-pattern in centralized edge fabrics.
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Voices Enables Fast Text-to-Speech for Java Applications
Voices, an open-source text-to-speech project, was designed for applications running on Java 17 or newer. The library requires no external APIs or manually installed software. Audio files can be generated for various languages based on dictionaries or OpenVoice. InfoQ spoke to Henry Coles, creator of Voices and Pitest.
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Meta and Hugging Face Launch OpenEnv, a Shared Hub for Agentic Environments
Meta's PyTorch team and Hugging Face have launched OpenEnv, an open-source platform for standardizing AI agent environments. The OpenEnv Hub features secure sandboxes that define the necessary tools and APIs for safe, predictable AI operation. Developers can explore, contribute, and refine environments, paving the way for scalable agent development in the open-source RL ecosystem.
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Cursor 2.0 Expands Composer Capabilities for Context-Aware Development
Cursor has launched version 2.0 of its AI-driven code editor, featuring Composer, a new model that enables developers to write and modify code through natural language interaction.
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Apple Releases Pico-Banana-400K Dataset to Advance Text-Guided Image Editing
Pico-Banana-400K is a curated dataset of 400,000 images developed by Apple researchers to make it easier to create text-guided image editing models. The images were generated using Google's Nano-Banana to modify real photographs from the Open Images collecion and were then filtered using Gemini-2.5-Pro based on their overall quality and prompt compliance.
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QCon London 2026 Announces Tracks: AI Engineering, Building Teams, Tech of Finance, and More
The QCon London 2026 tracks are live: 15 practitioner-curated deep dives on AI adoption, resilient architectures, distributed systems, performance, modern languages, data, security, and Staff+ leadership, rooted in real production lessons.
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EU's Cloud Sovereignty SEAL Ranking Forces Governance and Resilience Trade-offs
The EU's new Cloud Sovereignty Framework establishes a standardized assessment for cloud services, enhancing digital autonomy and reducing dependence on non-EU giants. It introduces a scorecard system based on eight Sovereignty Objectives that influences public sector procurement decisions.
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Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs for JDK 26, Spring RCs, Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J, Gradle
This week's Java roundup for October 27th, 2025, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs proposed to target for JDK 26; release candidates of Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Data; point releases of Quarkus, JReleaser, Seed4J and Gradle; and an update from Jakarta EE 12.
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Cloudflare Introduces Data Platform with Zero Egress Fees
Cloudflare has recently announced the open beta of Cloudflare Data Platform, a managed solution for ingesting, storing, and querying analytical data tables using open standards such as Apache Iceberg.
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Layered Defences are Key to Combating AI-Driven Cyber Threats, CNCF Report Finds
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has published an analysis of modern cybersecurity practices, finding that attacks using Artificial Intelligence are now a significant threat. The report highlights the criticality for organisations to adopt multi-layered defense strategies as artificial intelligence transforms both the threat landscape and the protective measures available to businesses.
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Apple Previews SDK for Building Android Apps with Swift
The Swift SDK for Android, recently released as a nightly build, is designed to help developers to port their Swift packages to Android, making it easier to share code across platforms. While the SDK is still in preview, over 25% of packages in the Swift Package Index can already be compiled for Android.