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Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, to its Developer Platform. The new architecture uses Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects and Containers, consolidating publishing and delivery infrastructure while preserving package contents, URLs and SRI hashes at a scale of 9 billion requests per day. By Leela Kumili

Expedia Group has open-sourced mockql-rs, a Rust CLI that fills @mock-annotated GraphQL fields with LLM-generated data at request time. It follows Airbnb's @generateMock in April and a GraphQL Foundation RFC opened in February. All three solve the same problem with different architectures, and two use the same directive name with incompatible semantics. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

One of the most common assumptions in engineering leadership is that a rising number of reported incidents signals declining system reliability. However, a recent article from Great Circle argues that the opposite is often true: an increase in incident counts may actually indicate that an organization's incident management culture is improving. By Craig Risi

Meta AI Research has introduced Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license, designed for local workflows. It enables autonomous agents and complex task execution on consumer GPUs without relying on cloud APIs. The model employs a multi-stage training approach for efficient performance and supports multimodal inputs, enhancing coding and automation tasks. By Olimpiu Pop

npm 12 introduces significant security-related changes, making certain installation behaviors opt-in. Notably, script allowances are now off by default, which requires explicit approval for running scripts, including implicit builds. The update also restricts non-registry sources and addresses community concerns about security risks from automatic script execution. By Daniel Curtis

Rx.NET 7.0 has been released with a narrowly focused change aimed at reducing deployment size for Windows applications. The new version separates WPF, Windows Forms, UWP, and Windows Runtime integration from the main System.Reactive package, avoiding cases where self-contained applications could acquire tens of megabytes of unused framework dependencies. By Edin Kapić

Vercel has made the v0 API generally available, enabling developers and AI agents to programmatically generate, iterate on, preview, and deploy applications through API calls. By Daniel Dominguez

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to David Gudeman about the unique culture of early-stage startup engineering, how founder personality quirks and premature process impositions can derail teams, and how engineers can build influence and make deliberate career choices without formal power. By David Gudeman

Baruch Sadogursky and Patrick Debois discuss why coding agents fail due to bloated context windows and stuffed prompts. They explain practical context engineering fixes, including lazy-loaded skills, versioned context artifacts, externalized memory banks, and LLM-as-a-judge evals. Software architects & engineering leaders will learn how to turn raw markdown files into reliable agentic workflows. By Patrick Debois, Baruch Sadogursky

AI is disrupting career progression by eliminating the learning opportunities at each rung while simultaneously enabling people to perform above their experience level, Alasdair Allan explained in his talk Engineering Progression When AI Ate the Middle at QCon London. Fewer junior developers join the industry, and AI slows hiring at the entry level. By Ben Linders

The Kubeflow project has unveiled several technical updates to enhance distributed AI and high-performance computing on Kubernetes. These advancements include Kale 2.0, a modernised SDK with native Spark support, and expanded capabilities for the Kubeflow Trainer. The developments arrive as the project moves towards graduation from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. By Matt Saunders

Anthropic conducted an audit of 141006 evaluation runs after OpenAI's sandbox escape disclosure. The review identified three incidents where Claude models accessed the internet due to misconfigurations. These incidents involved unauthorised attacks on live targets. Anthropic has suspended offensive evaluations and plans to enhance security measures and collaborate with external auditors. By Olimpiu Pop

Nick DiStefano shares how Uber Eats migrated from traditional native app screens to a native-driven, single-page WebView architecture. He explains key strategies for engineering leaders and software architects looking to bypass native release cycles, manage cross-platform state, build generic native-web message bridges, and execute large-scale UI migrations without degrading metrics. By Nick DiStefano

Astro 7 focuses on build performance, utilizing native tooling and a rewritten compiler in Rust. The new version includes faster Markdown processing and stricter HTML rules. Recent updates introduced advanced routing and incremental builds, while issues around legacy file compatibility and dependency counts were raised in feedback. Astro targets content-driven sites with minimal JavaScript. By Daniel Curtis

Netflix migrated most of its batch workloads onto Kueue, an open-source cloud-native batch job execution system that has outgrown its homegrown solution over the years. The company mapped the capabilities previously created in-house to Kueue’s functionality and also benefited from new features that would have been costly to incorporate into its homegrown solution. By Rafał Gancarz

Spotify introduced external indexing architecture for Apache Parquet data lakes that enables low-latency point queries without replicating datasets into operational databases. The approach maps lookup keys to Parquet files and row locations, allowing targeted reads from cloud object storage while supporting analytics, machine learning, AI applications, and online services from the same datasets. By Leela Kumili

InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ are discussing the current trends in the domain of Cloud and DevOps as part of the process of creating our annual 2026 trends report. By Steef-Jan Wiggers, Matt Saunders, Shweta Vohra, Daniel Bryant, Mark Silvester, Renato Losio

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domains as part of our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of key topics to watch. This podcast offers a chance to hear our raw conversation and the stories shared by our expert practitioners. By Daniel Bryant, Matt Saunders, Shweta Vohra, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Mark Silvester, Renato Losio

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. By David Chisnall

The MCP 2026-07-28 specification removes the initialize handshake and session header, and adds required method and tool-name headers so gateways can route agent traffic without parsing JSON. Reaction split between developers calling it a rediscovery of REST and those arguing the standard itself was always the point. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Netflix has described how it redesigned the streaming pipeline behind Service Topology, its real-time service dependencies map, to support production scale. The system uses three stages to separate intermediary resolution from enrichment and persistence, propagates backpressure to Kafka rather than dropping records, and uses server-sent events instead of gRPC for high-volume internal transfers. By Eran Stiller

IBM and Red Hat have announced an expansion of Lightwell, introducing new commercial offerings designed to help organizations establish trusted, verifiable software supply chains for the age of AI-assisted software development. By Craig Risi

Meryem Arik discusses strategies for designing low-cost LLM inference architectures for high-volume, non-real-time workloads. She explains how software architects and engineering leaders can achieve order-of-magnitude cost reductions by making critical trade-offs across hardware, inference runtimes, speculative decoding, and smart queue reordering. By Meryem Arik

JetBrains has described how it began centralising AI usage after development-related spending increased roughly tenfold in six months. Rather than restricting engineers to a small set of approved tools, the company built a shared access and accounting layer intended to preserve tool choice while giving teams greater visibility and control over consumption. By Matt Foster