InfoQ

Azure and Community Guidelines on Choosing Between a Skill or a Sub-Agent

Sergio De Simone — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT

In a recent Azure Architecture blog article, Azure lead engineer Kishorekumar Pattabiraman outlines practical criteria for choosing between skills, sub-agents, and other approaches when building AI systems, emphasizing reusability, simplicity, and long-term maintainability.

By Sergio De Simone

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK JEPs, Jakarta EE, GraalVM, TornadoVM, Micronaut, Quarkus, JobRunr, Maven

Michael Redlich — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:30:00 GMT

This week's Java roundup for July 27th, 2026, features news highlighting: OpenJDK JEPs targeted and proposed to target for JDK 28; the GA release of GPULlama3.java 1.0; point releases of Micronaut, Quarkus and JobRunr; a maintenance release of JDKUpdater; the sixth release candidate of Maven 4.0; and the first milestone release of Jakarta Agentic AI 1.0.

By Michael Redlich

HubSpot Redesigns JITA Authorization with Rule Engine Architecture

Leela Kumili — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:59:00 GMT

HubSpot has redesigned its Just-In-Time Access (JITA) authorization system using a rule engine architecture. The system evaluates access requests through independent rules organized as a directed acyclic graph, adding structured decision metadata, rule-level observability, and governance workflows to replace complex conditional authorization logic.

By Leela Kumili

Article: Enabling Evolutionary Architecture Through the Preservation of Change Locality

Michael Fischer, Nicholas Lawrence, Monica Karekar — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Why do simple features suddenly require cross-team negotiations? In this article, explore how boundary drift quietly destroys change locality and increases cognitive load across teams. Learn practical sociotechnical strategies - redistributing mechanics, exposing essential policy, and rehearsing exception paths - to restore domain boundaries and enable a truly evolutionary software architecture.

By Michael Fischer, Nicholas Lawrence, Monica Karekar

Podcast: WebAssembly on the JVM: Feature Evolution, Performance, and the Transition to Endive

Andrea Peruffo — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Andrea Peruffo discusses the evolution of WebAssembly beyond the browser and its growing role on the server-side JVM. He covers performance advancements in Wasm runtimes, moving from interpreters to efficient JIT compilation, and explores real-world production use cases ranging from edge computing platforms to modular plugin architectures.

By Andrea Peruffo

Microsoft Agent Framework Harness and Hosted Agents Reach General Availability

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:30:00 GMT

Microsoft's Agent Framework now ships a supported runtime. Build 2026 brought the Agent Harness, the GitHub Copilot and Claude Agent SDK connectors, and the orchestration patterns to stable release; the harness and Foundry Hosted Agents have since reached GA. The shift is from an SDK for building agents to a governed platform for running them.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

HashiCorp Ships Public Beta of Vault Kubernetes Key Management

Mark Silvester — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:00:00 GMT

HashiCorp has released a public beta of Vault Kubernetes key management, a KMS v2-compatible plugin that lets the Kubernetes API server delegate envelope encryption to Vault Enterprise, moving the key encryption keys that protect etcd data out of the cluster and into a separately governed trust domain.

By Mark Silvester

Presentation: Architecting AI Systems for the Messy Reality of Enterprises: Why Agentic Compute is the Missing Layer

Arun Joseph — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:08:00 GMT

Arun Joseph shares real-world insights on scaling enterprise agentic platforms like Deutsche Telekom’s LMOS. He discusses bridging organizational fault lines, replacing tool sprawl with core platform abstractions, and moving beyond basic chatbots to operational intelligence systems through ephemeral agents and an Agent Definition Language (ADL).

By Arun Joseph

Microsoft Releases TypeScript 7.0 with a Native Go Compiler, Delivering 10x Faster Builds

Daniel Curtis — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:22:00 GMT

Microsoft has released TypeScript 7.0, featuring a native compiler that improves build speeds by 8x to 12x. Notable performance enhancements were evidenced in real codebases. The version lacks a stable programmatic API, anticipated in 7.1. Transitioning includes a compatibility package for existing tooling, and TypeScript remains an open-source project.

By Daniel Curtis

Embabel Agent Framework Reaches 1.0

Erik Costlow — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:43:00 GMT

Embabel has reached its 1.0 release, providing a framework for AI agents on Java It allows Java and Kotlin developers to define agents as typed domain objects. Built on Spring AI, Embabel supports multiple model providers and combines planning with predefined state machines, offering flexibility for agent workflows.

By Erik Costlow

Cloudflare Introduces Meerkat for Strongly Consistent Global Coordination

Renato Losio — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:17:00 GMT

Cloudflare recently introduced Meerkat, an internal globally consistent control-plane service based on the QuePaxa consensus algorithm. Unlike Raft, it allows leaderless writes while preserving strong consistency, improving availability across Cloudflare's global network.

By Renato Losio

AWS Introduces Free Sandbox Environments for Workshops

Renato Losio — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:49:00 GMT

AWS Builder Center now offers free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshops, so developers no longer need to use their own AWS account and credit card or worry about unexpected charges. This has been a long-standing request from the community and removes one of the biggest friction points for practitioners learning new AWS technologies.

By Renato Losio

Terraform Introduces tfpolicy, an HCL-based Policy-as-Code Framework

Sergio De Simone — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:00:00 GMT

HashiCorp has introduced tfpolicy, a new HCL-based policy-as-code framework for Terraform, now available in public beta within HCP Terraform. It is designed to simplify and modernize infrastructure governance by integrating policy creation and enforcement directly into Terraform workflows, eliminating the need for separate tools and languages.

By Sergio De Simone

Dropbox Integrates MCP and Dash to Close the Gap Between Security Design and Code Review

Leela Kumili — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:36:00 GMT

Dropbox has integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) with its internal knowledge platform, Dash, to surface security design context during AI assisted code reviews. The system retrieves threat models and security requirements for pull requests, helping reviewers validate implementation against design intent. An InfoQ Q&A explores the architecture and key lessons learned.

By Leela Kumili

Presentation: The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity

Holly Cummins — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI hype cycles. She connects financial debt (post-ZIRP) and technical debt to epistemic and sleep debt, showing engineering leaders how to navigate shifts in assumptions, embrace sustainability, and revive proven engineering disciplines.

By Holly Cummins