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Article: The App Is Just the Tip: What It Takes to Build Mobile Infrastructure at Scale

Kirill Sokolov — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT

What determines whether your app feels fast, ships often, and stays stable at scale is not the app itself. It is what sits behind it. This article is about that layer: what it does, why it exists, what it takes to design it correctly, and what happens when you try to migrate a live, high-traffic product onto it without a safety net.

By Kirill Sokolov

Docker Urges Isolation and Governance for AI Agent Security

Matt Saunders — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Docker has published a guide to five security risks that arise when AI agents are allowed to browse, run code and call tools with limited human oversight. They argue that the autonomy that makes agents useful also makes conventional application security controls insufficient. The company positions isolation and governance, rather than model improvements alone, as the main defences.

By Matt Saunders

Google Launches LiteRT Tensor API for Building, Customizing, and Optimizing ML Models for On-Device

Sergio De Simone — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Google has introduced the LiteRT Tensor API, a lightweight C++ API that allows developers to build, customize, and optimize machine learning models directly for on-device execution. According to Google, it combines the flexibility of native model authoring with cross-platform portability.

By Sergio De Simone

Vitest 5: Prioritises Performance with a Shared Vite Server, Trace View, and Stricter Test Defaults

Daniel Curtis — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:47:00 GMT

Vitest 5.0 focuses on speed, with reported gains of 8 to 25 percent in most setups and up to 53 percent in VM pools. It adds a vitest doctor command, Browser Mode Trace View, and vi.when. Defaults are stricter: clearMocks is true and unawaited async assertions fail. It requires Vite 6.4 and Node.js 22.12 or newer.

By Daniel Curtis

LinkedIn Uses OpenTelemetry to Trace the Member Journey from Tap to Backend

Craig Risi — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:00:00 GMT

LinkedIn has built an OpenTelemetry-based telemetry platform that connects what members do in its iOS, Android, and web applications with the backend services processing those interactions.

By Craig Risi

Presentation: Beyond the Harness: Canvas for AI Agents

Nimisha Asthagiri — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Nimisha Asthagiri shares how applying proven product engineering and architecture principles creates a bounded canvas for AI agents. She explains how this model provides agents with bounded autonomy, continuous drift detection, and decision records to scale software development resiliently.

By Nimisha Asthagiri

Google and Meta Open-Source TorchTPU to Bring Native PyTorch Support to Google TPUs

Sergio De Simone — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMT

TorchTPU is an open-source project developed by Google in collaboration with Meta that provides a native PyTorch backend for Google TPUs. It enables PyTorch workloads to execute on TPU hardware with minimal code modifications, supporting eager and compiled execution, distributed computing, and hardware-specific optimizations.

By Sergio De Simone

Java News Roundup: TornadoVM 8.0, JNoSQL, Endive, JReleaser, JBang, LangChain4j, Quarkus Almanac

Michael Redlich — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:00:00 GMT

This week's Java roundup for October 26th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 8.0; point releases of JNoSQL, Endive, JBang, JReleaser and LangChain4j; a maintenance release of JobRunr; beta releases of Hibernate ORM and Hibernate Reactive; and introducing the Quarkus Almanac.

By Michael Redlich

Uber Builds MCP Gateway to Govern Access to 800+ Servers and 5,000+ AI Agent Tools

Leela Kumili — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:53:00 GMT

Uber has built an MCP Gateway to standardize how AI agents discover and invoke internal services across more than 800 MCP servers and 5,000 tools. The gateway separates tool registration from runtime execution and includes automated API discovery, access controls, sensitive data redaction, incremental tool discovery through Omni MCP, and response filtering.

By Leela Kumili

Article: Systemic Approach to Memory, Knowledge, and Context in Agentic AI Architectures

Adi Polak — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMT

The article argues that reliable agentic AI architecture depends on a context engine that selects, injects, compresses, and expires information before it reaches the model. It separates context, memory, and knowledge, and recommends tiered memory, curated knowledge, and token budgeting. It also covers common anti-patterns, such as context stuffing and stale data loops, with mitigations.

By Adi Polak

Podcast: Educating an Architect: A Conversation with Luca Mezzalira

Luca Mezzalira — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Luca Mezzalira about software architecture as a socio-technical discipline that balances technological design with an organization's social and managerial context. They explored how architectural choices must be adapted to a company's unique culture and team structure rather than relying blindly on universal best practices.

By Luca Mezzalira

Shopify Overexposed Scans GKE Ingresses and Cloud Run for Exposure

Claudio Masolo — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Shopify has introduced Overexposed. This internal scanner locates Kubernetes Ingresses on GKE and Cloud Run services. It checks for those that are accessible from the internet without authentication.

By Claudio Masolo

AWS Capacity Largely Sold out through 2027, with On-Demand Headroom Reserved

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 08:03:00 GMT

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS’s large committed cloud capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with part of 2028 already allocated, while the company continues to reserve headroom for On Demand, EC2 and Bedrock. Practitioners discussing the remarks report difficulty obtaining On Demand capacity for ordinary EC2 instances, and similar constraints at other providers.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

File Mover Express: AWS Releases Open-Source Tool for S3 File Transfers

Renato Losio — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:32:00 GMT

AWS has recently released File Mover Express, an open-source application under the Apache 2.0 license for transferring large files between local systems and Amazon S3. Available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, it supports parallel transfers, automatic performance tuning, retries, pause and resume, and file integrity verification.

By Renato Losio

Cloudflare’s Post-Quantum GeoKey Manager Enters Closed Beta without Attribute-Based Encryption

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:56:00 GMT

Cloudflare has moved a post-quantum rebuild of GeoKey Manager into closed beta, guarding geo-fenced keys with hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519 instead of the attribute-based encryption used since 2022. Keys live only in kernel memory on verified regional servers, and any failed check rejects the request, a fail-closed choice practitioners ask could cause a regional outage. GA is planned for Q1 2027.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers