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Presentation: From Founding Engineer to CTO to CEO – At the Same Startup

Trisha Ballakur — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:33:00 GMT

Trisha Ballakur discusses her journey from a backend software engineer to CTO and CEO, using her startup Pointz as a case study. She explains how to implement bottom-up customer discovery to find product-market fit, effectively delegate to global contractors to reduce build times, customize open-source repos like Valhalla, and apply engineering test-case models to business development.

By Trisha Ballakur

Accountability is the Goal for AI, with EU Regulations Supporting Transparency

Ben Linders — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:08:00 GMT

AI bias mirrors human bias; both stem from our language and lived experiences. Ethics and AI are inseparable, but AI changes affordances, making harmful actions easier to carry out. The EU regulations apply to AI, since digital products are products. The ultimate goal is accountability: companies must ensure transparency, and laws should favor using the simplest AI that gets the job done.

By Ben Linders

Microsoft Announces Azure Linux 4.0, Its First General-Purpose Server Linux Distribution

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:49:00 GMT

Microsoft announced Azure Linux 4.0 and Azure Container Linux at Open Source Summit. Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based general-purpose server distribution for Azure VMs, the first time Microsoft has offered a supported Linux beyond container hosting. Azure Container Linux is an immutable container-optimized host built on Flatcar.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: Stragglers, Not Failures: How Adaptive Hedged Requests Reduce p99 Latency by 74 Percent

Prathamesh Bhope — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT

n fan-out microservice architectures, slow-but-completing requests accumulate across services and drive p99 latency far higher than per-service metrics suggest. This article presents an adaptive hedging mechanism that uses DDSketch for real-time quantile estimation, windowed rotation to handle distribution drift, and a token-bucket budget to prevent load amplification.

By Prathamesh Bhope

Cloudflare Adds Support for Claude Managed Agents

Renato Losio — Thu, 28 May 2026 06:23:00 GMT

Cloudflare recently added support for Claude Managed Agents, allowing developers to run and manage Claude agents within Cloudflare. Developers can connect agents to private systems, choose their runtime environment, and monitor agent activity using Cloudflare services.

By Renato Losio

How LinkedIn Identified a Kernel Lock Contention Issue Causing Recurring System Freezes

Sergio De Simone — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:00:00 GMT

When LinkedIn engineers encountered short-lived, recurring outages where the database powering their user feed became unavailable and then recovered without leaving helpful traces, they had to devise a novel approach to uncover the root cause using off-CPU profiling with eBPF.

By Sergio De Simone

Azure Logic Apps Adds Sandboxed Code Interpreters to Agent Workflows

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:45:00 GMT

Microsoft added sandboxed code interpreters to Azure Logic Apps, enabling agents within integration workflows to generate and execute Python, JavaScript, C#, and PowerShell in Hyper-V isolated sessions. Architects get full control over model selection per workflow. The capability positions Logic Apps as an agent platform for integration alongside Foundry and Copilot Studio.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Presentation: Designing AI Platforms for Reliability: Tools for Certainty, Agents for Discovery

Aaron Erickson — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:04:00 GMT

Aaron Erickson discusses the evolution of AI workflows, shifting from "vibe checking" to building reliable, multi-agent frameworks. He explains how to combine deterministic software guardrails with agentic discovery, optimize agent hierarchies, leverage time-series foundation models, and implement rigorous evaluation pyramids to ensure architecture scales effectively in production.

By Aaron Erickson

Sarang Kulkarni on Lessons from Building Deep Research Agents in Production

Srini Penchikala — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:45:00 GMT

Deep Research Agentic Systems are AI Agents designed to conduct multi-step research for complex tasks using dynamic reasoning, multi-hop information retrieval, and generate structured analytical reports. Sarang Kulkarni from Thoughtworks spoke at Arc of AI Conference 2026 on how to deploy multi-agent research systems for deep reasoning, and the lessons learned from developing Deep Research Agents.

By Srini Penchikala

Pullfrog AI: Open-Source CodeRabbit Alternative Powered by GitHub Actions

Daniel Curtis — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:23:00 GMT

Pullfrog is an open-source AI-powered GitHub bot by Colin McDonnell, designed for automation in GitHub Actions. It supports a model-agnostic approach, allowing integration with various LLM providers. Key features include orchestration for pull request reviews, issue triage, and CI remediation, all managed within GitHub's environment. The tool operates with a bring-your-own-key model for access.

By Daniel Curtis

Platform Engineering Labs Expands formae with Kubernetes Support, Native Helm Integration

Craig Risi — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Platform Engineering Labs has announced a major update to its open-source Infrastructure-as-Code platform, formae, introducing full Kubernetes support, native Helm integration, direct .tfvars compatibility, and a new public plugin hub aimed at simplifying cloud-native infrastructure management

By Craig Risi

InfoQ Online Certification Program: New AI Engineering and Organizational Architecture Cohorts

Artenisa Chatziou — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:00:00 GMT

InfoQ expands its online certification portfolio with new AI Engineering and Organizational Architecture cohorts, giving senior practitioners a confidential peer group to pressure-test production AI, platform, team design, and architecture decisions.

By Artenisa Chatziou

Presentation: Realtime and Batch Processing of GPU Workloads

Joseph Stein — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:08:00 GMT

Joseph Stein discusses engineering an enterprise AI-as-a-Service platform within a private cloud data center. He explains how to maximize underutilized GPU pools via multi-namespace scheduling, leverage Valkey and Lua for atomic priority queuing and backpressure management, mitigate OWASP Top 10 LLM risks via central proxy gateways, and scale batch pipelines using a custom S3-to-Kafka proxy.

By Joseph Stein

Article: Architecting Cloud-Native Kafka: From Tiered Storage Towards a Diskless Future

Viquar Khan — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT

This article explores Kafka's transition toward a cloud-native architecture, examining how tiered storage, FinOps telemetry, elastic consumer scaling, virtual clusters, and Share Groups reshape the operational and economic model of event streaming platforms. It also analyzes emerging diskless-storage proposals and their architectural trade-offs.

By Viquar Khan

Google Expands SynthID Adoption for AI Watermarking, Previews Content Detection API

Sergio De Simone — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:00:00 GMT

Google's SynthID, designed to embed imperceptible signals into AI-generated content, is adding a new Content Detection API on Google Cloud's Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, after gaining adoption by several industry players including Nvidia and OpenAI.

By Sergio De Simone