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AWS Releases Next Generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless

Gianmarco Nalin — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:00:00 GMT

Amazon Web Services has recently announced the general availability of the next generation of Amazon OpenSearch Serverless, with a redesigned architecture that enables 20 times faster resource provisioning than the previous serverless architecture, true scale-to-zero capability, and up to 60% lower cost than a provisioned cluster for peak loads.

By Gianmarco Nalin

Pinterest Uses Content Fingerprints for URL Deduplication Across Millions of Domains

Leela Kumili — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:37:00 GMT

Pinterest introduced MIQPS, a URL normalization system that identifies which query parameters affect page identity using rendered content fingerprints. It reduces duplicate processing across millions of domains by replacing rule-based approaches with offline analysis, anomaly detection, and runtime parameter maps, improving ingestion efficiency and scalability in large-scale content pipelines.

By Leela Kumili

Java News Roundup: JDK 27 in Rampdown, JDK 28 Expert Group, GlassFish, Infinispan, Kotlin

Michael Redlich — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:45:00 GMT

This week's Java roundup for June 1st, 2026, features news highlighting: JDK 27 in Rampdown Phase One; the formation of the JDK 28 Expert Group; the GlassFish Arquillian Connectors Suite for Jakarta EE TCKs; point releases for Infinispan and Kotlin; maintenance releases of GlassFish and Micronaut; and the June 2026 beta release of Open Liberty.

By Michael Redlich

Gemma 4 12B Enables On-Device, Multimodal Agentic Workflows with an Encoder-free Architecture

Sergio De Simone — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT

Google says Gemma 4 12B is "designed to bring agentic, multimodal intelligence directly to your laptop", further noting that the new model can be combined with Google AI Edge to "build and experiment locally, on everyday machines". This integration allows for a wide range of capabilities, from autonomous data processing to generating visual insights and even building webpages or executing tools.

By Sergio De Simone

Celebrating 20 Years of InfoQ

InfoQ — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:35:00 GMT

InfoQ celebrates its 20th anniversary. To mark the occasion, we have published a walk-through of the trends InfoQ called early, where they sit on the adoption curve today, and how that curve may evolve over the next decade.

By InfoQ

Article: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Phishing: How Phishing Technique Is Evolving and Implemented

Marco Rizzi — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this article, the author examines how AI is transforming phishing from a manual, targeted activity into an automated and scalable attack model. The article breaks down each stage of the phishing lifecycle, showing how AI improves reconnaissance, profiling, content generation, delivery, and interaction, while outlining layered defenses that combine controls, processes, and user awareness.

By Marco Rizzi

Podcast: From MCP and Vibe Coding to Harness Engineering: How Did AI Native Engineering Evolve in One Year

Birgitta Böckeler — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Birgitta Böckeler, Distinguished Engineer at Thoughtworks, returns to discuss the rapid evolution of AI in software delivery. She touches on the evolution from vibe coding, the changing tools landscape and the more autonomous agents that, besides higher velocity, introduce higher risk.

By Birgitta Böckeler

Presentation: Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto

Martin Kleppmann — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Martin Kleppmann discusses the urgent need for technological sovereignty in modern infrastructure. Exploring the shifting landscape of global tech dependencies, he shares how engineering leaders can leverage multi-cloud architecture, de facto API standardization, the AT Protocol, and local-first development paradigms to reclaim user agency and build highly resilient systems.

By Martin Kleppmann

Presentation: Beyond Speed Limits: Exploring the Performance Power of Valkey

Viktor Vedmich — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:15:00 GMT

Senior Solution Architect Viktor Vedmich shares how engineering leaders can maximize application performance using Valkey. He discusses the open-source Redis fork's 100% API compatibility, explores advanced caching strategies like lazy loading, and explains how to implement powerful data structures for real-time analytics, rate limiting, and session stores to solve the thundering herd problem.

By Viktor Vedmich

Microsoft Discovery Reaches GA on Azure, Powering the Agentic AI Behind Majorana 2 Quantum Chip

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:08:00 GMT

Microsoft announced the general availability of Microsoft Discovery, its Azure-based platform for deploying autonomous AI agent teams in scientific R&D. The platform powered the development of Majorana 2, a topological quantum chip with 1,000x reliability improvement and 20-second qubit lifetimes. Microsoft now targets a scalable quantum computer by 2029, halving its original timeline.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: The Technology Adoption Curve, Twenty Years On

Renato Losio, Dio Synodinos — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:30:00 GMT

Today, June 8th, InfoQ celebrates 20 years. This is not a comprehensive history, but a deliberately selective look at the technologies and practices InfoQ identified early, where they sit on the adoption curve in 2026, and how that curve may evolve over the next five to ten years.

By Renato Losio, Dio Synodinos

Microsoft Launches Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

Microsoft announced Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026, a new SKU at auto.azure.com packaging workflows, AI agents, knowledge services, and model access into a managed SaaS experience. Agents integrate via agent-loop orchestration, Foundry agents, and managed sandbox. Knowledge as a Service provides a fully managed RAG pipeline.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Terraform 1.15 Closes Gap to OpenTofu on Dynamic Sources and Deprecation

Matt Saunders — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT

HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.15, introducing dynamic module sources, a formal deprecation mechanism for variables and outputs, a new inline type conversion function, type constraints for output blocks, and native Windows ARM64 support. The release addresses several long-standing requests from the Terraform community.

By Matt Saunders

Zero Reaches 1.0, Marking the First Stable Release of Rocicorp's Web Sync Engine

Daniel Curtis — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:49:00 GMT

Rocicorp has released Zero 1.0, a stable version of its sync engine after two years of development. This update introduces a schema change hook for Supabase and includes bug fixes. Zero operates by pairing a client library with a read-only Postgres cache. Community feedback highlights positive developer experience but raises concerns about production readiness and existing limitations.

By Daniel Curtis

ExtendDB: Open Source Amazon DynamoDB Compatible Adapter with Pluggable Storage Backends

Renato Losio — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:25:00 GMT

AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting with PostgreSQL. The project supports existing SDKs and tools without modification, giving teams greater flexibility to run DynamoDB-style workloads outside of native DynamoDB while maintaining compatibility with current applications and workflows.

By Renato Losio