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Android Studio Quail 2 Redesigns Agent Mode, Streamlines AI-Assisted Coding

Sergio De Simone — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMT

The latest release of Android Studio, Quail 2, now stable, expands Gemini/AI Agent Mode inside the IDE by enabling multiple AI conversations in parallel and further advancing Google's push to integrate AI-powered workflows directly into Android Studio. It also enhances debugging and profiling capabilities and makes it easier to explore experimental features.

By Sergio De Simone

RSPack 2.0: Performance Gains, Leaner Dependencies and ESM Core

Daniel Curtis — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:23:00 GMT

Rspack, developed by ByteDance, has released version 2.0, featuring enhanced performance, reduced dependencies, and a focus on modern ECMAScript modules. Key updates include a pure ESM core, improved static analysis, and support for RSC. Performance benchmarks show big improvements in build times. The project has experienced substantial growth, with npm downloads exceeding 5 million weekly.

By Daniel Curtis

GitLab Brings Carbon Awareness to CI/CD to Measure the Environmental Cost of Software Delivery

Craig Risi — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT

GitLab has introduced a new approach to Green DevOps, demonstrating how software engineering teams can measure the carbon emissions generated by their CI/CD pipelines.

By Craig Risi

Presentation: Engineering AI for Creativity and Curiosity on Mobile

Bhavuk Jain — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:20:00 GMT

Bhavuk Jain discusses translating foundational AI into scalable mobile products. He shares the engineering challenges behind AI Wallpapers and Circle to Search, detailing how to implement robust runtime guardrails, fine-tuning, and seamless OS integration. For engineering leaders, he explains balancing UX constraints with model latency and infrastructure cost to deliver safe, reliable AI.

By Bhavuk Jain

Yelp Unifies ML Model Training with Training Orchestrator

Claudio Masolo — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Yelp has launched Training Orchestrator. This new internal framework replaces individual team Spark training scripts. Now, it uses a configuration-driven, DAG-based execution model.

By Claudio Masolo

GitLab 19.2 Puts AI Agents to Work on the Security Backlog

Matt Saunders — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT

GitLab has released version 19.2 of its DevSecOps platform, adding agentic automation aimed at the security and review work that has piled up as AI coding tools generate more code than developers can check by hand. The release, announced on 16 July 2026, brings four features out of beta or into public beta: Dependency Scanning Auto-Remediation, Security Review Flow, GitLab Duo CLI and Custom Flows

By Matt Saunders

Java News Roundup: Value Objects, WildFly 41, TornadoVM, LangChain4j, Oracle AI Agent Studio

Michael Redlich — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:45:00 GMT

This week's Java roundup for July 13th, 2026, features news highlighting: a reintroduction of Value Objects (Preview); the GA release of WildFly 41; the July 2026 edition of Open Liberty 26.0.0.7; point releases of TornadoVM, Apache TomEE, Java Operator SDK and LangChain4j; a maintenance release of Micronaut; a new extension, Quarkus Shim; and a new Oracle AI Agent Studio for Fusion Applications.

By Michael Redlich

DoorDash Uses Envoy and Valkey for a 1.5M RPS Proxy Cache with 99.99999% Availability

Leela Kumili — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:53:00 GMT

DoorDash has developed Entity Cache, a transparent proxy caching platform built on Envoy and Valkey to reduce redundant service-to-service requests across its microservices architecture. Operating within DoorDash’s service mesh, the platform serves over 1.5M requests per second with 99.99999% availability through caching, event-driven invalidation, failure handling, and performance optimizations.

By Leela Kumili

Three InfoQ Certification Cohorts Start This August: Meet the Facilitators

Artenisa Chatziou — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

InfoQ has opened enrollment for three five-week online certification cohorts starting in August, each led by a senior practitioner applying QCon talk frameworks to participants' own work: architecture with Luca Mezzalira, engineering leadership with Michelle Brush, and AI security and privacy with Katharine Jarmul.

By Artenisa Chatziou

Presentation: Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded

Max Körbächer — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:50:00 GMT

Max Korbacher explains why successful internal development platforms cannot be built on tech alone. He discusses the pitfalls of infrastructure-first thinking, the importance of a clear product mindset, and how to measure real value using DevEx and SPACE metrics. Learn how to align your team, manage tech debt, and foster a thriving community to ensure lasting platform adoption.

By Max Körbächer

Podcast: Strands Agents with Clare Liguori

Clare Liguori — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Thomas Betts talks with Clare Liguori, the technical lead on the open source Strands Agents SDK. The conversation covers how Strands Agents has grown from a Python SDK to a full agent harness running in production. Clare shares some lessons learned from building agents at scale, shifting to a model-driven architecture, and what comes next as the LLMs that underpin agents continue to improve.

By Clare Liguori

AWS Releases Loom, an Open-Source Reference Platform for Governing AI Agents at Enterprise Scale

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:04:00 GMT

AWS released Loom, an open-source reference platform on AWS Labs for governing AI agents at scale. Built on Strands Agents and Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, it implements RFC 8693 token exchange for identity propagation through delegated actor chains, config-driven deployments without runtime code generation, and mandatory tagging. AWS positions it as an example, not a managed service.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

How Netflix Built GenPage: a Single GenAI Model to Build Personalized Homepages

Sergio De Simone — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMT

GenPage is a generative AI system developed by Netflix to replace its traditional multi-stage recommendation pipeline by directly generating personalized user homepages. GenPage leverages user history and request context as a prompt to produce the entire page, resulting in improved user engagement and reduced serving latency.

By Sergio De Simone

Google's AlphaEvolve Reaches General Availability with Evolutionary Code Optimization as a Service

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 10:16:00 GMT

Google's AlphaEvolve reached general availability on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, turning the DeepMind research project into an evolutionary code optimization service. Evaluators run client-side so code never leaves the customer's infrastructure. Klarna doubled ML training throughput; practitioners note it only works where a measurable evaluation function exists.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

AWS Introduces CloudFormation Express Mode for Faster Infrastructure Deployments

Renato Losio — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 05:59:00 GMT

AWS has recently introduced CloudFormation express mode, a deployment option that can reduce infrastructure deployment times by marking stack operations complete once resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for full resource stabilization.

By Renato Losio