InfoQ - Cloud Architecture

Presentation: Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure

Sam Newman — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Sam Newman discusses the concept of progressive collapse in civil engineering and how it applies to distributed systems. Using real-world examples - from the 1968 Ronan Point tower failure to AWS outages - he shares crucial resilience engineering strategies for software leaders. Learn how to strengthen components, isolate failures, and reduce interconnections to prevent catastrophic cascades.

By Sam Newman

Cloudflare Migrates JavaScript CDN Serving 9B Requests a Day to Its Developer Platform

Leela Kumili — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:42:00 GMT

Cloudflare has migrated cdnjs, its open source CDN for JavaScript and CSS libraries, to its Developer Platform. The new architecture uses Workers, R2, KV, Workflows, Queues, Durable Objects and Containers, consolidating publishing and delivery infrastructure while preserving package contents, URLs and SRI hashes at a scale of 9 billion requests per day.

By Leela Kumili

Podcast: Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2026: AI, Resilience, Platforms, FinOps, and Sovereignty

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domains as part of our annual trends report. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of key topics to watch. This podcast offers a chance to hear our raw conversation and the stories shared by our expert practitioners.

By Daniel Bryant, Matt Saunders, Shweta Vohra, Steef-Jan Wiggers, Mark Silvester, Renato Losio

Canva Shares S3 Based Architecture for Session Revocation across Hundreds of Millions of Sessions

Leela Kumili — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:14:00 GMT

Canva redesigned session revocation infrastructure to support 100M active sessions while reducing database lookups. The architecture uses Amazon S3 for durable revocation records and distributes compact, in-memory indexes to application gateways. Canva said the design improved deployment speed, reduced database infrastructure requirements, and cut the revocation cache memory footprint by 87.5%.

By Leela Kumili