InfoQ - Cloud

Building and Scaling a Platform with Project-as-a-Service

Ben Linders — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:17:00 GMT

When a platform started with total developer autonomy, teams felt overwhelmed and ended up solving the same problems in completely different ways. The company shifted to enablement over support, working together with teams intensively, and helping teams feel confident and capable, turning the right way into being the easiest way.

By Ben Linders

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Codex Reach General Availability on Amazon Bedrock

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:24:00 GMT

OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, one month after OpenAI revised its exclusive Azure arrangement. Pricing matches OpenAI's direct rates with usage counting toward AWS commitments. Codex shifts to pay-per-token billing with no seat fees. GPT-5.4 is the first OpenAI model available in AWS GovCloud.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Azure API Management Ships Unified Model API and MCP Content Safety at Build 2026

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:38:00 GMT

Azure API Management shipped a Unified Model API that lets clients speak one format while APIM transforms requests to Anthropic, Vertex AI, and other backends. Content safety policies now cover MCP tool calls and Agent-to-Agent payloads alongside LLM traffic. Token metrics expanded to track reasoning, cached, and audio tokens across providers.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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

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

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

How a Culture of Data-Driven Conversations Can Support Platform Engineering

Ben Linders — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:54:00 GMT

To provide SRE as a service, a team built a center of excellence, introducing Federated SREs and roles like production manager and technical tribe lead. They created a culture of data-driven conversations where SLOs and SLAs were democratised. Surviving growing cognitive load meant continuously simplifying architecture and embedding sovereignty and resilience into platform design decisions.

By Ben Linders

AWS Replaces Fat-Tree Data Center Networks with Random Graph Theory, Cutting Routers by 69%

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:25:00 GMT

AWS disclosed that Resilient Network Graphs, a flat network architecture based on quasi-random graph theory, is now the default for most new data center builds. The design replaces fat-tree hierarchies with direct ToR-to-ToR mesh connections using passive optical ShuffleBoxes, cutting routers by 69%, boosting throughput by 33%, and reducing network power consumption by 40%.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Article: Two Misconfigurations That Caused Spark OOM Failures on Kubernetes

Pranav Bhasker — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT

After migrating Spark pipelines to Azure Kubernetes Service, two infrastructure settings interacted destructively: spark.kubernetes.local.dirs.tmpfs=true backed shuffle spill with RAM instead of disk, and a hard podAffinity rule forced all executors onto one node. Together, they caused repeated OOM kills invisible to standard diagnostics.

By Pranav Bhasker

A Trailing Slash Bypassed AWS API Gateway Authorization

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 09:55:00 GMT

A security researcher found that adding a trailing slash to AWS HTTP API paths bypassed Lambda authorizer authentication entirely, enabling unauthenticated wire transfers at a fintech. The root cause is a path normalization mismatch between HTTP API's greedy route matching and its authorization layer. The same vulnerability class appeared in gRPC-Go via CVE-2026-33186.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers