InfoQ - Cloud

Google Cloud Suspends Railway's Production Account, Causing Eight-Hour Platform-Wide Outage

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:03:00 GMT

Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cascade took down workloads across all providers including AWS and bare metal because Railway's control plane was hosted on GCP. Railway is demoting GCP to backup-only status.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

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

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: 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

AWS MCP Server Reaches GA with Full API Coverage and IAM-Based Governance

Renato Losio — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:53:00 GMT

AWS has recently made its managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server generally available, giving AI coding agents controlled access to AWS APIs, documentation, and operational workflows through a standard interface. It provides a safer and more auditable way to connect AI agents to AWS services without handing over broad credentials.

By Renato Losio

Google Cloud Introduces Cross-Engine Iceberg Support in BigQuery

Renato Losio — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:42:00 GMT

At the Apache Iceberg Summit last month, Google announced new interoperability features for Apache Iceberg in BigQuery. The preview of the serverless Iceberg REST catalog lets teams create, update, and query the same Apache Iceberg tables in BigQuery and in engines like Spark, Flink, and Trino without duplicating data.

By Renato Losio

Cloudflare Completes Its Agent Infrastructure Stack with Browser Run Rebuild and Six-Layer Platform

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:21:00 GMT

Cloudflare rebuilt Browser Run on its own Containers platform, delivering 4x higher concurrency and 50% faster response times. The upgrade completes a six-layer agent infrastructure stack: compute (Dynamic Workers + Sandboxes), orchestration (Dynamic Workflows), memory (Agent Memory), browsing (Browser Run), and commerce (Stripe Projects).

By Steef-Jan Wiggers