InfoQ - Architecture & Design

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

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 Continuum to Enable Agentic Code Security for Enterprises

Gianmarco Nalin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Amazon Web Services has recently introduced AWS Continuum, a new integrated security platform to automate the discovery, enforcement, and remediation of security issues across codebases, dependencies, and applications. AWS Continuum launches with four agentic capabilities, aiming at the entire vulnerability lifecycle: penetration testing, code review, threat modelling, and code vulnerabilities.

By Gianmarco Nalin

Presentation: The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect

Ruth Linehan — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:20:00 GMT

Ruth Linehan explains how migrating high-performance caching services from Kotlin to Rust shattered internal preconceptions around delivery velocity and engineering overhead. She discusses the ergonomics of the Rust borrow checker, shares how compile-time safety shortens the developer feedback loop, and profiles how tools like Criterion and flamegraphs optimize concurrent code paths.

By Ruth Linehan

AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:17:00 GMT

A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in one day after attackers extracted static access keys and burned Claude invocations on Bedrock. Combined with May's DN42 incident, where an autonomous agent provisioned $6,531 of oversized infrastructure in 24 hours, practitioners warn that cloud billing lags roughly a day behind agent-speed spend.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Stripe Benchmark Shows AI Agents Build Integrations but Struggle with Validation

Leela Kumili — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:25:00 GMT

Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end software engineering capability, focusing on execution, testing, and validation gaps in agentic systems under production-like constraints.

By Leela Kumili

AWS Ships Claude Apps Gateway as Self-Hosted Control Plane for Claude Code and Claude Desktop

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:04:00 GMT

AWS and Anthropic have released the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, routing, and spend caps for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The gateway runs as a single stateless container and routes inference to Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Google and Industry Partners Announce Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for AI Agents

Leela Kumili — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:40:00 GMT

Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dynamic capability discovery while leveraging existing protocols such as MCP and OpenAPI for execution and emphasizing trust and interoperability.

By Leela Kumili

Presentation: Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends

Luca Mezzalira — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:42:00 GMT

Luca Mezzalira shares proven learnings from guiding hundreds of teams through the migration from monolithic web applications to distributed frontend architectures. He explains the core architectural difference between components and micro-frontends, outlines a 6-step decision framework spanning client vs. server rendering, and discusses how to utilize edge compute for safe, iterative rollouts.

By Luca Mezzalira

Google's Genkit Ships Agents API with Detached Turns and Human-in-the-Loop for TypeScript and Go

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:17:00 GMT

Google released the Genkit Agents API in preview for TypeScript and Go. The open-source framework packages message history, tool loops, streaming, and state persistence behind a single chat() interface. Detached turns let agents work after clients disconnect. Interruptible tools provide human-in-the-loop control with anti-forgery validation on resume.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers