InfoQ - Architecture

AWS Introduces Specification Driven Composition for Flexible Data Workflows

Leela Kumili — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:18:00 GMT

AWS describes a specification-driven approach for composing flexible data workflows by separating intent from processing logic. Architecture uses declarative specifications, reusable processing capabilities, and validation before execution. AWS reports that the approach can reduce dataset onboarding from weeks to days while supporting traceability, versioning, data classification, and governance.

By Leela Kumili

Article: Beyond Offset Lag: Computing Time in Queue for Apache Hudi Data Lake Pipelines at Petabyte Scale

Srikanth Mamidala — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 GMT

In this article, author Srikanth Mamidala discusses the data lake architecture used for analytics, reporting, and machine learning and shows how to manage the consumer lag metrics when using Kafka and Apache Hudi.

By Srikanth Mamidala

Article: Rightsizing Platform Engineering: Building the Platform Your Organization Actually Needs

John Keates — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Shift-left and DevOps have impacted how we flow changes from inception to production, but at the cost of increased cognitive load and duplication of effort across testing, security, and maintenance. This article explores the real-world challenges of rightsizing developer platforms and finding a cultural match for engineering teams who use them to reduce cognitive load and deliver change faster.

By John Keates

Presentation: Prompt to Prod: Engineering an Autonomous SDLC at Scale

Andrew Swerdlow — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Andrew Swerdlow shares how Roblox scales autonomous software development from prompt to production. He discusses building robust security sandboxes, extracting institutional knowledge via code review exemplars, updating engineering infrastructure, and redefining productivity metrics around feature velocity and long-running AI turns to achieve trusted, automated deployment at scale.

By Andrew Swerdlow

Presentation: SafeChat: Building AI-Powered Safety Systems at Scale in a Real-Time Marketplace

Bruna Pereira — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Bruna Pereira explains how DoorDash built a content-agnostic AI moderation platform. She covers replacing costly LLM-only pipelines with a hybrid pattern: using fast internal models to filter obvious cases, LLM multi-axis scoring for nuanced decisions, and no-code workflows with backtesting. Discover how this architectural pattern cut safety incidents while scaling to millions of daily messages.

By Bruna Pereira

Mini book: Architecture as a Socio-Technical Craft

InfoQ — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:30:00 GMT

Architecture is not a fixed choice made once; fitness is a moving target driven by changing regulations, tech, and markets. Even a sound design can silently stop fitting over time without bad calls. Spanning seven articles on context stores, gateways, and topologies, this collection treats architecture as an evolving sociotechnical craft where teams deliberately shape friction, fitness, and flow.

By InfoQ

Presentation: Enchant Your AI and APIs with eBPF Magic 🪄

Dan Finneran — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Dan Finneran discusses the risks of unowned AI-generated code in production and demonstrates how eBPF can intercept and control AI API traffic in Kubernetes. He explains how kernel-level socket hooks enable transparent prompt filtering, model swapping, token limits, and syscall restrictions to secure AI agents without modifying application source code or restarting containers.

By Dan Finneran

InfoQ Opens Enrollment for New AI-Assisted Engineering Online Certification Program

Artenisa Chatziou — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:00:00 GMT

InfoQ has opened enrollment for the InfoQ Certified AI-Assisted Engineering Program, a five-week online certification program for senior engineers and architects who already run a coding agent against production code daily, where the open questions have moved past prompting into what the agent is allowed to touch and what catches its mistakes before a human does.

By Artenisa Chatziou

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

Presentation: From Fab To Token - The State Of The Market

Jordan Nanos — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Jordan Nanos discusses how semiconductor constraints, data center expansion, and networking bottlenecks impact AI software architecture. Drawing from SemiAnalysis research, he shares insights on benchmark performance, GPU scaling, and tokenomics from chip fab to model inference.

By Jordan Nanos

Article: Agentic Fitness Functions: Extending Evolutionary Architecture Beyond Deterministic Rules

Hemant Kumar Mahato, Łukasz Sieczkowski, Vijayasenthilkumar Kuppusamy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

Deterministic rules safeguard hard metrics, but what about architectural intent? Discover how agentic fitness functions combine AI agents and versioned rubrics to evaluate complex, judgment-heavy concerns—such as boundary fidelity, semantic contract drift, and stale ADR assumptions. Elevate evolutionary architecture governance with continuous, calibrated feedback loops.

By Hemant Kumar Mahato, Łukasz Sieczkowski, Vijayasenthilkumar Kuppusamy

Podcast: Will Agentic AI Bring Fantasia’s Sorcerer's Apprentice to Life?: A Conversation with Tracy Bannon

Tracy Bannon — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:00:00 GMT

In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Tracy Bannon about the role of artificial intelligence in software and the attendant risks in the areas of security, software development, and society at large. While it might be reasonable to assume a certain amount of trust within a software ecosystem, the risks escalate when the boundary between two software ecosystems is crossed.

By Tracy Bannon

Presentation: From Thousands to One: Building LLM-Powered Selection Systems

Jendrik Jördening — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:06:00 GMT

Jendrik Jördening shares practical engineering strategies for integrating LLMs into production pipelines. He discusses overcoming non-determinism, restricting schemas, separating semantic text extraction from deterministic code, and validating choices using discriminator models. Learn how to structure LLMs with an MVC approach to ensure database integrity, observability, and system reliability.

By Jendrik Jördening