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QCon London 2026: Your Multi-Cloud Strategy Is a Product Problem — Treat It Like One

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:07:00 GMT

JP Morgan Chase engineers Luis Albinati and Surabhi Mahajan argued that multi-cloud complexity can't be solved with engineering alone. Speaking at QCon London, they showed how treating multi-cloud as a product with capability mapping, demand governance, and defined users tames the chaos.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

QCon London 2026: How to Run on Three Clouds at Once, and When Not to

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:12:00 GMT

Form3 runs UK bank payments across three clouds simultaneously. At QCon London, their engineers explained how they built their custom Kubernetes operators, cross-cloud DNS tricks, and distributed databases, and what happened when they tried to sell them in America. Spoiler: US customers wanted East/West failover, not triple-active multi-cloud.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Claude Opus 4.6 Introduces Adaptive Reasoning and Context Compaction for Long-Running Agents

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:01:00 GMT

Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 introduces "Adaptive Thinking" and a "Compaction API" to solve context rot in long-running agents. The model supports a 1M token context window with 76% multi-needle retrieval accuracy. While leading benchmarks in agentic coding, independent tests show a 49% detection rate for binary backdoors, highlighting the gap between SOTA claims and production security.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers