https://www.infoq.com InfoQ Microservices News feed https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/doordash-ai-ask-assistant/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Microservices-news <img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/07/doordash-ai-ask-assistant/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1782515732223.jpg"/><p>DoorDash details the architecture behind Ask DoorDash, its AI-powered conversational shopping assistant, combining LLMs, specialized AI agents, MCP-based tooling, and an intelligence layer with persistent consumer memory and live backend data. Early results show up to 24% higher checkout conversion, 17% larger baskets, and improved intent accuracy using memory-backed sessions.</p> <i>By Leela Kumili</i> Natural Language Processing Distributed Systems Microservices Retrieval-Augmented Generation Large language models Agents Artificial Intelligence ChatBots Model Context Protocol (MCP) Memory Prompt Engineering Platform Engineering Development AI, ML & Data Engineering Architecture & Design news Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:08:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/doordash-ai-ask-assistant/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Microservices-news Leela Kumili 2026-07-13T14:08:00Z /news/2026/07/doordash-ai-ask-assistant/en https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/sitar-agent-sidecar-config/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Microservices-news <img src="https://www.infoq.com/styles/static/images/logo/logo_bigger.jpg"/><p>Airbnb engineers detailed Sitar-agent, a Kubernetes sidecar for dynamic configuration delivery across tens of thousands of pods, processing updates several times per minute. The system was redesigned with Java, Amazon S3 snapshot bootstrapping, and a migration from Sparkey to SQLite to improve reliability, startup performance, and configuration availability at scale.</p> <i>By Leela Kumili</i> Distributed Systems Reliability Agents S3 Kubernetes Ruby Java Bootstrap Feature Toggle Microservices Cloud Sidecar SQLite Caching Configuration Management Platforms Edge Development DevOps Architecture & Design Culture & Methods news Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:25:00 GMT https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/07/sitar-agent-sidecar-config/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=Microservices-news Leela Kumili 2026-07-08T14:25:00Z /news/2026/07/sitar-agent-sidecar-config/en