Azure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility
Azure Front Door (ADF) is Microsoft’s advanced cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) designed to provide fast, reliable, and…
Empowering Teams: Decentralizing Architectural Decision-Making
Key Takeaways
Teams can make any decision after seeking advice from affected parties and documenting it in…
The Architectural Shift: AI Agents Become Execution Engines While Backends Retreat to Governance
A fundamental shift in enterprise software architecture is emerging as AI agents transition from assistive tools to operational…
InfoQ Expands Architect Certification with Five-Week Online Cohort Program
InfoQ has expanded its software architect certification offerings with a new online certification program designed to help senior…
Open Practices for Architecture and AI Adoption
The Cloud Native Summit recently released videos from its 2025 conference in Auckland. The sessions included several talks…
Pinterest Unifies Engineering Tools with New Pinconsole Platform
Pinterest has introduced PinConsole, a unified internal developer platform(IDP) to centralize engineering workflows into a single interface. PinConsole…
FedCM: A New Proposed Identity Standard That Could Change How We Log In on the Web
Key Takeaways
FedCM is a newly proposed browser API offering frictionless federated login.
The API is supported…
Timeouts, Retries and Idempotency In Distributed Systems
Transcript Newman: I’m going to be talking about something very basic, which is almost like the fundamental ideas…
Netflix Revamps Tudum’s CQRS Architecture with RAW Hollow In-Memory Object Store
Netflix replaced a CQRS implementation using Kafka and Cassandra with a new solution leveraging RAW Hollow, an…
State Space Models Can Enable AI in Low-Power Edge Computing
At the the 2025 Embedded Vision Summit, in May 2025, in Santa Clara, California, Tony Lewis, chief technology…
AI Coding Tools Underperform in Field Study with Experienced Developers
A recent study challenges the widespread belief that AI tools accelerate software development. Researchers at METR conducted a…
Grab Switches from SQS and Redis to Temporal for Its Subscription Platform
Grab based the new architecture for GrabUnlimited on Temporal. The company enhanced user experience and reduced production incidents…