Engineering
InfoQ
Anthropic Explains How Claude Builds Its Own Execution Harnesses
Anthropic has published additional details about the orchestration system behind Claude Code's recently introduced Dynamic Workflows, highlighting how the feature generates custom execution harnesses designed to coordinate teams of AI agents for complex tasks. By Robert Krzaczyński
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
AWS Blog
AWS WAF adds AI traffic monetization capability to help content owners charge AI bots for content access
AWS WAF launches AI traffic monetization, a new Bot Control capability that enables content providers and publishers price, meter, and collect payment from AI bots and agents accessing their content and APIs. AWS WAF now lets you set a price for that access, accept payment through third-party provid…
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
Stack Overflow Blog
Selenium vs Cypress vs Playwright: Choosing Your Test Automation Framework
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
Stack Overflow Blog
AI agents expose the security checks you never actually wrote
How attackers took twenty thousand Instagram accounts by asking Meta's AI politely, and why that failure is about to become common.…
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
Spring News Roundup: Point Releases of Boot, Security, Integration, Modulith and Spring AI 2.0
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of June 8th, 2026, highlighting point releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Session, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring AMQP and Spring Vault; and GA releases of Spring AI 2.0 and Spring Data 2026.0.0. By Mic…
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
Presentation: Practical Performance Tuning for Serverless Java on AWS
AWS Hero Vadym Kazulkin explains how to overcome Java’s enterprise hurdle on AWS Lambda: cold starts and memory footprints. He shares a technical deep dive into performance tuning, comparing fully managed AWS SnapStart (with pre-snapshot priming hooks) against GraalVM ahead-of-time compilation, whil…
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
ArrowJS Reaches 1.0, Recast as the First UI Framework for the Agentic Era
ArrowJS, developed by Justin Schroeder, is a reactive UI library that has reached its 1.0 release after three years in development. It utilizes core web technologies, avoids JSX and compilers. Notable features include an optional WASM sandbox for executing untrusted code. The framework's minimalism…
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
Cloudflare Blog
Growing the Cloudflare AI team with talent from Ensemble AI
Cloudflare is deepening our investment in AI with the addition of team members from Ensemble AI, focusing on machine learning infrastructure and efficiency.
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
AWS Blog
AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS FinOps Agent in preview, Gemma 4 on Bedrock, Kiro Pro Max, and more (June 15, 2026)
This week, New York City is hosting AWS Summit, bringing together builders, customers, and AWS teams for a full day of announcements, demos, and technical sessions at the Javits Center. I wrote blog posts for some of the Summit launches, so I am excited to see them go live this week. I just won’t be…
Jun 15, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
AWS Introduces Durable Storage Option for ElastiCache for Valkey
AWS has recently introduced durability for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, enabling reliable data retention across failures and expanding support beyond caching to persistent workloads. The feature offers new options that prioritize either minimizing data loss or maintaining lower write latency, expa…
Jun 14, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
Terraform MCP Server Enables AI Assistants to Interact with Terraform Infrastructure
HashiCorp has announced the general availability of the Terraform MCP Server, an open-source MCP server that enables agents to integrate with Terraform Registry APIs. The company says that it can improve infrastructure teams productivity by relieving engineers of rote tasks. By Sergio De Simone
Jun 13, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
AWS Introduces CDK Mixins for Composable Infrastructure Abstractions
AWS recently announced CDK Mixins, a new AWS CDK feature that lets developers add reusable capabilities like security, monitoring, and configuration to AWS resources. Mixins work across different construct types, making infrastructure code more flexible and reusable. By Renato Losio
Jun 13, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
WebMCP Standard Proposal for Agentic Web Actuation Now Available in Chrome (Origin Trials)
Google recently announced that WebMCP is entering origin trials in Chrome 149. The new WebMCP standard proposal lets sites expose tools (e.g., JavaScript functions and HTML forms) to in-browser AI agents, which can thus reliably simulate user actions instead of resorting to possibly expensive (e.g.,…
Jun 13, 2026
Engineering
Dropbox Tech
How Dropbox uses MCP and Dash to close the design-to-code security gap
Using an agentic AI system to surface threat models during code review and spot gaps between security requirements and implementation.
Jun 12, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
Google Launches Colab CLI for Developers, Automation, and AI Agents
Google has announced the Google Colab CLI, a command-line tool that allows developers and AI agents to interact with remote Colab runtimes directly from a local terminal. By Daniel Dominguez
Jun 12, 2026
Engineering
Stack Overflow Blog
Designing CherryScript: Optimizing Data-Driven Workflows via Custom Python-Based Interpreters
Jun 12, 2026
Engineering
InfoQ
Slack Eliminates SSH in EMR Pipelines, Migrates 700+ Jobs to Rest-Based Architecture
Slack modernized its data platform by replacing SSH based execution in Amazon EMR pipelines with a REST driven orchestration layer called Quarry. The migration covered 700 plus Airflow operators, improving security, reliability, and observability while eliminating direct SSH access across production…
Jun 12, 2026
Engineering
Stack Overflow Blog
What's the facts, Charity? How do I get my leaders to stop running teams Into the ground?
Capacity is one of the hardest problems because it sits at the knotty, gnarled-up intersection of so many other hard problems.…
Jun 12, 2026
Engineering
Cloudflare Blog
Scaling Security Insights: how we achieved a 10x increase in global scanning capacity
Cloudflare Security Insights system now processes over 120 scans per second, providing frequent insights for all customers. By optimizing Kafka consumers, Postgres queries, and our API, we scaled our throughput 10x without adding hardware.
Jun 12, 2026
Engineering
Stack Overflow Blog
Developers are emotionally attached to their tools
Ryan welcomes Trisha Gee, a Java champion and developer productivity advocate, to explore how AI is transforming the role of IDEs and the broader developer experience; the relevance of traditional tools, muscle memory, the risks of hype; and how to adapt workflows for AI-driven development.…
Jun 12, 2026
Engineering
The Pragmatic Engineer
The Pulse: Did Anthropic’s new model just boost rival Codex’s market share?
Anthropic’s new model, Fable, has restrictions many users find unacceptable. Also: a new trend of smart model routing, Coinbase’s core service has no automatic cross-zone failover, and more.
Jun 11, 2026
Engineering
Stack Overflow Blog
When the cost of code approaches zero, what does engineering leadership look like?
On this episode of Leaders of Code, Eric Anderson, director of engineering at Intuit, joins Stack Overflow engineering director Ben Matthews to talk about what happens to software teams when AI makes code generation seemingly free.…
Jun 11, 2026
Engineering
AWS Blog
Now available: Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances powered by new AWS Graviton5 processors
AWS launches Amazon EC2 M9g and M9gd instances, powered by AWS Graviton5 processors. AWS Graviton5 is most powerful, and most energy efficient processor AWS has ever built, and offers up to 25% better compute performance compared to Graviton4-based instances.
Jun 10, 2026
Engineering
Stack Overflow Blog
Announcing Stack Overflow for Agents
If your coding agent has questions, Stack Overflow for Agents has answers, now in beta.…
Jun 10, 2026
Engineering
Spotify Engineering
Encoding Your Domain Expert: The Context Layer Behind Spotify's Data Assistant
At Spotify, data problems used to follow a specific pattern. You'd look for the relevant dashboard, there... The post Encoding Your Domain Expert: The Context Layer Behind Spotify's Data Assistant appeared first on Spotify Engineering .
Jun 10, 2026
Engineering
Cloudflare Blog
Route public traffic to private applications with Cloudflare
Application Services for Private Origins is available now in closed beta. Route public hostnames to private IP origins over your existing IPsec, GRE, CNI, or Cloudflare Mesh paths. No public IPs or extra connector software required.
Jun 10, 2026
Engineering
AWS Blog
Anthropic Claude Fable 5 on AWS: Mythos-class capabilities with built-in safeguards now available
AWS announces the availability of Claude Fable 5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Fable 5 delivers Mythos-level capabilities available to all customers, with strong safeguards designed to make it safe for broader use.
Jun 09, 2026
Engineering
Airbnb Engineering
Scaling beyond one: How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for a multi-product world
How Airbnb’s data engineers and analytics engineers built a consistent and flexible data modeling framework to support the expansion into Homes, Experiences, and Services. By : Patrick Lam , Namrata Lamba , Jamie Stober With the May 2025 Summer Release, Airbnb redesigned its app, relaunched Experien…
Jun 09, 2026
Engineering
The Pragmatic Engineer
State of the software engineering job market in 2026, part 2
Deepdive into the tech jobs market with exclusive data revealing AI labs are more attractive than Big Tech, native mobile & frontend roles are declining, management’s “great flattening”, and more
Jun 09, 2026
Engineering
Cloudflare Blog
Defend against frontier cyber models: Cloudflare's architecture as customer zero
In our post about Project Glasswing, we made the argument that the architecture around a vulnerability matters more than the speed of the patch. Here we walk through what that architecture looks like, the threats it defends against, and how we run it ourselves as Cloudflare's customer zero.
Jun 09, 2026
Engineering
AWS Blog
AWS Weekly Roundup: BYOM for Amazon RDS for SQL Server, AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift, and more (June 8, 2026)
This week, the AWS IoT Device SDK for Swift reached general availability. As a member of the Swift Server Workgroup (SSWG), this one caught my attention. The SDK brings production-ready MQTT 5 connectivity, Device Shadow, Jobs, and fleet provisioning to Swift developers on macOS, iOS,…
Jun 08, 2026
Engineering
Cloudflare Blog
Turning Cloudflare’s threat indicators into real-time WAF rules
Cloudflare customers can now use Cloudforce One threat intelligence directly within the WAF to block high-risk traffic. By using new cf.intel fields, security teams can automate protection against specific threat actors and targeted industries in real time.
Jun 08, 2026
Engineering
AWS Blog
Try the new console experience in Amazon Bedrock, optimized for Anthropic- and OpenAI-compatible APIs
You can use the new console experience on Amazon Bedrock to browse and compare the latest AI models side by side, organize work into projects with streamlined evaluation workflows, and access project-aware live documentation with auto-prefilled code snippets ready to copy and run.
Jun 05, 2026
Engineering
Cloudflare Blog
Your AI bill is out of control. Cloudflare can fix it now.
AI Gateway now features real-time spend limits to prevent runaway token bills across multiple AI providers. By integrating with Cloudflare Access, companies can use identity-driven budgets and policies.
Jun 05, 2026
Engineering
Airbnb Engineering
Sitar-agent: Building a reliable dynamic configuration sidecar at scale
How Airbnb built a Kubernetes sidecar to deliver dynamic configuration reliably at scale. By : Bo Teng , Cosmo Qiu , Siyuan Zhou , Ankur Soni , Xin Huang , Willis Harvey Introduction In our previous post , we explored Airbnb’s dynamic configuration system, Sitar, with a focus on service architecture…
Jun 04, 2026
Engineering
AWS Blog
Improve your application resilience with Amazon Cognito multi-Region replication
Amazon Cognito now offers multi-Region replication that automatically synchronizes user data, credentials, and pool configurations to a secondary AWS Region, enabling uninterrupted authentication during regional failovers without forced password resets—plus new support for customer managed KMS keys…
Jun 03, 2026
Engineering
The Pragmatic Engineer
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower
Kelsey Hightower reflects on his journey from self-taught technician to Google Distinguished Engineer, sharing lessons on open source, Kubernetes, AI, and building technology that serves people.
Jun 03, 2026
Engineering
Meta Engineering
Lights Out, Systems On: Validating Instant Power Loss Readiness
We’re introducing Instantaneous PowerLoss Storm, a new testing paradigm within Meta’s infrastructure for handling and mitigating instant or zero-notice power loss in our data centers. We’re sharing: how we built readiness to tolerate instant failures into our existing systems with defense-in-depth s…
Jun 03, 2026
Engineering
Spotify Engineering
Coding Is No Longer the Constraint: Scaling Developer Experience to Teams and Agents at Spotify
At Code with Claude, Spotify’s chief architect shared how we make both teams and AI agents more effective. The post Coding Is No Longer the Constraint: Scaling Developer Experience to Teams and Agents at Spotify appeared first on Spotify Engineering .
Jun 03, 2026
Engineering
Airbnb Engineering
When history fails you, borrow from geography
How Airbnb used sequential geographic recovery signals and prior propagation to generate reliable corridor-level forecasts when local data was scarce. By: Harrison Katz The problem with unprecedented shocks Almost every forecasting system is built on the same implicit assumption: the future will res…
Jun 02, 2026
Engineering
The Pragmatic Engineer
Ideas: slow down to speed up when working with AI agents
Devs are generating twice as much code (or more) than just 6 months ago, which is a problem for quality, reliability, and tech debt. A rational fix is available for these, but who’s acting rationally?
Jun 02, 2026
Engineering
Martin Fowler
Fragments: June 2
Greg Wilson has noticed that lots of folks are using dodgy metrics to figure out if AI tools are worth their costs. Would you measure lines of code generated, or tickets closed? Or would you send out a survey asking whether developers feel more productive? Each of those approaches is flawed in a dif…
Jun 02, 2026
Engineering
Dropbox Tech
Beyond code generation: rethinking engineering productivity in the age of AI agents
How Dropbox is moving from AI tools that assist engineers to agentic systems that can execute scoped tasks, and how we’re building platforms to support those workflows.
May 28, 2026
Engineering
The Pragmatic Engineer
The Pulse: a trend of trying to cut back on AI spend within eng departments?
Top-down and bottom-up efforts to rationalize AI token spend, interesting AI coding stats from Cursor, GCP suspends $2M/month customer without warning, and more
May 28, 2026
Engineering
Martin Fowler
Fragments: May 27
At the GOTO Conference in Copenhagen in 2025, Kent Beck and I spent some time on stage talking and answering questions from the audience - a format I refer to as “two old geezers on a park bench”. We talk about our experiences with LLM-augmented programming (at that point - October 2025), we show ou…
May 27, 2026
Engineering
Martin Fowler
The test suite as a regression sensor
Birgitta Böckeler finishes her post on sensors for coding agents by examining the role of a test suite as a regression sensor, focusing on the role mutation testing can play. more…
May 27, 2026
Engineering
Martin Fowler
The VibeSec Reckoning
Vibe coding has significantly accelerated software prototyping but AI agents frequently recommend insecure configurations, creating security problems. Gautam Koul, Lucian Moss, Neil Drew-Lopez, and Daberechi Ruth Edeokoh share their experience while building applications for Thoughtworks's global ma…
May 27, 2026
Engineering
Meta Engineering
SilverTorch: Index as Model — A New Retrieval Paradigm for Recommendation Systems
We’re introducing SilverTorch, a reimagining of recommendation systems that unifies all retrieval components for user generated content under a unified architecture. SilverTorch shows up to 23.7x higher throughput compared to the state-of-the-art approaches. It’s also showing 20.9x more compute cost…
May 26, 2026
Engineering
Dropbox Tech
Introducing Nova, our internal platform for coding agents
Nova lets engineers run multiple coding sessions in parallel and lets internal systems use AI agents as part of automated workflows.
May 21, 2026
Engineering
Martin Fowler
Bliki: Vibe Coding
Vibe coding is building a software application by prompting an LLM, telling it what to build, trying it out, prompting for changes - but without looking at any of the code that the LLM generates. This technique can be used by people without any knowledge of programming. However the resulting softwar…
May 21, 2026
Engineering
Airbnb Engineering
Scaling Airbnb’s identity graph with a unified knowledge graph infrastructure
How Airbnb shifts from PaaS to an internal knowledge graph infrastructure at scale. By: Lucen Zhao , Shukun Yang , Ashish Jain Knowledge graphs offer a natural and powerful way to represent relationships between entities. Many real-world systems are fundamentally about connections. Airbnb’s identity…
May 19, 2026
Engineering
Spotify Engineering
Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork
TL;DR LLM evals, automated judges that assess relevance, coherence, and quality at scale, are a powerful new... The post Better Experiments with LLM Evals — A funnel, not a fork appeared first on Spotify Engineering .
May 18, 2026
Engineering
GitHub Blog
From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance
How the GitHub Issues team used client-side caching, smart prefetching, and service workers to make navigation feel instant. The post From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
May 14, 2026
Engineering
Airbnb Engineering
Viaduct 1.0 and the future of Airbnb’s data mesh
Moving from an internal tool to a community-driven, production-ready data mesh. By : Ryan Tanner , Raymie Stata , Adam Miskiewicz Introduction We’re excited to announce the 1.0 release of the Viaduct. This release marks a shift from Viaduct being an Airbnb-internal tool that happens to be open sourc…
May 13, 2026
Engineering
Meta Engineering
Reel Friends: Building Social Discovery that Scales to Billions
On its face the new Friend Bubbles feature looks simple enough. It highlights Reels your friends have watched and reacted to. But sometimes the features that seem the most straightforward require the deepest engineering work. On this episode of the Meta Tech Podcast, Pascal Hartig chats with Subasre…
May 13, 2026
Engineering
Meta Engineering
Migrating Data Ingestion Systems at Meta Scale
Meta’s data ingestion system, which our engineering teams leverage for up-to-date snapshots of the social graph, has recently undergone a significant revamp to enhance its reliability at scale. Moving from our legacy system to our new architecture required a large-scale migration of our entire data…
May 12, 2026
Engineering
Meta Engineering
Labyrinth 1.1: Making End-to-End Encrypted Backups Even More Reliable
We’re rolling out version 1.1 of Labyrinth, the encrypted storage system and protocol that secures messages and history on Messenger. Labyrinth 1.1 enhances the reliability of end-to-end encrypted backups with a new sub-protocol that helps messages survive the loss of a device, a switched device, an…
May 11, 2026
Engineering
Spotify Engineering
Building a Natural Language Interface to the Spotify Ads API with Claude Code Plugins
Turning OpenAPI spec and Markdown files into a conversational ads management tool — no compiled code required. The post Building a Natural Language Interface to the Spotify Ads API with Claude Code Plugins appeared first on Spotify Engineering .
May 01, 2026
Engineering
Spotify Engineering
Background Coding Agents: Supercharging Downstream Consumer Dataset Migrations (Honk, Part 4)
How we used Honk, Backstage, and Fleet Management to ease the pain of migrating thousands of datasets. The post Background Coding Agents: Supercharging Downstream Consumer Dataset Migrations (Honk, Part 4) appeared first on Spotify Engineering .
Apr 22, 2026