QConSF 2025: Humans in the Loop: Engineering Leadership in a Chaotic Industry
At QCon San Francisco 2025, Michelle Brush, engineering director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google, delivered the…
The Decisions You Don’t Know You’re Making: QCon Keynote Explores Hidden Choices in Engineering
Engineering teams make their most consequential decisions not in architecture reviews or sprint planning, but through invisible choices…
QCon SF: Database-Backed Workflow Orchestration Challenges Traditional Architecture
During QCon San Francisco 2025, Jeremy Edberg and Qian Li from DBOS presented a non-conventional architectural approach to…
Grails 7.0, Now Under the Apache Software Foundation, Delivers Enhancements for Micronaut and GORM
The release of Apache Grails 7.0.0 delivers bug fixes and notable changes such as: the ability to disable…
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…
Inside the Architectures Powering Modern AI Systems: QCon San Francisco 2025
Senior software engineers are being asked to design and verify AI architectures without established patterns, modernize systems under…
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…
Rust Rewrite Enables Cloudflare to Boost CDN Performance and Enhance Security
By adopting Rust for one of its core subsystems, Cloudflare succeeded in reducing response time by 10 ms…
Cloudflare Introduces Email Service to Compete with Amazon SES, Resend, and SendGrid
During Cloudflare’s recent Birthday Week, the company announced the private preview of its Cloudflare Email Service. This new…
Terraform Google Cloud Provider 7.0 Reaches General Availability
HashiCorp has announced the general availability of version 7.0 of the Terraform provider for Google Cloud, introducing…
HashiCorp Warns Traditional Secret Scanning Tools Are Falling Behind
HashiCorp has issued a warning that traditional secret scanning tools are failing to keep up with the realities…
New DNS Armor Service Helps Google Cloud Workloads Preemptively Block Cyber Threats
Google Cloud has launched DNS Armor, a new cloud-native security service developed in partnership with Infoblox. The service…