GitHub has announced that starting April 24, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve its AI models. Users are opted in by default and must manually disable the setting if they do not want their data used for training. Copilot Business and Enterprise users are excluded … Read more
Cloudflare recently released Dynamic Worker into open beta, available to all paid Workers users. The API allows a Cloudflare Worker to instantiate a new Worker at runtime with dynamically specified code, each running in its own isolated sandbox. The feature is aimed squarely at the growing need to safely execute AI-generated code, a challenge that … Read more
Discord has open-sourced Osprey, its internal event stream decisions engine capable of evaluating 2.3 million rules per second across 400 million daily actions. Engineered with a Rust coordinator and stateless Python worker nodes, Osprey provides a horizontally scalable architecture for real-time threat detection and mitigation. The project is managed in partnership with the ROOST organization … Read more
This week’s Java roundup for March 23rd, 2026, features news highlighting: GA releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools 1.0 and EclipseLink 5.0; the March 2026 edition of Open Liberty; fourth milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Modulith and Spring AI; a point release of Quarkus; the first development release of Infinispan; and a maintenance release … Read more
Key Takeaways Aligning architectural decision authority to C4 abstraction levels (context to Enterprise Architect, containers to Solution Architect, components to Solution Engineer, code to Tech Lead) gives distributed teams a clear ownership boundary without requiring a central approver for every choice. Architecture Governance Forums reduce bottlenecks when designed as escalation and alignment mechanisms … Read more
At QCon London 2026, Peter Morgan introduced Tansu, an open-source, Apache Kafka-compatible messaging broker he has been building solo for the past two years. The pitch was simple and deliberately provocative: what if you kept Kafka’s protocol, however, threw out everything else, the replication, the leader elections, the permanent broker state, and replaced it with … Read more
Engineers at Stripe have developed Minions, autonomous coding agents capable of completing software development tasks end-to-end from a single instruction. The system integrates large language models (LLMs) with internal developer tooling to generate production-ready pull requests with minimal human intervention. Stripe engineers reported that Minions now produce over 1,300 pull requests per week, up from … Read more
Jabez Eliezer Manuel, Senior Principal Engineer at Booking.com, presented Behind Booking.com’s AI Evolution: The Unpolished Story at QCon London 2026, where he discussed how Booking.com has evolved over the past 20 years and the challenges they faced on their journey to incorporate AI. Paying tribute to the 20th edition of QCon London, Manuel kicked off … Read more
To improve image cache management in their Android app, Grab engineers transitioned from a Least Recently Used (LRU) cache to a Time-Aware Least Recently Used (TLRU) cache, enabling them to reclaim storage more effectively without degrading user experience or increasing server costs. The Grab Android app used Glide as its primary image loading framework, including … Read more
WhatsApp’s engineering team has rewritten its media handling library in Rust, cutting the codebase from 160,000 lines of C++ down to 90,000 lines while adding memory safety protections. The library runs on billions of devices, such as Android phones, iPhones, desktops, watches, and web browsers, making this one of the largest client-side deployments of Rust … Read more