[Video Podcast] Improving Valkey with Madelyn Olson

Watch the video: Transcript Thomas Betts: Hello, and welcome to the InfoQ Podcast. I’m Thomas Betts. Today I’m speaking with Madelyn Olson. Madelyn is the maintainer of the Valkey project and a principal software development engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Memory DB, focusing on building secure and highly reliable features for the Valkey engine. … Read more

Java News Roundup: WildFly 39, Open Liberty, Spring Framework, JobRunr, Gradle, Micrometer

This week’s Java roundup for January 12th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of WildFly 39; point releases of JobRunr and Gradle; maintenance releases of Spring Framework and Micronaut; milestone releases of Micrometer Metrics and Micrometer Tracing; and a beta release of Open Liberty 26.0.0.1. OpenJDK JEP 527, Post-Quantum Hybrid Key Exchange for TLS … Read more

Azure Logic Apps Introduces ‘Agent Loop’ for Building AI Agents in Enterprise Workflows

At the annual Build conference, Microsoft announced agent loop, a new capability within Azure Logic Apps that allows developers to build AI agents directly into their enterprise workflows. Agent loop is a central component for AI Agent development within Logic Apps. It is a new action type integrating a chosen AI model (like Azure OpenAI), … Read more

Mezzalira at QCon London: Micro-Frontends From Design to Organisational Benefits and Deployments

During his QCon London presentation, Luca Mezzalira, principal architect at AWS, shared his experience in building the ideal micro frontend platform. He disclosed the recipe for determining if micro frontends are right for your company, as well as the core principles of creating the perfect architecture for your use case, and also provided deployment strategies … Read more

QCon London 2025 Day 1: Parsing Data from Space, Developer Joy, Local First Apps, Platforms

Day One of the 19th annual QCon London conference was held on April 7th, 2025, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, England. Key takeaways included: developer joy increases developer productivity; platforms are “not an island,” but organizations adopting them do so within an ecosystem; collaborative software can be fragile; and local-first software … Read more

Comprehensive Approaches to Software Supply Chain Security

Transcript Brodskyi: My name is Mykhailo Brodskyi. As Principal Software Architect, I focus on platform security and cloud migration. I’m going to walk you through top four security risk categories in software supply chain and show you how to mitigate them effectively. I will share real case studies from our projects, highlighting strategies that protect … Read more

Microsoft Launches Official Rust Support on Azure: First SDK Beta Release Unveiled

microsoft azure Embraces Rust: official SDK Beta Released, Challenging AWS in Cloud Development March 25, 2025 Rust Enters the Azure Cloud: A New Era for Secure and efficient Cloud Computing Redmond, WA – Microsoft has officially launched the beta version of its Azure SDK for Rust, marking a meaningful step towards empowering developers to build … Read more

Google Cloud Introduces HDD Tier for Spanner Database, Cutting Cold Storage Costs by 80%

Google has recently introduced tiered storage for Spanner, its distributed SQL database on Google Cloud. This tiered storage is based on a new HDD storage option that is 80% cheaper than the existing SSD option, allowing for cost optimization of older data while minimizing the overhead associated with traditional data migration. While the default SSD … Read more

Microsoft Enhances Azure Elastic SAN with Auto Scale, Snapshot Support, and CRC Protection

Microsoft recently announced several new updates to its iSCSI-based Azure Elastic SAN, a fully managed and cloud-native storage area network (SAN) offering. Since the general availability (GA) release of Azure Elastic SAN in early 2024, the company has introduced various new capabilities, such as a public preview of auto scale for capacity, the general availability … Read more

Java News Roundup: NetBeans 25, Payara Platform, Hibernate Reactive, Gradle

This week’s Java roundup for February 17th, 2025 features news highlighting: the release of Apache NetBeans 25; the February 2025 release of the Payara Platform; the second beta release of Hibernate Reactive 3.0; and the second release candidate of Gradle 8.13. JDK 24 Build 36 remains the current build in the JDK 24 early-access builds. … Read more