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QCon London 2026: Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet

Christine Lemmer-Webber, Executive Director at the Spritely Institute, and David Thompson, CTO at the Spritely Institute, presented “Spritely: Infrastructure for the Future of the Internet” at QCon London 2026, where they discussed how Spritely works to decentralize the Internet with new foundational technologies that put users in control.
infoq 23h ago 19°

How to Shape the Engineering Culture in Software Companies

You can find your way through an organization by figuring out what artifacts people leave behind, David Grizzanti mentioned at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston. He compared culture to anthropology, suggested studying behaviors, power dynamics, and decisions first, and then patiently model and reward new norms, build allies, and use influence and leading by example, to shift engineering culture over time.
infoq 43h ago 14°

QCon London 2026: Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time

At QCon London 2026, Spotify's Jo Kelly-Fenton and Aleksandar Mitic discussed Honk, an AI-powered coding agent that enables code migrations across Spotify's codebase. The system improves migration, reducing timelines drastically and addressing complexities that traditional scripts could not. Key challenges included handling edge cases and standardizing the codebase to facilitate review processes.
infoq 19h ago 12°

QCon London 2026: Morgan Stanley Rethinks Its API Program for the MCP Era

Morgan Stanley engineers Jim Gough and Andreea Niculcea showed how they're retooling the bank's API program for AI agents using MCP and FINOS CALM. Live demos covered compliance guardrails, deployment gates, and zero-downtime rollouts across 100+ APIs. First API deployment shrank from two years to two weeks. They also demoed Google's A2A protocol running alongside MCP.
infoq 48h ago 11°

QCon London 2026: Use<’lifetimes> For<’what>

At QCon London, TrueLayer engineer Ethan Brierley reframed Rust lifetimes using the Polonius borrow checker's mental model: lifetimes as sets of loans rather than regions of code. He built from borrow checker basics through variance and subtyping to higher-ranked lifetimes with serde, showing how the loans perspective makes previously confusing lifetime errors intuitive.
infoq 45h ago 10°

QCon London 2026: SBOMs Move From Best Practice to Legal Obligation as CRA Enforcement Looms

In a talk at QCon London 2026, Viktor Petersson argued that software teams are running out of time to adopt SBOMs (Software Bills of Materials) due to pending legislative changes in both the US and Europe.
infoq 1h ago

Article: Configuration as a Control Plane: Designing for Safety and Reliability at Scale

Configuration has evolved from static deployment files into a live control plane that directly shapes system behavior. The evolution of configuration management highlights why misconfigurations can trigger large outages and how hyperscalers deploy changes safely using staged rollouts, validation, blast radius limits, and automated rollback at scale.
infoq 27h ago

Where Do Humans Fit in AI-Assisted Software Development?

An article on Martin Fowler’s blog by Kief Morris examines the role of humans in AI-assisted software engineering, arguing developers are unlikely to move fully “out of the loop.” Instead, teams may work “on the loop,” designing tests, specifications, and feedback mechanisms to guide AI agents, as industry discussions focus on how such systems should be verified and governed.
infoq 44h ago

HubSpot’s Sidekick: Multi-Model AI Code Review with 90% Faster Feedback and 80% Engineer Approval

HubSpot engineers introduced Sidekick, an internal AI powered code review system that analyzes pull requests using large language models and filters feedback through a secondary “judge agent.” The system reduced time to first feedback on pull requests by about 90 percent and is now used across tens of thousands of internal pull requests.
infoq 25h ago

QCon London 2026: Wrangling Telemetry at Scale, a Guide to Self-Hosted Observability

At QCon London 2026, Colin Douch discussed building and operating self-hosted monitoring stacks, surveyed the current tooling landscape, and explained how to build a coherent observability setup rather than treating logs, metrics, and traces as separate pillars.
infoq 24h ago

AI Model Discovers 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities in Two Weeks

Claude Opus 4.6 discovered 22 Firefox vulnerabilities in two weeks, including 14 high-severity bugs, as nearly 20% of all critical Firefox vulnerabilities were fixed in 2025. The AI also wrote working exploits for two bugs, demonstrating emerging capabilities that give defenders a temporary advantage but signal an accelerating arms race in cybersecurity.
infoq 24h ago

Microsoft Adds DRA-Backed NVIDIA vGPU Support to AKS

The Azure Kubernetes Service team shared a detailed guide on how to use Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) with NVIDIA vGPU technology on AKS. his update improves control and efficiency for shared GPU use in AI and media tasks.
infoq 1h ago

State of JavaScript 2025: Survey Reveals a Maturing Ecosystem with TypeScript Cementing Dominance

The 2025 State of JavaScript survey reveals a maturing ecosystem with TypeScript's dominance solidified—40% of developers use it exclusively. Vite surges in build tools with a 98% satisfaction rate, while React remains the top framework amidst mixed feedback. AI-assisted development grows notably, and Node.js stays dominant. Overall, developer satisfaction stabilizes at 3.8/5.
infoq 47h ago

Java 26 Delivers Language Innovation, Library Improvements, Performance and Security

Oracle has released version 26 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first non-LTS release since JDK 25, the final feature set includes 10 JEPs, five of which are still progressing through the preview and incubator stages. This release focuses on Java library improvements, language innovation, performance and security.
infoq 25h ago

.NET 11 Preview 2 Brings Performance Gains, Improved Mapping, and Native OpenTelemetry Support

Microsoft has released the second preview of .NET 11, featuring native OpenTelemetry tracing for ASP.NET Core, major Map control improvements and faster bindings in .NET MAUI, Blazor TempData support, a new Web Worker project template, and performance improvements across the runtime, SDK, and libraries.
infoq 24h ago

QCon London 2026: Refreshing Stale Code Intelligence

At QCon London 2026, Jeff Smith discussed the growing mismatch between AI coding models and real-world software development. While AI tools are enabling developers to generate code faster than ever, Smith argued that the models themselves are increasingly “stale” because they lack the repository-specific knowledge required to produce production-ready contributions.
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