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This InfoQ Trends Report offers readers a comprehensive overview of emerging trends and technologies in the areas of AI, ML, and Data Engineering. This report summarizes the InfoQ editorial team’s and external guests' view on the current trends in AI and ML technologies and what to look out for in the next 12 months. (Trends Report)
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Karthik Ramgopal and Daniel Hewlett discuss the evolution of AI at LinkedIn, from simple prompt chains to a sophisticated distributed agent platform. They explain the transition to a supervisor-sub-agent model that enables parallel development and modular quality evaluation. and share a blueprint for building resilient, high-scale agentic systems. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Delivery performance rarely changes in a straight line. Small degradations caused by tooling, environment instability, or team changes can accumulate quietly, while real improvements take time to emerge. This article shows how combining DORA metrics with Process Behavior Charts helps teams zoom out, detect meaningful shifts early, and validate improvement hypotheses. (Article)
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Bruno Borges discusses a paradigm shift in performance management: moving from manual tuning to automated SRE agents. He explains how to leverage the USE and jPDM methodologies alongside LLMs to reduce MTTR from hours to seconds. By utilizing MCP tools for real-time diagnostics and memory dump analysis, he shares how engineering leaders can scale systems while meeting strict objectives. (Presentation with transcript included)
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AWS recently announced the new Graviton5 processor and the preview of the first EC2 instances running on it, the general-purpose M9g instances. According to the cloud provider, the latest chip delivers up to 25% higher performance than Graviton4, introduces the Nitro Isolation Engine, and provides a larger L3 cache, improving latency, memory bandwidth, and network throughput. (News)
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Cloudflare has recently published the sixth edition of its Radar Year in Review. The results reveal 19% yearly growth in global internet traffic, Googlebot dominance, increasing crawl-to-refer ratios, and broad adoption of post-quantum encryption. Over 20% of automated API requests were made by Go-based clients, almost doubling adoption over the previous year. (News)
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This week's Java roundup for December 22nd, 2025, features news highlighting: new interfaces, VaultClient and ReactiveVaultClient, in Spring Vault; point releases for LangChain4j and Seed4J; maintenance releases for Micronaut, Quarkus and Infinispan; and the second release candidate of Gradle 9.3. (News)
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Microsoft has announced the general availability of SharePoint Framework (SPFx) version 1.22, a release centered on modernising the build and tooling experience for SPFx developers. This shift marks a foundational update to how SPFx solutions are built, aimed at addressing technical debt, improving extensibility, and aligning with broader Microsoft toolchain standards. (News)
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Bun 1.3 revolutionizes full-stack JavaScript development with unified database APIs and zero-config frontend setup. Experience enhanced performance with built-in Redis support and optimized bundling. With a focus on community feedback, Bun is poised to outpace Node.js and Deno, delivering faster, efficient, all-in-one capabilities for modern developers. (News)
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Google's Android Runtime (ART) team has achieved a 18% reduction in compile times for Android code without compromising code quality or increasing peak memory usage, delivering significant performance improvements for both just-in-time (JIT) and ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation. (News)
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Software platforms and frameworks act like paved roads: they accelerate MVP/MVA delivery but impose decisions teams may not accept. If the paved roads don't reach your destination, then you may have to take an exit ramp and build your own solution. Experiments are necessary to determine which path meets your specific needs. (Article)
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Naveen Mareddy and Sujana Sooreddy discuss the evolution of Netflix’s media processing observability, moving from monolithic tracing to a high-cardinality analytics platform. They explain how to handle "trace explosion" using stream processing and a "request-first" tree visualization, and share how to transform raw spans into actionable business intelligence. (Presentation with transcript included)
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Holly Cummins gave a keynote at Goto Copenhagen where she urged developers to care about overlooked issues that shape their work. She warned of unintended consequences of design decisions, promoted systems thinking and statistical literacy, stressed mastering concurrency as hardware evolves beyond Moore’s Law, and mentioned the impact of AI on the job market. (News)
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