Engineering Leadership

Ajay Prakash discusses how LinkedIn overcomes AI agent limitations in large codebases. He explains Contextual Agent Playbooks and Tools - built on Model Context Protocol (MCP) - which serves procedural memory, code search, and runbooks directly to coding agents. Prakash shares architectural details and operational guardrails that deliver a 20% productivity boost with zero loss in reliability. By Ajay Prakash

InfoQ · 2026-09-19T11:00:00Z

Start forecasting demand. The post Stop asking engineers how many machines they need appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-16T08:00:00Z

AWS Lambda now allows functions running on Lambda Managed Instances to run for up to 90 minutes, six times longer than the previous 15-minute limit, further blurring the line between a Lambda invocation and a traditional server. The limit remains unchanged for traditional synchronous requests. By Renato Losio

InfoQ · 2026-09-19T09:11:00Z

Here’s what we did next. The post We built the platform. Nobody used it appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-15T08:05:00Z

SolidStart, a full-stack meta-framework based on SolidJS, has transitioned to version 2.0, improving compatibility with Vite's Environment API. This release modernizes the framework, enhancing CSS handling and integrating better with tools like Tailwind CSS and deployment services. Following this, SolidStart has been placed in maintenance mode as its capabilities are incorporated into Solid 2.0. By Daniel Curtis

InfoQ · 2026-09-19T07:23:00Z

You don’t need all the answers. The post How to lead a technical discussion appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-14T08:00:00Z

MariaDB Community Server 13.0 has reached General Availability (GA) and is now officially stable. This release introduces a range of new features, deprecations, and performance improvements, including expanded support for procedural SQL, new DML capabilities, and more. By Sergio De Simone

InfoQ · 2026-09-18T19:00:00Z

Build loops, not just agents. The post The engineer’s guide to building a software factory appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-10T15:16:57Z

DoorDash built a multi-agent LLM system to automate stale feature flag cleanup across more than 60,000 flags and 623 repositories. The workflow combines live experimentation data through MCP, engineer approval, isolated Git worktrees, parallel agents, and automated validation. In an evaluation of 50 flags, 45 produced usable pull requests at an average of 13.8 minutes and $4.79 per cleanup. By Leela Kumili

InfoQ · 2026-09-18T13:50:00Z

Considering a career shift? The post Returning to the IC track in the age of AI appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-10T06:34:25Z

WSO2 has announced the general availability of WSO2 Agent Manager, an open-source platform designed to provide centralized governance, identity management, security controls, and operational oversight for AI agents running across different models, frameworks, and deployment environments. By Craig Risi

InfoQ · 2026-09-18T12:00:00Z

Runtime behavior is the only truth. The post We’re on call for code nobody wrote appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-09T06:45:27Z

Phillip Mortimer discusses the shift toward write-only software driven by AI code generation. He explains why traditional pull requests are broken and shares how engineering leaders can manage complexity by decoupling intent from implementation, automating code reviews, and building self-healing architecture to unleash developer creativity across senior engineering and architecture teams. By Phillip Mortimer

InfoQ · 2026-09-18T11:00:00Z

Show engineers spend and watch costs drop. The post Cut AI-coding costs without slowing down appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-08T09:46:45Z

htmx 4 has been released, featuring a transition from XMLHttpRequest to the fetch() API, enhancing streaming capabilities. Key updates include built-in morphing swaps for DOM state preservation and an hx-partial tag for cleaner updates. Attribute inheritance is now explicit, with event names standardized. The library maintains focus on minimal JavaScript while remaining popular among frameworks. By Daniel Curtis

InfoQ · 2026-09-18T09:32:00Z

AI is boosting output, not innovation. The post 28x more AI spend. Zero new innovation appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-08T08:04:12Z

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods spoke to Elisabeth Hendrickson and Joel Tosi about systems thinking as a lens for software delivery, the cultural "levers" leaders and teams can pull to shape organizations, and building thriving, sustainable teams amid AI-driven change. By Elisabeth Hendrickson, Joel Tosi

InfoQ · 2026-09-18T09:05:00Z

Six months later, we had to do it again. The post We halved our continuous integration pipeline appeared first on LeadDev .

LeadDev · 2026-09-07T09:52:18Z

When three thousand employees verify at once, synchronous API calls collapse. This article presents a four-layer architecture for high-volume face verification: client-side filtering that cut cloud costs 30%, decoupled detection and verification enabling 10x scaling, risk-based dynamic thresholds, and zero-trust privacy with consent gates and automated data purging for GDPR and HIPAA. By Praveen Kumar Gopalakrishnan

InfoQ · 2026-09-18T09:00:00Z

OpenAI has released a disclosure framework for model misalignment during its lifecycle. Employees can flag potential issues, prompting technical staff to label incidents. The initial case studies outline unexpected model behaviours, providing insights into deviations from expected parameters. Community reactions show both approval and scepticism regarding transparency and corporate narratives. By Olimpiu Pop

InfoQ · 2026-09-18T05:05:00Z

Agents are becoming the new developer platform, using semantic search with data from tools like Git, Slack, and Jira for context. Things to consider are setting guardrails to block or allow things, and using logs, metrics, and traces to understand agent behavior. By Ben Linders

InfoQ · 2026-09-17T11:11:00Z

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced on September 2026 that Karmada, a multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project, has graduated. This multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project reached CNCF's highest maturity tier. By Claudio Masolo

InfoQ · 2026-09-17T10:00:00Z

Vanessa Huerta Granda explains how marathon incidents expose the gap between work as imagined and work as done. Drawing from real-world scenarios, she shares how complex outages reveal organizational fragility, human limits, and system interdependencies—and why incident response requires structured endurance, humane rotations, and holistic cross-functional coordination. By Vanessa Huerta Granda

InfoQ · 2026-09-17T09:30:00Z

Traditional virtual machines are inadequate for isolating cyber-capable autonomous agents. Tests using GPT-5.6-Cyber indicated multiple escape attempts due to kernel flaws. While Firecracker provided some containment, vulnerabilities remained. The study underscores the need for minimal attack surface virtualisation technologies and rapid, proactive patching strategies to safeguard host systems. By Olimpiu Pop

InfoQ · 2026-09-17T07:07:00Z

TanStack Charts is a new, framework-agnostic visualization library for TypeScript. It allows developers to create visualizations by composing various elements instead of using fixed chart types. Currently in Alpha, it has about 160,000 weekly downloads. The library supports multiple frameworks and is designed for a variety of environments, though it is not yet stable for production use. By Daniel Curtis

InfoQ · 2026-09-17T05:53:00Z

OpenAI has classified GPT-6 Astra at the Critical cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework, a first. In expert-led testing the model found previously unknown vulnerabilities in a browser and an OS kernel and built working exploits. The same system card reports a substantial decline in chain-of-thought monitorability. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

InfoQ · 2026-09-17T04:59:00Z

Microsoft has open-sourced TauGrid, a cloud-native platform designed to manage, schedule, and monitor AI workloads on GPU-enabled Kubernetes clusters. By Sergio De Simone

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T18:00:00Z

Dropbox has evolved Riviera from a file preview service into a universal content processing platform supporting more than 300 file formats and over 100 transformation capabilities. Processing hundreds of thousands of transformations per second, Riviera now supports Search, Replay, Sign, and Dash, while its APIs enable asynchronous content extraction for AI and RAG workflows. By Leela Kumili

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T14:42:00Z

Shopify recently announced it is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship apps in Swift and Kotlin. With the significant jump in the quality of AI models, Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali reassessed Shopify’s commitment to React Native, estimating that the benefit/cost ratio of maintaining native codebases across mobile platforms was now above that of using an abstraction layer. By Bruno Couriol

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T12:45:00Z

Lyft has moved hundreds of production Flink jobs from a 2020 in-house Kubernetes operator to the Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator, unlocking last-state upgrades, in-place autoscaling and resource autotuning across the fleet. By Mark Silvester

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T11:00:00Z

Sarah Deitke discusses how Duolingo drives cultural AI adoption beyond tooling access. She explains their internal AI literacy workshops and observability dashboards, then shares a case study on redesigning code review using an automated PR risk-assessment bot. Deitke demonstrates how pairing targeted developer education with safe AI guardrails speeds up delivery without increasing defect rates. By Sarah Deitke

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T11:00:00Z

In this article, the author introduces Typed Domain Grounding, an approach to reducing LLM hallucinations in domain-specific languages by embedding them in mainstream typed languages. Using kUML benchmarks and an infrastructure-as-code example, he explores how compiler validation and generate-compile-repair loops can make model-generated DSL output more reliable. By Irakli Betchvaia

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T11:00:00Z

Oracle has released version 27 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 25, the final feature set includes nine JEPs, five of which are still progressing through the preview and incubator stages. This release focuses on strengthening security, future language innovation, and projects under the auspices of the Java Verified Portfolio. By Michael Redlich

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T10:00:00Z

Dropbox has outlined how a decade of infrastructure optimization is helping it absorb growing demand from AI without treating new data-center capacity as the only answer. Its work spans forecasting, fleet utilization, storage density, hardware lifecycles, and rack-level power delivery, much of it predating the current AI boom. By Matt Foster

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T07:15:00Z

Pinterest Engineering has enhanced its Manas search platform to manage vast data, improving efficiency in search and discovery functions. By applying Scalar and Product Quantization, memory usage decreased significantly while maintaining high recall rates. The platform utilizes SSDs for optimized performance, and it is transitioning to multi-vector models for refined relevance matching. By Olimpiu Pop

InfoQ · 2026-09-16T06:06:00Z

With its latest September 2026 Patch, which addresses more than 950 vulnerabilities, Microsoft has patched about 2,750 vulnerabilities so far this year. While many attribute this surge to AI-assisted security research, organizations may struggle to keep pace and fully benefit from these advances, particularly when it comes to evaluating, prioritizing, and deploying patches. By Sergio De Simone

InfoQ · 2026-09-15T17:00:00Z

Atlassian has outlined a new approach to automating root cause analysis for large-scale cloud-native incidents, using correlation across metrics, logs, distributed traces, and service topology to generate ranked hypotheses about where failures originate and how they propagate. By Craig Risi

InfoQ · 2026-09-15T12:00:00Z

Pauline Jepp explains how systems thinking, rock climbing, and flocking behaviors apply to engineering leadership. She shares strategies for balancing team autonomy with alignment, supporting invisible work like mentorship, and navigating transitions from hands-on engineer to engineering leader while maintaining organizational trust and psychological safety. By Pauline Jepp

InfoQ · 2026-09-15T09:10:00Z

Grab has implemented LLM-Kit, a framework that standardizes over 500 internal agent services. This system enhances service integration, evaluation, and secret handling, reducing the time to deploy new AI agents from two weeks to one hour. It centralizes infrastructure management, allowing runtime tool discovery and flexible model integration, while maintaining operational control. By Hien Luu

InfoQ · 2026-09-15T09:00:00Z

Last week, Microsoft has released .NET 11 Release Candidate 1, the first release candidate of the cycle, shipping with a go-live support license for production use. The release makes C# 15 and F# 11 the default language versions, extends dotnet test to mobile and desktop targets, finalizes the SignalR authentication refresh APIs, and improves Android build times in .NET MAUI. By Almir Vuk

InfoQ · 2026-09-15T07:11:00Z