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Development

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Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI

David Chisnall discusses how the CHERI hardware architecture redefines pointer safety to solve isolation and sharing challenges. He explains how CHERI enables spatial and temporal memory safety for C/C++, scales down to microcontrollers with CHERIoT, and replaces costly OS-level RPC mechanisms with lightweight, auditable compartmentalization - all without requiring massive codebase rewrites.

Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI

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Architecture & Design

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Comprehension as an Architectural Characteristic: A System That Is Not Understood Cannot Evolve Safely

As AI commoditizes code output, system comprehension silently decays, creating cognitive debt that threatens safe architectural evolution. This article explores why human understanding must be treated as an essential architectural characteristic, offering actionable strategies, socio-technical metrics, and design checkpoints to preserve intent across modern engineering teams.

Comprehension as an Architectural Characteristic: A System That Is Not Understood Cannot Evolve Safely

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AI Infrastructure

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Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide

Meryem Arik discusses strategies for designing low-cost LLM inference architectures for high-volume, non-real-time workloads. She explains how software architects and engineering leaders can achieve order-of-magnitude cost reductions by making critical trade-offs across hardware, inference runtimes, speculative decoding, and smart queue reordering.

Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide

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Culture & Methods

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InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2026

This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space in 2026.

InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2026

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DevOps

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Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded

Max Korbacher explains why successful internal development platforms cannot be built on tech alone. He discusses the pitfalls of infrastructure-first thinking, the importance of a clear product mindset, and how to measure real value using DevEx and SPACE metrics. Learn how to align your team, manage tech debt, and foster a thriving community to ensure lasting platform adoption.

Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded

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Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI

Comprehension as an Architectural Characteristic: A System That Is Not Understood Cannot Evolve Safely

Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide

InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2026

Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded

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Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI

Beyond Consensus: the Fragmentation of AI Policy across the Linux Ecosystem

GitHub Hardens npm and Actions Defaults, Drawing Debate over Delays versus Signing

Netflix Adopts Cloud-Native Job Queueing System Kueue to Replace an In-House Solution

Spotify Builds External Index to Enable Low Latency Point Queries on Its Data Lake

How Netflix Scaled its Real-Time Service Map

How Artificial Intelligence Disrupts Engineering Progression

InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2026

Culture & Methods Trends 2026: The Human Side of AI Engineering

Vercel Launches v0 API for Headless App Building

Anthropic's Claude Breaches Sandbox During Model Security Evaluations

Producing the World's Cheapest Tokens: A How-to Guide

IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell to Strengthen Trust and Governance for AI-Era Open Source

How Pinterest Secures AWS Infrastructure at Scale with a Centralized Terraform Pipeline

GitHub Code Quality Targets Maintainability as AI-Generated Code Increases

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