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Ryan sits down with James Gosling, creator of Java at Sun Microsystems, to talk about the early networking friction that drove the need for interconnectedness, the stringent reliability requirements of consumer electronics companies that inspired the Java virtual machine, and the evolution of garbage collectors that allow Java to handle large-scale concurrent memory management.
Atlassian’s State of Developer Experience 2026 finds the share of developers saving ten or more hours a week with AI dropped from 68% to 26% year over year, while only 28% report noticeably less friction than before AI. Engineering leaders report spending more time managing and correcting AI output than developers do. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
OpenTofu 1.13 adds convert and assume... functions that let module authors give the planner type and value hints for unknown values, so more expressions resolve during tofu plan. If a value unknown during planning later violates a guarantee, OpenTofu reports an error during apply. By Mark Silvester
AI workloads, including those using agentic AI, will only add to and change the questions Kubernetes teams have to answer. It’s no longer The post AI is changing Kubernetes; is your platform ready for 2027? appeared first on The New Stack.
DigitalOcean has announced the public preview of Learning Services and Agent Data Services, enabling developers to build, evaluate, and continuously improve AI agents within a unified, AI-native, cloud platform. By Sergio De Simone
A preview of three November InfoQ online certification cohorts covering production AI systems, retrieval and agent design, engineering team flow, AI roles, and measurement, facilitated by Adi Polak, Lan Chu, and Olimpiu Pop. By Artenisa Chatziou
This week's Java roundup for October 19th, 2026, features news highlighting: the proposed release schedule for JDK 28; the eMudhra Intermediate CA certificates breach; the October 2026 Critical Patch Update; Azul and BellSoft CPUs; GA releases of WildFly 42 and Apache POI 6.0; the beta release of Open Liberty 26.0.0.11; and maintenance releases of Micronaut and JobRunr. By Michael Redlich
Platform teams that mandated their internal platform were more than twice as likely to say it delivered most or all The post Mandatory vs. optional platforms: Mandates deliver twice as often, and teams are dropping them anyway appeared first on The New Stack.
ReadyOn has detailed a four-layer tenant isolation architecture for its Harmony platform on Amazon EKS. The design combines Kubernetes namespaces, dedicated Karpenter node pools, VPC security groups, and per-tenant Aurora databases, with controls evaluated against a 10-stage multi-tenant threat model focused on cross-tenant access and lateral movement. By Leela Kumili
KubeVirt was founded by Red Hat in 2016 around the idea that Kubernetes could run virtual machines alongside containers. We The post The next 10 years of KubeVirt appeared first on The New Stack.
MiniMax released M3.1 Flash on October 19, 2026, and says it cuts the overall cost of agentic tasks by 70% The post MiniMax M3.1 Flash vs. MiniMax M3: One is cheaper, but not faster or better appeared first on The New Stack.
The AI race is often measured by model quality, speed, and token cost. For business leaders, those measures contribute to The post The AI observability race will be won on interoperability appeared first on The New Stack.
Cloudflare has released Auto Router in public beta through AI Gateway, picking a model per request from a classifier that scores complexity, ambiguity, stakes and context dependence. Cloudflare’s own benchmark puts it ten points below Claude Opus 5.5 on success rate at a third of the cost, and practitioners have questioned how stakes survive a long agent session. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Microsoft announced version 2.0 of the official MCP C# SDK, which implements the 2026-07-28 revision of the Model Context Protocol with stateless HTTP servers by default, standardised routing headers and Multi Round-Trip Requests. Releases 2.1 to 2.3 have since added hybrid session serving, a subscriptions/listen handler and a series of discovery, OAuth and shutdown fixes. By Edin Kapić
PHP released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Amazon recorded an exploitation attempt four days before the patches shipped, and operators spent the day working out whether they ran PHP, where to get the package, and how to tell it had landed. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Kubernetes was built around a fairly simple assumption. It’s that software does what its developers told it to do. AI The post Is Kubernetes ready for AI agents? appeared first on The New Stack.
PingCAP recently confirmed unauthorized access to its internal systems and the theft of source code and customer-related data. The attacker, cyber extortion group FulcrumSec, claimed to have stolen 10.6 TB of data, including TiDB Cloud control-plane records, customer SQL statements, API keys, connection logs, billing information, internal documents, and 413 private source-code repositories. By Renato Losio
Google explained how an 11-hour unattended run of Gemini 4 Argon produced two accepted optimizations for Google Agent Development Kit's codebase, reducing in-memory session-preparation overhead by about 40% in long sessions and cold package import time by 21%. By Sergio De Simone
AWS made Continuum for code vulnerabilities generally available on Thursday. The service finds and validates bugs in your repositories, checks The post AWS says its AI security agent fixes 89% of bugs — but there’s a catch appeared first on The New Stack.
A gap has long existed between the shipping velocity of the best engineering teams and the rest of the bell The post Building an agentic software factory? Start with the sensor. appeared first on The New Stack.
Ask an SRE a deceptively simple question: What is the right size for checkout-api, and how many replicas should it The post Why Kubernetes autoscalers keep fighting each other (and why the solution must be autonomous) appeared first on The New Stack.
For teams running AI workloads on Kubernetes, a fully allocated GPU pool and a growing batch-job queue might make expanding The post Before you expand your GPU pool, measure the outcome appeared first on The New Stack.
Google has made Data Agent Kit generally available, a free set of MCP tools and 37 open-source skills that connect coding agents to more than fifteen Google Data Cloud services. Two kinds of guardrail ship with it, and practitioners need to tell them apart: one is a skill asking the agent to stop, the other an IAM deny policy that refuses the call. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Cloudflare recently documented how it reduced the memory footprint of its internal load-balancing service by more than 100 TB by optimizing the Rust implementation of consistent hashing in pingora-ketama. The changes compacted hash-ring entries and used statistical analysis of hash distribution and collision rates to reduce the number of hashes per backend by about 90%. By Renato Losio
Vercel wants to eliminate long-lived API keys from its ecosystem, and it is giving Marketplace vendors until January 2027 to The post Vercel moved to kill static credentials. Then developers spotted its own deployment token. appeared first on The New Stack.
Welcome to another edition of Road to KubeCon! We’re tracking movements in the Kubernetes and cloud-native ecosystem as we count The post AI jobs are waiting while GPUs sit idle. Kubernetes has a new plan. appeared first on The New Stack.
CSIRO has developed Serverless Beacon, a serverless architecture for querying genomic variants without copying VCF files into a central database. The system combines Amazon S3, Lambda, Athena and DynamoDB, using metadata indexes and HTTP byte range requests to query compressed genomic regions. Tests reported 1.52 second average latency for 10,000 base pair queries. By Leela Kumili
Linux is already part of the AI developer’s desktop toolkit. Nvidia’s DGX Spark, which became available to order on October The post A few engineers asked IT for Linux. Then it spread to 200 machines. appeared first on The New Stack.
Government websites and public services across Europe went offline this week as organizations responded to two newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities. The post PHP2Shell was only the beginning: AI is accelerating the patch race appeared first on The New Stack.
AWS recently introduced Lambda Web Functions, allowing developers to run Node.js web applications using frameworks such as Express and Hono directly on Lambda, with support for concurrent requests and response streaming. By Renato Losio