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How bitdrift scaled to 121 million concurrent gRPC connections on Amazon CloudFront for live telemetry sporting events
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How bitdrift scaled to 121 million concurrent gRPC connections on Amazon CloudFront for live telemetry sporting events

When 121 million mobile devices establish persistent gRPC connections to your origin infrastructure within seconds of a live broadcast, the routing policy behind your DNS records matters far more than it does at normal traffic levels. The wrong policy can concentrate all your connections onto a single origin endpoint, turning a scaling success into an

AWS Architecture Blog ·
Azure Databricks delivers proven business value
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Azure Databricks delivers proven business value

Microsoft Azure Databricks integrates the Databricks platform with Microsoft’s ecosystem to provide significant business advantages. This collaboration results in a solution that aligns seamlessly with existing Microsoft tools, identities, and governance structures used by organizations. Customers can expect measurable value from this first-party offering, enhancing their data analytics capabilities within the Azure environment.

Microsoft Azure Blog ·
Stripe Benchmark Shows AI Agents Build Integrations but Struggle with Validation
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Stripe Benchmark Shows AI Agents Build Integrations but Struggle with Validation

Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end software engineering capability, focusing on execution, testing, and validation gaps in agentic systems under production-like constraints. By Leela Kumili

InfoQ - Architecture & Design - News ·
The Risk of Exposed Cloud Functions and How to Harden
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The Risk of Exposed Cloud Functions and How to Harden

Mandiant’s security assessments frequently uncover serverless applications with inadequate authentication, exposing them to vulnerabilities like Local and Remote File Inclusion and Command Injection. These can lead to significant risks, including complete cloud environment takeovers. The blog discusses attack scenarios and offers security recommendations, including adopting a Secure Software Development Lifecycle, implementing effective Identity and Access Management, and using Web Application Firewalls like Cloud Armor to protect against common attacks. Furthermore, the article emphasizes the importance of proactive security measures during development to maintain secure serverless environments.

Cloud Blog ·
AWS Ships Claude Apps Gateway as Self-Hosted Control Plane for Claude Code and Claude Desktop
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AWS Ships Claude Apps Gateway as Self-Hosted Control Plane for Claude Code and Claude Desktop

AWS and Anthropic have released the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, routing, and spend caps for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The gateway runs as a single stateless container and routes inference to Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS. By Steef-Jan Wiggers

InfoQ - Architecture & Design - News ·
On-prem DBaaS in 2026: Platforms, standards, and gaps
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On-prem DBaaS in 2026: Platforms, standards, and gaps

For application teams, databases should feel like a solved problem. A team needs PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Redis, or another data service, submits a request, receives credentials, and starts building. In practice, the experience is rarely that simple….

Cloud Native Computing Foundation ·
Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI
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Reeves speaks up about UK sovereign AI

The UK government has ambitions to build out its own AI capabilities, but its plans are stumped by high datacentre power costs

ComputerWeekly.com ·
How Mapfre USA modernized fraud claims with Amazon EMR Serverless
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How Mapfre USA modernized fraud claims with Amazon EMR Serverless

Insurance fraud poses ongoing challenges, raising costs, eroding trust, and diverting resources from customer service. Current detection methods often use rule-based systems, manual reviews, and historical data analysis, which are effective for known fraud patterns but struggle with new or evolving schemes.

AWS Architecture Blog ·