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DeepSeek-OCR, AI Observability, Securing MCP, Post-Quantum KEM, Cloudflare Email, JUnit 6, Visual Studio MCP, Uno Platform 6.3, Docusaurus, Deno 2.5, Coral NPU, Mussel V2, Micro-Frontends, Governance, Plan-Do-Check-Act

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InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends Report - 2025

This InfoQ Trends Report offers readers a comprehensive overview of emerging trends and technologies in the areas of Cloud and DevOps. This report summarizes the InfoQ editorial team’s and external guests' view on the current trends in Cloud and DevOps technologies and what to look out for in the next 12 months. (Trends Report)

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Cloud and DevOps InfoQ Trends Report 2025

In this episode of the podcast, members of the InfoQ editorial staff and friends of InfoQ will discuss current trends in the cloud and DevOps domains as part of our annual trends report creation process. These reports provide InfoQ readers with a high-level overview of key topics to watch and also help the editorial team focus on innovative technologies. (Podcast)

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From Technical Excellence to Leadership: Understanding Yourself First

In this podcast, Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Frankie Berkoben about executive coaching for engineering leaders, applying iterative development to personal growth, and supporting neurodivergent team members. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Anthropic Introduces Skills for Custom Claude Tasks

  2. PyTorch Monarch Simplifies Distributed AI Workflows with a Single-Controller Model

  3. DeepSeek AI Unveils DeepSeek-OCR: Vision-Based Context Compression Redefines Long-Text Processing

  4. Google Introduces LLM-Evalkit to Bring Order and Metrics to Prompt Engineering

  5. Microsoft Adds Agent Mode and Office Agent to Office Applications

Why Observability Matters (More!) with AI Applications

Sally O'Malley explains the unique observability challenges of LLMs and provides a reproducible, open-source stack for monitoring AI workloads. She demonstrates deploying Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Tempo with vLLM and Llama Stack on Kubernetes. Learn to monitor critical cost, performance, and quality signals for business-critical AI applications. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Cloud Outlines Key Strategies for Securing Remote MCP Servers

NPM Ecosystem Suffers Two AI-Enabled Credential Stealing Supply Chain Attacks

The Node Package Manager (npm) ecosystem has suffered from two major supply chain attacks in recent months, affecting hundreds of packages and exposing developers to credential theft and data exfiltration. The attack vector of these incidents shows an AI-enabled evolution of how open-source software dependencies can be compromised. (News)

TOP Cloud NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Google Cloud KMS Launches Post-Quantum KEM Support to Combat "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" Threat

  2. AWS Launches EC2 Capacity Manager for Centralized, Cross-Account Capacity Optimization

  3. AWS Launches EBS Volume Clones for Instant, Crash-Consistent Data Copies

  4. AWS ALBs Now Support Native URL and Host Header Rewriting

Cloudflare Introduces Email Service to Compete with Amazon SES, Resend, and SendGrid

During Cloudflare's recent Birthday Week, the company announced the private preview of its Cloudflare Email Service. This new globally managed service enables developers to send and receive emails directly from Workers using native bindings, without the need for API keys. (News)

Transforming Primary Care: a Case Study in Evolving from Start-Up to Scale-Up

Leander Vanderbijl explains how Kry navigated its scale-up phase to fix a complex, highly dependent "spiderweb" architecture. He shares the journey of applying Domain-Driven Design principles to group functionality and refactor existing services in situ, without stopping development. Key takeaways include moving from product-centric to functionality-centric design and using the FHIR model. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. JUnit 6.0.0 Ships with Java 17 Baseline, Cancellation API, and Kotlin suspend Support

Java News Roundup: OpenJDK, Spring RCs, Jakarta EE, Payara Platform, WildFly, Testcontainers

This week's Java roundup for October 13th, 2025, features news highlighting: two new OpenJDK candidates; Jakarta EE 12 specifications with milestone 1 releases; the October 2025 edition of the Payara Platform; the GA releases of WildFly 38 and Testcontainers 2.0; and the first release candidates of Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Data 2025.1.0. (News)

TOP .NET NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Uno Platform 6.3 Adds .NET 10 Preview Support and VS 2026 Readiness

MCP Support in Visual Studio Reaches General Availability

Microsoft announced in August 2025 that support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is generally available in Visual Studio. MCP enables AI agents within Visual Studio to connect to external tools and services via a consistent protocol. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Meta Releases Docusaurus 3.9 with New AI Search Feature

Deno 2.5 Brings Support for Permission Sets and Test API Hooks

Deno 2.5 has arrived, enhancing the secure JavaScript/TypeScript runtime with new permission sets, refined testing hooks, and performance boosts. Upgrading to V8 14.0 and TypeScript 5.9.2, it unlocks advanced features while evolving the Temporal API. Explore improved WebSocket headers, bundling capabilities, and more for seamless development. (News)

Google Research Open-Sources the Coral NPU Platform to Help Build AI into Wearables and Edge Devices

Coral NPU is an open-source full-stack platform designed to help hardware engineers and AI developers overcome the limitations that prevent integrating AI in wearables and edge devices, including performance, fragmentation, and user trust. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Airbnb’s Mussel V2: Next-Gen Key Value Storage to Unify Streaming and Bulk Ingestion

Three Questions That Help You Build a Better Software Architecture

To architect effectively for an MVP, teams must answer three questions in order: Is the business idea worth pursuing? What performance and scalability are needed? How much maintainability and supportability are required? These guide Minimum Viable Architecture decisions. Empirical testing helps reject costly assumptions early and adapt architecture as the MVP evolves. (Article)

The Ideal Micro-Frontends Platform

Luca Mezzalira explains micro-frontends as a strategy to scale frontend architecture and organization. Learn the four key architectural decisions (Identify, Compose, Route, Communicate) and the necessity of a Platform Team and Developer Experience. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How to Enable Testing a Distributed System on a Single Environment Using Proxy Routing

  2. Why Software Engineering Governance Matters: Reducing Risk without Slowing down

A Plan-Do-Check-Act Framework for AI Code Generation

AI code generation tools promise faster development but often create quality issues, integration problems, and delivery delays. A structured Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle can maintain code quality while leveraging AI capabilities. Through working agreements, structured prompts, and continuous retrospection, it asserts accountability over code while guiding AI to produce tested, maintainable software. (Article)

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