How to Fight Clickbait: Meta, LinkedIn & YouTube Case Studies
What does it take for a social media platform to stop rewarding clickbait content?
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Vertical slices, their ownership and external dependencies
A few questions about Vertical Slices come up again and again, and they’re good ones.
Canva Shares S3 Based Architecture for Session Revocation across Hundreds of Millions of Sessions
Canva redesigned session revocation infrastructure to support 100M active sessions while reducing database lookups. The architecture uses Amazon S3 for durable revocation records and distributes compact, in-memory…
Java News Roundup: Shenandoah GC, TeamCity CVE, A2A Java SDK, Camel, Gradle, GlassFish, Groovy
This week's Java roundup for August 3rd, 2026, features news highlighting: JEP 535, Shenandoah GC: Generational Mode by Default, targeted for JDK 28; point releases of A2A Java SDK, Apache Camel and Gradle; a…
How to Build an AI Research Agent
#168: Part 5 - Generative AI Masterclass
Article: 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…
Buildpacks Move the Container Hardening Control Point Away from the Dockerfile
Cloud Native Buildpacks, which graduated within the CNCF in July 2026, move base image choice out of per-service Dockerfiles into a single builder owned by platform engineering, enabling fleet-wide patching. BellSoft's…
Beyond Consensus: the Fragmentation of AI Policy across the Linux Ecosystem
The AI policies across the Linux ecosystem are very heterogeneous, ranging from the GCC’s restrictiveness, the Linux kernel’s pragmatism, to the more open disclosure-based utility model of Kubernetes' landscape. From…