Steef-Jan Wiggers
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InfoQ Cloud Lead Editor, Microsoft MVP Azure Integration PaaS, Cloud Native, Speaker, Scuba Diver, Runner, and Field Hockey Player.
AWS recently announced AWS Transform Custom, a capability within AWS Transform that allows developers modernize and refactor custom code. #refactor #refactorcode #modernize #aws #infoq #technicaldebt www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
AWS Transform Custom Tackles Technical Debt
AWS Transform Custom revolutionizes code modernization with AI-driven, out-of-the-box transformations for Java, Node.js, and Python. This enterprise-focused tool accelerates application upgrades by up...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
AWS recently announced AWS Transform Custom, a capability within AWS Transform that allows developers modernize and refactor custom code. #refactor #refactorcode #modernize #aws #infoq #technicaldebt www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
In 2019, #AWS introduced Savings Plans for EC2 and Fargate, which we reported at #InfoQ. Now with Database Savings Plans, one can reduce database costs - something the community and customers had wanted for a while. #databasesavingsplans #cloudcomputing #costsavings www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
AWS Launches Database Savings Plans, Offering Up to 35% Cost Reduction and Engine Flexibility
AWS has launched Database Savings Plans, allowing customers to cut database costs by up to 35% with a commitment to consistent usage. This feature enhances flexibility during migrations and expansions...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In 2019, #AWS introduced Savings Plans for EC2 and Fargate, which we reported at #InfoQ. Now with Database Savings Plans, one can reduce database costs - something the community and customers had wanted for a while. #databasesavingsplans #cloudcomputing #costsavings www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
Earlier, Microsoft adopted the Durable Task Framework in Azure Functions. Now, AWS recently announced the launch of Durable Functions for Lambda. #aws #durable #faas #lambda #durableexecution #infoq #amazon #stateful www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
AWS Introduces Durable Functions: Stateful Logic Directly in Lambda Code
AWS has unveiled Durable Functions for Lambda, revolutionizing multi-step workflows. This feature allows developers to write code that manages state and retry logic without incurring costs during wait...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Earlier, Microsoft adopted the Durable Task Framework in Azure Functions. Now, AWS recently announced the launch of Durable Functions for Lambda. #aws #durable #faas #lambda #durableexecution #infoq #amazon #stateful www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
AWS Lambda Managed Instances is a new capability that allows customers to run AWS Lambda functions on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. #aws #lambda #functions #faas #amazon #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
AWS Lambda Managed Instances: Serverless Flexibility Meets EC2 Cost Models
Unlock the power of AWS Lambda Managed Instances, seamlessly combining serverless functions with Amazon EC2 for optimal performance and cost efficiency. Designed for steady-state workloads, this solut...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AWS Lambda Managed Instances is a new capability that allows customers to run AWS Lambda functions on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. #aws #lambda #functions #faas #amazon #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of API Management Premium version 2 #apimanagement #azure #microsoft #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
Azure API Management Premium v2 GA: Simplified Private Networking and VNet Injection
Microsoft has launched API Management Premium v2, redefining security and ease-of-use in cloud API gateways. This new architecture enhances private networking by eliminating management traffic from cu...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of API Management Premium version 2 #apimanagement #azure #microsoft #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/12...
Microsoft recently announced a limited preview of #Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, a new capability that brings cloud-native desktop virtualization to existing on-premises infrastructure. #avd #hybridcomputing www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Azure Virtual Desktop Goes Fully Hybrid with Arc-Enabled Servers
Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) now supports hybrid environments, enabling on-premises Arc-Enabled Servers to act as session hosts. This integration enables customers to run virtual desktops i...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Microsoft recently announced a limited preview of #Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, a new capability that brings cloud-native desktop virtualization to existing on-premises infrastructure. #avd #hybridcomputing www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
One of the interesting sessions at #QCon SF 2025 was presented by Engineering Manager Nishant Lakshmikanth from #LinkedIn - providing an in-depth look at how LinkedIn systematically dismantled its legacy batch-centric recommendation infrastructure. www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
LinkedIn’s Migration Journey to Serve Billions of Users by Nishant Lakshmikanth at QCon SF
Engineering Manager Nishant Lakshmikanth showcased LinkedIn's transformation at QCon SF 2025, detailing a shift from legacy batch-based systems to a real-time architecture. By decoupling recommendatio...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
One of the interesting sessions at #QCon SF 2025 was presented by Engineering Manager Nishant Lakshmikanth from #LinkedIn - providing an in-depth look at how LinkedIn systematically dismantled its legacy batch-centric recommendation infrastructure. www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
At QCon SF 2025, Spencer Judge, SDK Team Lead at Temporal, presented a case for using a shared Rust core to build and maintain robust multi-language SDKs efficiently. #qcon #qconsf #rust #temporal #infoq
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Rust at the Core: Accelerating Polyglot SDK Development by Spencer Judge at QCon SF 2025
Innovative SDK Team Lead Spencer Judge at Temporal unveiled a game-changing strategy at QCon SF 2025: leveraging a shared Rust core to streamline multi-language SDKs. By reducing redundancy and improv...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Cloudflare recently experienced a global outage caused by a database permission update, triggering widespread 5xx errors across its CDN and security services. #cloudflare #cloudoutage #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Cloudflare Global Outage Traced to Internal Database Change
Cloudflare’s recent global outage, linked to a database update, caused widespread disruption and highlighted the risks of single-vendor reliance. While service was restored, the incident sparked discu...
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November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Cloudflare recently experienced a global outage caused by a database permission update, triggering widespread 5xx errors across its CDN and security services. #cloudflare #cloudoutage #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Recently, #AWS promoted #Rust support for its Function as a Service (FaaS) offering, #Lambda, from Experimental to Generally Available (GA), enabling developers to build serverless applications with Rust, backed by AWS Support and the Lambda availability SLA. #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
AWS Lambda Rust Support Reaches General Availability
AWS has elevated Rust support in Lambda from experimental to generally available, empowering developers to create high-performance, memory-safe serverless applications. This milestone enhances develop...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Recently, #AWS promoted #Rust support for its Function as a Service (FaaS) offering, #Lambda, from Experimental to Generally Available (GA), enabling developers to build serverless applications with Rust, backed by AWS Support and the Lambda availability SLA. #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
At the recent #QConSF, Netflix Staff Software Engineers Mendiratta and Fedorka shared insights into the company´s reliability strategy, detailing the evolution of its load-shedding techniques - It was a very interesting talk! #infoq #netflix #loadshedding #qcon www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding: Netflix at QCon SF 2025
At QCon San Francisco, Netflix engineers unveiled their advanced Service-Level-Prioritized Load-Shedding strategy, enhancing reliability during traffic spikes. By prioritizing high-value requests and ...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
At the recent #QConSF, Netflix Staff Software Engineers Mendiratta and Fedorka shared insights into the company´s reliability strategy, detailing the evolution of its load-shedding techniques - It was a very interesting talk! #infoq #netflix #loadshedding #qcon www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
#Workflows are #Cloudflare’s offering, providing a #durable execution engine to build multi-step application orchestration. It initially supported only TypeScript; it now also supports #Python in beta ... www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Cloudflare Workflows Adds Python Support for Durable AI Pipelines
Innovative Cloudflare Workflows now supports both TypeScript and Python, enabling developers to orchestrate complex applications seamlessly. With durable execution and state persistence, it simplifies...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
#Workflows are #Cloudflare’s offering, providing a #durable execution engine to build multi-step application orchestration. It initially supported only TypeScript; it now also supports #Python in beta ... www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Cloud computing is undergoing an architectural shift driven primarily by Cloud economics, according to Murat Demirbas's recent session on disaggregated systems. #infoq #qconsf www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems by Murat Demirbas at QCon SF 2025
Cloud computing is evolving through disaggregation, addressing inefficiencies of traditional architectures by decoupling compute and storage. This shift enhances scalability, fault isolation, and oper...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Cloud computing is undergoing an architectural shift driven primarily by Cloud economics, according to Murat Demirbas's recent session on disaggregated systems. #infoq #qconsf www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
#Microsoft recently announced a new wave of capabilities for its #Sovereign Cloud offering across its public and private cloud environments to meet stringent global, particularly European, regulatory demands for data residency, control, and resilience. #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Microsoft Addresses Data Residency with Private Cloud Expansion
Microsoft has strengthened its Sovereign Cloud offering to meet stringent global data-residency and control regulations, particularly in Europe. New capabilities include a commitment to EU Data Bounda...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
#Microsoft recently announced a new wave of capabilities for its #Sovereign Cloud offering across its public and private cloud environments to meet stringent global, particularly European, regulatory demands for data residency, control, and resilience. #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
At QCon San Francisco 2025, Dr. Nicole Forsgren delivered a keynote focusing on the paradoxical impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on software development workflows. #qcon #qconsf2025 #infoq #ai #artificialintelligence #friction www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
First Keynote at QCon San Francisco 2025: Reducing Friction by Nicole Forsgren
At QCon SF 2025, Dr. Nicole Forsgren highlighted how AI accelerates code generation but reveals deployment bottlenecks, urging a strategic pivot to optimizing Developer Experience (DevEx). With 31% of...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:20 PM
At QCon San Francisco 2025, Dr. Nicole Forsgren delivered a keynote focusing on the paradoxical impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on software development workflows. #qcon #qconsf2025 #infoq #ai #artificialintelligence #friction www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
November 17, 2025 at 7:57 PM
#Cloudflare recently announced Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), a proposal brought to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that fundamentally redesigns the #WebPKI to enable a performance-neutral transition to Post-Quantum (PQ) cryptography. #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Cloudflare Proposes Merkle Tree Certificates to Solve Post-Quantum TLS Performance Issue
Cloudflare's innovative Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) revolutionize WebPKI, enabling a seamless transition to Post-Quantum (PQ) cryptography without performance penalties. By minimizing TLS handshak...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#Cloudflare recently announced Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), a proposal brought to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that fundamentally redesigns the #WebPKI to enable a performance-neutral transition to Post-Quantum (PQ) cryptography. #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
#aws recently launched AWS Capabilities by Region, a new planning tool designed to give architects, platform engineers, and developers deep visibility into service, feature, and resource availability across its global network of regions. #awscapabilitiesbyregion #devops www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
AWS Launches Capabilities by Region Tool
AWS has launched "AWS Capabilities by Region," a powerful tool that streamlines service visibility for architects and developers. No more manual checks—now you can compare AWS services across regions ...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#aws recently launched AWS Capabilities by Region, a new planning tool designed to give architects, platform engineers, and developers deep visibility into service, feature, and resource availability across its global network of regions. #awscapabilitiesbyregion #devops www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Europe is taking control of its digital destiny: The new EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework has turned geopolitical risk (like the U.S. CLOUD Act) into a mandatory compliance scorecard. #digitalsolvereignty #eudigitalstrategy #cloudcomputing #hyperscalers #eucloudframework sjwiggers.com/2025/11/09/d...
Digital Destiny: Navigating Europe’s Sovereignty Challenge – A Framework for Control
Europe faces a profound strategic vulnerability due to its 80% reliance on foreign cloud providers, a dependency amplified by foreign legal threats like the U.S. CLOUD Act. The introduction of the …
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November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Europe is taking control of its digital destiny: The new EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework has turned geopolitical risk (like the U.S. CLOUD Act) into a mandatory compliance scorecard. #digitalsolvereignty #eudigitalstrategy #cloudcomputing #hyperscalers #eucloudframework sjwiggers.com/2025/11/09/d...
My latest blog post is around using the Walking Skeleton to prove core architecture works end-to-end, preventing costly, late-stage refactoring disasters. #enterpriseintegration #patterns #azure #azureintegrationservices #ais #walkingskeleton #pipesandfilters
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The Walking Skeleton and Pipes & Filters: Building Resilient Integration Architectures
This post discusses using the Walking Skeleton to prove core architecture works end-to-end, preventing costly, late-stage refactoring disasters. This initial validation should leverage the Pipes an…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My latest blog post is around using the Walking Skeleton to prove core architecture works end-to-end, preventing costly, late-stage refactoring disasters. #enterpriseintegration #patterns #azure #azureintegrationservices #ais #walkingskeleton #pipesandfilters
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Microsoft recently announced a preview feature for its API Management (APIM) service that allows developers to send messages directly to Azure Service Bus …. #apimanagement #apibroker #azure #infoq #servicebus
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Azure APIM Simplifies Event-Driven Architecture with Native Service Bus Policy
Microsoft's new feature in API Management (APIM) enables seamless messaging to Azure Service Bus, simplifying API connections in event-driven architectures. By using the send-service-bus-message polic...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Microsoft recently announced a preview feature for its API Management (APIM) service that allows developers to send messages directly to Azure Service Bus …. #apimanagement #apibroker #azure #infoq #servicebus
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#Azure Front Door (#ADF) is Microsoft's advanced #cloud #CDN designed to provide fast, reliable, and secure access to customers’ applications' static and dynamic web content globally. This service recently experienced a nearly nine-hour global service #disruption. www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Azure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility
A recent 9-hour Azure Front Door (AFD) outage was triggered by a faulty control-plane configuration change that bypassed safety checks due to a software defect, leading to a massive blast radius and a...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#Azure Front Door (#ADF) is Microsoft's advanced #cloud #CDN designed to provide fast, reliable, and secure access to customers’ applications' static and dynamic web content globally. This service recently experienced a nearly nine-hour global service #disruption. www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
The European Union recently introduced a new Cloud Sovereignty Framework that provides a standardized method for assessing cloud services, moving from abstract principles to concrete sovereignty metrics. #eu #digitalsovereignty #sovereignty #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
EU's Cloud Sovereignty SEAL Ranking Forces Governance and Resilience Trade-offs
The EU's new Cloud Sovereignty Framework establishes a standardized assessment for cloud services, enhancing digital autonomy and reducing dependence on non-EU giants. It introduces a scorecard system...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The European Union recently introduced a new Cloud Sovereignty Framework that provides a standardized method for assessing cloud services, moving from abstract principles to concrete sovereignty metrics. #eu #digitalsovereignty #sovereignty #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
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AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of general-purpose M8a instances powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors. #ec2 #amazon #amd #iaas www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches M8a General-Purpose EC2 Instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) Processors
AWS has launched M8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering 30% higher performance than M7a. With enhanced I/O capabilities and up to 75 Gbps networking, they cater to high-perf...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of general-purpose M8a instances powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors. #ec2 #amazon #amd #iaas www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
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AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. #ec2 #amazon #aws #iaas #intel #xeon6 www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches C8i and C8i-flex EC2 Instances Powered by Custom Intel Xeon 6
AWS has launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. Designed for compute-intensive tasks, these instances offer up to 384 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory, ...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM