Zak van der Merwe has spent 14 years building control planes at AWS. His blog is a candid look at what happens when your bookkeeping layer has to keep up with the scale of the cloud, and why some of the most interesting problems in distributed systems often hide in the most
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- A excellent conversation with @clare_liguori. She really is in the trenches on developers support for Agents and on Kiro.I sat down with Thomas Betts on the @InfoQ podcast to talk about what it takes to go from demo to production agent: - why more if statements make your agent worse - how to achieve high accuracy and low cost with small models and just-in-time guidance - what observability means
- If only I was looking for another job...We're hiring a Research Engineer at @Arsenal ⚽🔴⚪ to work directly with our Men's First Team! We're building state-of-the-art AI models for the football domain. This role will focus on building the application layer for our research to advance coaching and analysis workflows.
- Absolutely worth a read if you are into modern, large-scale, systems design: Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTPReplying to @MarcJBrookerCheck out the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2607.13276 And my blog post about it here: brooker.co.za/blog/2026/07/1…
- I am not a big fan of doing this client-side, for a whole slew of reasons, but this is impressive engineering by the @Zalando team. I like the "lessons learned" they conclude with.




