In this podcast, Michael Stiefel spoke to Luca Mezzalira about software architecture as a socio-technical discipline that balances technological design with an organization's social and managerial context. They explored how architectural choices must be adapted to a company's unique culture and team structure rather than relying blindly on universal best practices. By Luca Mezzalira
The article argues that reliable agentic AI architecture depends on a context engine that selects, injects, compresses, and expires information before it reaches the model. It separates context, memory, and knowledge, and recommends tiered memory, curated knowledge, and token budgeting. It also covers common anti-patterns, such as context stuffing and stale data loops, with mitigations. By Adi Polak
AWS has released Amazon ECS Gateway, an account-level ingress resource letting platform teams define networking once and application teams opt services in with a connector. Each service gets a generated hostname and routing is host-based, and neither the announcement nor the documentation covers custom domains. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Shopify has introduced Overexposed. This internal scanner locates Kubernetes Ingresses on GKE and Cloud Run services. It checks for those that are accessible from the internet without authentication By Claudio Masolo
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AWS’s large committed cloud capacity is largely sold out through 2027, with part of 2028 already allocated, while the company continues to reserve headroom for On Demand, EC2 and Bedrock. Practitioners discussing the remarks report difficulty obtaining On Demand capacity for ordinary EC2 instances, and similar constraints at other providers. By Steef-Jan Wiggers
