In this edition - MCP governance in .NET, Meta migrates its data ingestion system, building Azure architectures with AI and more.

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Netflix’s Scalable Media Processing Pipeline - How does Netflix tackle the massive challenge of processing terabytes of camera data daily? Discover the scalable media pipeline that transforms raw footage into seamless production-ready assets.
Read more on InfoQ

How Airbnb evolved its data architecture for a multi-product world - When Airbnb decided to move beyond vacation rentals it was clear that its architecture needed to change to support this transition. Read about this journey in the Airbnb engineering blog.


Mobile Observability Architecture  - Are you truly in control of your mobile application's performance? Connecting crashes, logs, and API failures can greatly help in debugging mobile apps, but is often overlooked in mobile system design.
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How Samsung Achieved Rea-time Pricing with AWS Lambda - Achieving real-time pricing in an ever-changing market is quite a difficult fit. Samsung tackled this problem, and decided to use AWS Lambda Response Streaming to solve this problem.
Read more on AWS Architecture Blog


3 Things Leaders Need to Know from Microsoft Build 2026  - The Microsoft Build event, which is always used by Microsoft to announce some very interesting products and services, concluded earlier this month, and as expected - was packed full with amazing announcement. Read about the most important take-aways you need to be aware of.


Build and deploy a remote MCP server to GKE in 30 minutes  - MCP servers are in high demand these days, and many organizations are building them to provide AI agents with access to internal organizational resources. With GKE, this process can be really fast. Read about it in the Google Cloud Blog.

Why AI hasn’t replaced software engineers, and won’t - Are your fears of AI taking over software engineering justified? Discover why the complex nature of the "decide-execute-deliver" sandwich keeps human engineers at the forefront, even in an AI-driven world.
Read more on AI Snake Oil.

What it feels like to work with Mythos  - You probably heard about Mythos, the new, powerful model released by Anthropic, and then got quickly pulled. But a select few were able to work with it, and report their impressions.
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