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LinkedIn Re-Architects Service Discovery: Replacing Zookeeper with Kafka and xDS at Scale

LinkedIn's engineering team successfully upgraded its legacy ZooKeeper service discovery platform to enhance scalability and performance. By leveraging Apache Kafka and the xDS protocol, the new architecture enables eventual consistency, supports multiple languages, and allows migration without downtime. Post-upgrade, latency vastly improved, facilitating hundreds of thousands of app instances.

By Patrick Farry

Presentation: Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems

Sarah Usher discusses the architectural "breaking point" where warehouses like BigQuery struggle with latency and cost. She explains the necessity of a conceptual data lifecycle (Raw, Curated, Use Case) to regain control over lineage and innovation. She shares practical strategies to design a single source of truth that empowers both ML teams and analytics without bottlenecking scale.

By Sarah Usher

Java Explores Carrier Classes to Extend Data-Oriented Programming Beyond Records

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By A N M Bazlur Rahman

Vercel Introduces Skills.sh, an Open Ecosystem for Agent Commands

Vercel has released Skills.sh, an open-source tool designed to provide AI agents with a standardized way to execute reusable actions, or skills, through the command line.

By Daniel Dominguez

Agent Trace: Cursor Proposes an Open Specification for AI Code Attribution

Cursor has published Agent Trace, a draft open specification aimed at standardizing how AI-generated code is attributed in software projects. Released as a Request for Comments (RFC), the proposal defines a vendor-neutral format for recording AI contributions alongside human authorship in version-controlled codebases.

By Robert Krzaczyński

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