Treating application modernisation as mere housekeeping is a fast track to obsolescence. Infrastructure is now a living platform, and the gap between companies that realise this and those that do not is widening. For engineering leads, success rarely hinges on shipping more code. The 2026 App Innovation Report from Cloudflare highlights that organisational discipline, deep …
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As companies push more software decisions through machine learning systems, a quiet problem keeps showing up—especially in large recommendation platforms like Spotify’s recommendations. The same infrastructure is often asked to do two very different jobs. One job is personalisation. That system needs to respond in real time, serve millions of users at once, and stay …
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Google has cut Android Open Source Project (AOSP) code dumps to two a year to align release cadences with its trunk stable development model. However, this has sparked debate over the platform’s future. For software engineers and platform maintainers working within the Android ecosystem, the release rhythm of the upstream codebase is a fundamental dependency. …
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These days, whether you’re a student, a solo creator, an engineer or running a startup, you’ve probably noticed things are different. Open resources are changing the game. What used to cost a ton in licence fees or trapped you inside a single company’s rules, you can now do all that with free tools that actually …
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