Steef-Jan Wiggers
@steefjan.bsky.social
InfoQ Cloud Lead Editor, Microsoft MVP Azure Integration PaaS, Cloud Native, Speaker, Scuba Diver, Runner, and Field Hockey Player.
#Cloudflare recently announced Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), a proposal brought to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that fundamentally redesigns the #WebPKI to enable a performance-neutral transition to Post-Quantum (PQ) cryptography. #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Cloudflare Proposes Merkle Tree Certificates to Solve Post-Quantum TLS Performance Issue
Cloudflare's innovative Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) revolutionize WebPKI, enabling a seamless transition to Post-Quantum (PQ) cryptography without performance penalties. By minimizing TLS handshak...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:13 AM
#Cloudflare recently announced Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs), a proposal brought to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) that fundamentally redesigns the #WebPKI to enable a performance-neutral transition to Post-Quantum (PQ) cryptography. #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
#aws recently launched AWS Capabilities by Region, a new planning tool designed to give architects, platform engineers, and developers deep visibility into service, feature, and resource availability across its global network of regions. #awscapabilitiesbyregion #devops www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
AWS Launches Capabilities by Region Tool
AWS has launched "AWS Capabilities by Region," a powerful tool that streamlines service visibility for architects and developers. No more manual checks—now you can compare AWS services across regions ...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 AM
#aws recently launched AWS Capabilities by Region, a new planning tool designed to give architects, platform engineers, and developers deep visibility into service, feature, and resource availability across its global network of regions. #awscapabilitiesbyregion #devops www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Europe is taking control of its digital destiny: The new EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework has turned geopolitical risk (like the U.S. CLOUD Act) into a mandatory compliance scorecard. #digitalsolvereignty #eudigitalstrategy #cloudcomputing #hyperscalers #eucloudframework sjwiggers.com/2025/11/09/d...
Digital Destiny: Navigating Europe’s Sovereignty Challenge – A Framework for Control
Europe faces a profound strategic vulnerability due to its 80% reliance on foreign cloud providers, a dependency amplified by foreign legal threats like the U.S. CLOUD Act. The introduction of the …
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November 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Europe is taking control of its digital destiny: The new EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework has turned geopolitical risk (like the U.S. CLOUD Act) into a mandatory compliance scorecard. #digitalsolvereignty #eudigitalstrategy #cloudcomputing #hyperscalers #eucloudframework sjwiggers.com/2025/11/09/d...
My latest blog post is around using the Walking Skeleton to prove core architecture works end-to-end, preventing costly, late-stage refactoring disasters. #enterpriseintegration #patterns #azure #azureintegrationservices #ais #walkingskeleton #pipesandfilters
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The Walking Skeleton and Pipes & Filters: Building Resilient Integration Architectures
This post discusses using the Walking Skeleton to prove core architecture works end-to-end, preventing costly, late-stage refactoring disasters. This initial validation should leverage the Pipes an…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
My latest blog post is around using the Walking Skeleton to prove core architecture works end-to-end, preventing costly, late-stage refactoring disasters. #enterpriseintegration #patterns #azure #azureintegrationservices #ais #walkingskeleton #pipesandfilters
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Microsoft recently announced a preview feature for its API Management (APIM) service that allows developers to send messages directly to Azure Service Bus …. #apimanagement #apibroker #azure #infoq #servicebus
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Azure APIM Simplifies Event-Driven Architecture with Native Service Bus Policy
Microsoft's new feature in API Management (APIM) enables seamless messaging to Azure Service Bus, simplifying API connections in event-driven architectures. By using the send-service-bus-message polic...
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November 6, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Microsoft recently announced a preview feature for its API Management (APIM) service that allows developers to send messages directly to Azure Service Bus …. #apimanagement #apibroker #azure #infoq #servicebus
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#Azure Front Door (#ADF) is Microsoft's advanced #cloud #CDN designed to provide fast, reliable, and secure access to customers’ applications' static and dynamic web content globally. This service recently experienced a nearly nine-hour global service #disruption. www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
Azure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility
A recent 9-hour Azure Front Door (AFD) outage was triggered by a faulty control-plane configuration change that bypassed safety checks due to a software defect, leading to a massive blast radius and a...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#Azure Front Door (#ADF) is Microsoft's advanced #cloud #CDN designed to provide fast, reliable, and secure access to customers’ applications' static and dynamic web content globally. This service recently experienced a nearly nine-hour global service #disruption. www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
The European Union recently introduced a new Cloud Sovereignty Framework that provides a standardized method for assessing cloud services, moving from abstract principles to concrete sovereignty metrics. #eu #digitalsovereignty #sovereignty #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
EU's Cloud Sovereignty SEAL Ranking Forces Governance and Resilience Trade-offs
The EU's new Cloud Sovereignty Framework establishes a standardized assessment for cloud services, enhancing digital autonomy and reducing dependence on non-EU giants. It introduces a scorecard system...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
The European Union recently introduced a new Cloud Sovereignty Framework that provides a standardized method for assessing cloud services, moving from abstract principles to concrete sovereignty metrics. #eu #digitalsovereignty #sovereignty #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/11...
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AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of general-purpose M8a instances powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors. #ec2 #amazon #amd #iaas www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches M8a General-Purpose EC2 Instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) Processors
AWS has launched M8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering 30% higher performance than M7a. With enhanced I/O capabilities and up to 75 Gbps networking, they cater to high-perf...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of general-purpose M8a instances powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors. #ec2 #amazon #amd #iaas www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Steef-Jan Wiggers
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. #ec2 #amazon #aws #iaas #intel #xeon6 www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches C8i and C8i-flex EC2 Instances Powered by Custom Intel Xeon 6
AWS has launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. Designed for compute-intensive tasks, these instances offer up to 384 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory, ...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Reposted by Steef-Jan Wiggers
Meta recently open-sourced OpenZL, a new data compression framework for highly structured data that explicitly models schemas to achieve a better compression ratio and faster speeds than general-purpose tools like Zstandard (Zstd). #openzl #meta #opensource #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Meta Open Sources OpenZL: a Universal Compression Framework for Structured Data
Meta’s OpenZL changes the way data is compressed by maximizing efficiency for structured datasets, outperforming traditional methods like Zstandard. With a universal decompressor and custom compressio...
www.infoq.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Meta recently open-sourced OpenZL, a new data compression framework for highly structured data that explicitly models schemas to achieve a better compression ratio and faster speeds than general-purpose tools like Zstandard (Zstd). #openzl #meta #opensource #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Steef-Jan Wiggers
AWS recently announced significant lifecycle changes for over 20 services and features, classifying them as Maintenance, Sunset, or End of Support. #aws #endoflife #amazon #amazonwebservices #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Culls Portfolio: Over 20 Services Shift to Maintenance or Sunset
AWS is streamlining its service portfolio with a significant lifecycle update for over 20 services, categorizing them as Maintenance, Sunset, or End of Support. This consolidation aims to refocus on h...
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October 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
AWS recently announced significant lifecycle changes for over 20 services and features, classifying them as Maintenance, Sunset, or End of Support. #aws #endoflife #amazon #amazonwebservices #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Steef-Jan Wiggers
#Google Cloud recently announced a new capability in its Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), introducing support for post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) in preview. #gcp #kem #cloudkms #infoq #quantumcomputing www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Google Cloud KMS Launches Post-Quantum KEM Support to Combat "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" Threat
Google Cloud's Key Management Service now supports post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs), addressing future threats from quantum computing. This update empowers organizations to prepare aga...
www.infoq.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#Google Cloud recently announced a new capability in its Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), introducing support for post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) in preview. #gcp #kem #cloudkms #infoq #quantumcomputing www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Steef-Jan Wiggers
AWS recently announced the Volume Clones capability for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), allowing users to create instant point-in-time copies of their EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone. #aws #ebs #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches EBS Volume Clones for Instant, Crash-Consistent Data Copies
AWS has unveiled Volume Clones for Amazon EBS, enabling instant, point-in-time copies of storage volumes with a simple API call. This feature provides rapid access with single-digit millisecond latenc...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
AWS recently announced the Volume Clones capability for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), allowing users to create instant point-in-time copies of their EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone. #aws #ebs #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Steef-Jan Wiggers
AWS has recently introduced a new centralized solution with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, designed to consolidate monitoring, analysis, and management of EC2 capacity usage across all customer accounts and AWS Regions from a single interface. #ec2 #aws #infoq #amazon www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches EC2 Capacity Manager for Centralized, Cross-Account Capacity Optimization
Introducing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager: AWS's new centralized solution for streamlined monitoring and management of EC2 capacity across all accounts and regions. This innovative tool consolidates dat...
www.infoq.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
AWS has recently introduced a new centralized solution with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, designed to consolidate monitoring, analysis, and management of EC2 capacity usage across all customer accounts and AWS Regions from a single interface. #ec2 #aws #infoq #amazon www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
InfluxData, the creator of the time-series database, InfluxDB, recently announced the availability of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB. #influxdb #aws #amazon #timestream #influxdbcore #influxdbenterprise #timeseries #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Adds Support for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise
InfluxData has launched InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise on Amazon Timestream, offering a high-speed, open-source time-series database for real-time applications. With enhanced security, scalability, an...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
InfluxData, the creator of the time-series database, InfluxDB, recently announced the availability of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB. #influxdb #aws #amazon #timestream #influxdbcore #influxdbenterprise #timeseries #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of general-purpose M8a instances powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors. #ec2 #amazon #amd #iaas www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches M8a General-Purpose EC2 Instances with 5th Gen AMD EPYC (Turin) Processors
AWS has launched M8a instances, powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors, delivering 30% higher performance than M7a. With enhanced I/O capabilities and up to 75 Gbps networking, they cater to high-perf...
www.infoq.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:33 AM
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of general-purpose M8a instances powered by the 5th Generation AMD EPYC (codename Turin) processors. #ec2 #amazon #amd #iaas www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS recently announced the general availability (GA) of compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. #ec2 #amazon #aws #iaas #intel #xeon6 www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches C8i and C8i-flex EC2 Instances Powered by Custom Intel Xeon 6
AWS has launched compute-optimized C8i and C8i-flex instances featuring custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. Designed for compute-intensive tasks, these instances offer up to 384 vCPUs and 768 GiB memory, ...
www.infoq.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Meta recently open-sourced OpenZL, a new data compression framework for highly structured data that explicitly models schemas to achieve a better compression ratio and faster speeds than general-purpose tools like Zstandard (Zstd). #openzl #meta #opensource #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Meta Open Sources OpenZL: a Universal Compression Framework for Structured Data
Meta’s OpenZL changes the way data is compressed by maximizing efficiency for structured datasets, outperforming traditional methods like Zstandard. With a universal decompressor and custom compressio...
www.infoq.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Meta recently open-sourced OpenZL, a new data compression framework for highly structured data that explicitly models schemas to achieve a better compression ratio and faster speeds than general-purpose tools like Zstandard (Zstd). #openzl #meta #opensource #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS recently announced significant lifecycle changes for over 20 services and features, classifying them as Maintenance, Sunset, or End of Support. #aws #endoflife #amazon #amazonwebservices #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Culls Portfolio: Over 20 Services Shift to Maintenance or Sunset
AWS is streamlining its service portfolio with a significant lifecycle update for over 20 services, categorizing them as Maintenance, Sunset, or End of Support. This consolidation aims to refocus on h...
www.infoq.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
AWS recently announced significant lifecycle changes for over 20 services and features, classifying them as Maintenance, Sunset, or End of Support. #aws #endoflife #amazon #amazonwebservices #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
#Google Cloud recently announced a new capability in its Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), introducing support for post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) in preview. #gcp #kem #cloudkms #infoq #quantumcomputing www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Google Cloud KMS Launches Post-Quantum KEM Support to Combat "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" Threat
Google Cloud's Key Management Service now supports post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs), addressing future threats from quantum computing. This update empowers organizations to prepare aga...
www.infoq.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
#Google Cloud recently announced a new capability in its Key Management Service (Cloud KMS), introducing support for post-quantum Key Encapsulation Mechanisms (KEMs) in preview. #gcp #kem #cloudkms #infoq #quantumcomputing www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS recently announced the Volume Clones capability for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), allowing users to create instant point-in-time copies of their EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone. #aws #ebs #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches EBS Volume Clones for Instant, Crash-Consistent Data Copies
AWS has unveiled Volume Clones for Amazon EBS, enabling instant, point-in-time copies of storage volumes with a simple API call. This feature provides rapid access with single-digit millisecond latenc...
www.infoq.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
AWS recently announced the Volume Clones capability for Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), allowing users to create instant point-in-time copies of their EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone. #aws #ebs #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS has recently introduced a new centralized solution with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, designed to consolidate monitoring, analysis, and management of EC2 capacity usage across all customer accounts and AWS Regions from a single interface. #ec2 #aws #infoq #amazon www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
AWS Launches EC2 Capacity Manager for Centralized, Cross-Account Capacity Optimization
Introducing Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager: AWS's new centralized solution for streamlined monitoring and management of EC2 capacity across all accounts and regions. This innovative tool consolidates dat...
www.infoq.com
October 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
AWS has recently introduced a new centralized solution with Amazon EC2 Capacity Manager, designed to consolidate monitoring, analysis, and management of EC2 capacity usage across all customer accounts and AWS Regions from a single interface. #ec2 #aws #infoq #amazon www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Reposted by Steef-Jan Wiggers
𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & #𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬? So are we!
Dive into our annual #TrendsReport - an overview of the topics we believe architects & technical leaders should prioritize to #StayAhead of the curve.
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💪 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫! #SoftwareTrends
#InfoQ
Dive into our annual #TrendsReport - an overview of the topics we believe architects & technical leaders should prioritize to #StayAhead of the curve.
🔗 bit.ly/4o6lKcv
💪 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫! #SoftwareTrends
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October 22, 2025 at 11:13 AM
𝐂𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & #𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐎𝐩𝐬? So are we!
Dive into our annual #TrendsReport - an overview of the topics we believe architects & technical leaders should prioritize to #StayAhead of the curve.
🔗 bit.ly/4o6lKcv
💪 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫! #SoftwareTrends
#InfoQ
Dive into our annual #TrendsReport - an overview of the topics we believe architects & technical leaders should prioritize to #StayAhead of the curve.
🔗 bit.ly/4o6lKcv
💪 𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫! #SoftwareTrends
#InfoQ
Recently, Cloudflare introduced a new technique called "Shard and Conquer" for reducing cold starts in its serverless platform, Cloudflare Workers. #cloudflare #serverless #coldstarts #cloudflareworks #faas #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
Cloudflare Achieves 99.99% Warm Start Rate for Workers with 'Shard and Conquer' Consistent Hashing
Cloudflare's innovative "Shard and Conquer" technique revolutionizes its serverless platform by slashing cold start rates by 90%. Utilizing a consistent hash ring, it routes traffic efficiently, keepi...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Recently, Cloudflare introduced a new technique called "Shard and Conquer" for reducing cold starts in its serverless platform, Cloudflare Workers. #cloudflare #serverless #coldstarts #cloudflareworks #faas #infoq www.infoq.com/news/2025/10...
#Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new capability that enables #Azure #LogicApps (Standard) to function as MCP servers, providing developers with a flexible way to build and manage agents.
My #InfoQ News Item: www.infoq.com/news/2025/09...
My #InfoQ News Item: www.infoq.com/news/2025/09...
Microsoft Introduces Logic Apps as MCP Servers in Public Preview
Microsoft has unveiled a public preview of Azure Logic Apps (Standard) as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling developers to build and manage AI agents easily. This new capability promotes s...
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September 20, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#Microsoft recently announced the public preview of a new capability that enables #Azure #LogicApps (Standard) to function as MCP servers, providing developers with a flexible way to build and manage agents.
My #InfoQ News Item: www.infoq.com/news/2025/09...
My #InfoQ News Item: www.infoq.com/news/2025/09...