<img src="https://res.infoq.com/articles/apache-kafka-golang-session-ordered-pipeline/en/headerimage/apache-kafka-golang-session-ordered-pipeline-header-1790945957360.jpg"/><p>The article describes a custom implementation that provides a session-level ordering on top of Apache Kafka partitions, supporting strict message ordering across 1000s of independent channels. The solution required applicati…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/spring-news-roundup-sep21-2026/en/headerimage/spring-news-roundup-image-1790682740499.jpg"/><p>There was a flurry of activity during the week of September 21st, 2026, highlighting: second milestone releases of: Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring AMQP, Spring Integration, Spring Data, Spring Framework, Spring for GraphQL and Spring for Ap…
<img src="https://res.infoq.com/news/2026/09/google-ax-orchestrator/en/headerimage/generatedHeaderImage-1790059907704.jpg"/><p>Google has open-sourced AX, an orchestrator designed for managing autonomous AI agent workloads. AX operates on a runtime, Agent Substrate, treating agents as stateful actors. It provides resource-efficient task suspension and resumption to optimise performance and reduce…