Automation / DevOps / IaC

Netflix has migrated the majority of its batch processing tasks to Kueue, replacing a long-standing in-house solution. The engineering team mapped existing internal capabilities to Kueue’s native features while leveraging new functionalities that would have been too expensive to build internally. This move reflects a broader strategy to adopt open-source tools that scale more efficiently than custom-built systems.

• Netflix replaced its custom batch scheduler with the open-source Kueue system.
• Migration involved mapping legacy in-house features to Kueue's native capabilities.
• Adoption enabled access to advanced features previously too costly to develop internally.
• This shift highlights the trend of moving from homegrown to cloud-native orchestration tools.

The InfoQ editorial team, including Steef-Jan Wiggers and Matt Saunders, has published their annual report identifying key shifts in Cloud and DevOps. The document synthesizes insights from various industry experts to highlight emerging practices and technologies. This release serves as a strategic overview for engineering leaders planning their infrastructure roadmaps for the coming year.

• InfoQ experts identify major shifts in Cloud and DevOps practices for 2026.
• Report synthesizes insights from senior editors and industry contributors.
• Provides strategic direction for infrastructure and engineering roadmaps.
• Covers emerging technologies and operational model changes.
• Serves as a high-level guide for senior technical decision-makers.

Ryan Dahl, the creator of Node.js, has released Durable Objects as an open standard through the Celld project. This move allows developers to implement the same stateful isolation pattern on their own infrastructure rather than relying exclusively on Cloudflare's platform. The release aims to decouple the durable state model from a specific vendor's ecosystem.

• Durable Objects are now an open standard, not a Cloudflare-exclusive feature.
• Developers can deploy stateful isolation on their own infrastructure via Celld.
• Decouples stateful logic from specific cloud vendor lock-in.
• Enables portable, stateful microservice patterns across different environments.

Organizations paying standard rates for rarely accessed database logs can now migrate these resources to the Infrequent Access log class. This automated, tag-driven approach shifts RDS and Aurora log groups to a lower-cost tier, reducing ingestion expenses by approximately half. The solution enables practitioners to retain access while optimizing spend on archival database telemetry.

• Automated migration using tags reduces log ingestion costs by ~50% for RDS and Aurora.
• Standard log groups can be shifted to Infrequent Access tier without losing data retention.
• Implement tag-driven logic to identify low-access logs for automatic class migration.
• Review retention policies to ensure compliance after moving logs to cheaper storage tiers.