Communications of the ACM

But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side!

Each team representative takes their turn declaring that “nothing has changed on our side,” somewhat suggesting that the ...

Slack’s Slackbot can now pull your CRM data, generate charts, and send DocuSigns — all from a chat message.

Salesforce has connected Slackbot to CRM, Tableau, Data 360 and AI agents through MCP, turning Slack into a conversational ...
Tech Times

Claude Tag Deep Dive: Proactive Triggers and Async Execution Are What Make It an Agent, Not a Chatbot

Claude Tag Slack AI agent separates itself from every prior assistant by flipping two switches simultaneously: proactive ...
InfoQ

Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized ...
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...