Architecture

Developers have always picked libraries by taste and familiarity. Now an agent makes those calls at machine speed, and most companies have never written down what it should prefer.

Netlify moved edge functions from lightweight isolates to full microVMs and cut latency from 25-40ms to 5-6ms. The lesson for leaders is where the speed actually came from.

Shopify's return to native Swift and Kotlin looks like an AI story. It's really a lesson in why the efficiency layers in your stack may no longer earn their cost.