Skip to content
HomeInsights

Insights

Ideas for building
better software.

Engineering perspectives on architecture, product development, AI, and the everyday decisions behind useful software.

From the engineering desk

Browse practical articles or follow the latest technology updates.

Subscribe via RSS →

Curated links from external sources — not 360Softy original articles.

ExternalSoftware Architecture
AWS Architecture Blog

How Samsung achieved real-time pricing with AWS Lambda Response Streaming

In this post, we walk through the legacy architecture challenges, the stateless streaming solution, key implementation patterns, and performance results—a pattern you can apply if you’re building high-traffic APIs that aggregate data from multiple backend sources.

Amazon CloudFrontAWS LambdaCustomer Solutions
AWS Architecture BlogRead original
ExternalCloud
Google Cloud Blog

Public and Private Medical Community Targeted by China-Nexus Threat Actor Pursuing Artificial Intelligence, Cyber, Medical, and National Defense Research

Written by: Patrick Whitsell, John McGuiness Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a sophisticated campaign attributed to UNC6508, a People's Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actor, targeting institutions in the North American academic, medical, and military research community. While remaining undetected for over a year, the threat actor compromised externally facing web applications, deployed bespoke malware, pivoted to sensitive internal systems, and abused enterprise ad

Threat Intelligence
Google Cloud BlogRead original
ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

I Reverse-Engineered 50 API Breaches. The Same Five Mistakes Keep Appearing.

Between December 22, 2025 and January 15, 2026, an attacker spent 24 consecutive days inside Navia Benefit Solutions' systems. They quietly and methodically pulled Social Security numbers, dates of birth, health plan enrollment details, and COBRA records belonging to 2,697,540 Americans. These include teachers, state workers, and school administrators. People who signed up for employer benefits through HR software and had no idea which third-party company held their data. Navia didn't catch it f

ExternalFrontend Development
Vercel Blog

Vercel Functions can now run up to 30 minutes

Vercel Functions using the Node.js and Python runtimes now support execution durations up to 30 minutes for Pro and Enterprise teams, more than 2x the previous 800 second limit. Support for additional runtimes is coming soon. Use longer-running Functions for work that needs more time to finish, including: Fluid Compute keeps long-running work cost-efficient. Active CPU billing only applies while your code is executing, and pauses while your Function is waiting on I/O such as AI model calls, data

Vercel BlogRead original

Let’s start with a conversation

Tell us what you’re working on.

An idea, a challenge, or a system that needs to work better. We’ll help you understand the next step.