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Uber and OpenAI Retool Rate Limiting Systems
Uber and OpenAI are replacing static rate limits with adaptive, infrastructure-level platforms. Uber’s Global Rate Limiter utilizes probabilistic shedding to manage 80M RPS, while OpenAI’s Access Engine implements a credit waterfall to prevent user interruptions. Both architectures utilize distributed enforcement and soft controls to maintain system stability and service continuity at scale.
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Leapwork Research Shows Why AI in Testing Still Depends on Reliability, Not Just Innovation
Leapwork recently released new research showing that while confidence in AI-driven software testing is growing rapidly, accuracy, stability, and ongoing manual effort remain decisive factors in how far teams are willing to trust automation.
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Does AI Make the Agile Manifesto Obsolete?
Capgemini's Steve Jones argues AI agents building apps in hours have killed the Agile Manifesto, as its human-centric principles don't fit agentic SDLCs. While Forrester reports 95% still find Agile relevant, Kent Beck proposes "augmented coding" and AWS suggests "Intent Design" over sprint planning. The debate: Is Agile dead, or evolving for AI collaboration?
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LocalStack for AWS Drops Community Edition Raising Developer Concerns
LocalStack has recently announced changes to the delivery of its AWS Cloud emulators, dropping the popular open source Community Edition, and creating a single image that requires registration. Projects that currently pull the latest community image will need to update their workflows.
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From Paging to Postmortem: Google Cloud SREs on Using Gemini CLI for Outage Response
A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. This approach improves reliability in critical infrastructure operations and reduces incident response time by integrating intelligent reasoning directly into the terminal-based operational tools.
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Firestore Adds Pipeline Operations with over 100 New Query Features
Google has overhauled Firestore’s query engine, introducing "Pipeline operations" that enable complex server-side aggregations and array unnesting. The update shifts Firestore Enterprise toward an optional indexing model, allowing architects to prioritize write speed and lower costs. While it brings parity with MongoDB-style aggregations, the preview currently lacks real-time and emulator support.
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Teleport Launches Agentic Identity Framework to Secure AI Agents across Enterprise Infrastructure
Teleport recently unveiled the Teleport Agentic Identity Framework, a new AI-centered security model designed to help enterprises safely deploy autonomous and semi-autonomous AI agents across cloud and on-premises environments.
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CloudFront Adds Origin mTLS Authentication for End-to-End Zero Trust
Amazon CloudFront now supports mutual TLS authentication for origin servers, completing end-to-end zero-trust authentication from viewers to backends. The feature replaces IP allowlists and shared secrets with cryptographic verification, proving particularly valuable for multi-cloud deployments, where origins can verify that traffic originated from CloudFront without VPN tunnels.
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Kubernetes Drives AI Expansion as Cultural Shift Becomes Critical
A new CNCF report identifies Kubernetes as the primary engine for AI growth, with 82% production adoption. However, technical maturity has outpaced organisational change. Human factors, such as siloed team structures and a lack of cross-functional collaboration, now serve as the leading barriers to successful deployment, making cultural transformation the decisive factor for AI scaling.
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BellSoft Survey Finds Container Security Practices Are Undermining Developers’ Own Goals
Container security incidents are becoming a routine reality for software teams, and the tools meant to protect them may be making the problem worse.
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Cloudflare Launches Vertical Microfrontend Template for Path-Based Edge Routing
Cloudflare has launched a Worker template for Vertical Microfrontends (VMFE), enabling independent teams to manage their stacks for specific URL paths, improving CI/CD efficiency. This architecture streamlines requests with low latency while offering a seamless SPA experience, promoting team autonomy and efficient dev practices. Ideal for large teams, it comes with operational trade-offs.
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How CNAME Ordering in RFC Specs Caused Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage
In a recent article titled "What came first- the CNAME or the A record?" Cloudflare explains how an unclear RFC specification caused the popular Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 service to break. After identifying the breakage and the ambiguity in older DNS standards regarding record order, Cloudflare proposes a clarified specification.
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Datadog Integrates Google Agent Development Kit into LLM Observability Tools
Datadog recently announced that its LLM Observability platform now provides automatic instrumentation for applications built with Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK), offering deeper visibility into the behavior, performance, cost, and safety of AI-driven agentic systems.
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GitHub Reworks Layered Defenses after Legacy Protections Block Legitimate Traffic
GitHub engineers recently traced user reports of unexpected “Too Many Requests” errors to abuse-mitigation rules that had accidentally remained active long after the incidents that prompted them.
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Etleap Launches Iceberg Pipeline Platform to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of Apache Iceberg
Etleap has recently launched the Iceberg pipeline platform, a new managed data pipeline layer designed to let enterprises adopt Apache Iceberg without building or maintaining a complex custom stack.