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Amazon Launches Bedrock AgentCore for Enterprise AI Agent Infrastructure
Amazon announced the preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a collection of enterprise-grade services that help developers deploy and operate AI agents at scale across frameworks and foundation models. The platform addresses infrastructure challenges developers face when building production AI agents.
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AWS Introduces Built-in Blue-Green Deployment Capability for ECS
Amazon Web Services has launched a new built-in blue/green deployment feature for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) to reduce deployment risks and eliminate the need for additional tooling. This capability allows development teams to deploy containerised applications safely whilst maintaining the ability to roll back near-instantaneously if issues arise.
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Zendesk Streamlines Infrastructure Provisioning with Foundation Interface Platform
Zendesk has unveiled its new Foundation Interface, a unified platform designed to transform infrastructure provisioning into a fully self-service experience. This platform enables engineers to request infrastructure components, such as databases, object storage, compute resources, and secrets, by simply defining requirements in a declarative YAML file.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25 in RDP2, Spring Framework, Payara Platform, Open Liberty, Eclipse DataGrid
This week's Java roundup for July 14th, 2025, features news highlighting: JDK 25 in rampdown phase 2; the seventh milestone release of Spring Framework 7.0; the July 2025 editions of the Payara Platform, Open Liberty and Oracle Critical Patch Update; and Eclipse DataGrid is open-sourced.
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Grab Switches from SQS and Redis to Temporal for Its Subscription Platform
Grab based the new architecture for GrabUnlimited on Temporal. The company enhanced user experience and reduced production incidents by 80% for its subscription platform, which serves millions of users. The new architecture significantly improved robustness and scalability, addressing a range of issues with the previous solution.
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AI Coding Tools Underperform in Field Study with Experienced Developers
Recent research reveals a surprising 19% increase in task completion time among developers using AI tools like Claude 3.5. Conducted by METR, this study highlights a "perception gap"—while developers felt faster, real-world performance lagged due to frictions with AI integration. These findings stress the need for rigorous evaluation of AI's impact in software development.
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Pulumi Enables Direct Consumption of Terraform Modules
Pulumi now empowers developers to use Terraform modules directly, streamlining the migration process. This preview feature eliminates barriers, enabling seamless integration with existing Terraform code while allowing new projects in Pulumi. With robust support and a focus on gradual transitions, teams can modernize their infrastructure without a complete rewrite.
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Wix Adds Chaos to CI/CD Pipelines with AI and Improves Reliability
Cloud-based web development service Wix has written about a new approach to integrating artificial intelligence into continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems. In a blog post, Wix demonstrates how probabilistic AI can coexist with deterministic development processes, adding chaos without compromising reliability.
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Google Cloud Introduces Non-Disruptive Cloud Storage Bucket Relocation
Google Cloud's innovative Cloud Storage bucket relocation feature enables seamless, non-disruptive data migration across regions while preserving metadata and minimizing application downtime. Maintain governance, enhance lifecycle management, and leverage insights for optimized storage—all without altering access paths. Experience efficient, low-latency solutions tailored for your needs.
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How to Build Secure Software without Sacrificing Productivity
Security can clash with development efficiency. Focusing on minimizing breach impact can be more effective than prevention. Dorota Parad argues for flexibility in compliance and collaborating with security teams to define practical protections. Limiting blast radius and using automation can boost security with minimal productivity loss.
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Inaugural MCP Dev Summit Charts AI Integration's Future
Developers and contributors of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) converged in San Francisco in May 2025 for their first developer summit, charting the future of this rapidly adopted open standard to enable seamless integration between LLM applications and external data sources and tools. Discussions focused on a roadmap for MCP, including critical enterprise features.
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Amazon S3 Adds Sort and Z-Order Compaction to Improve Apache Iceberg Query Performance
AWS has recently announced that Amazon S3 now supports sort and z-order compaction for Apache Iceberg tables. The new features reduce scan times and engine costs, and are available for both S3 Tables and traditional S3 buckets using AWS Glue Data Catalog optimization.
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Google DeepMind Announces Robotics Foundation Model Gemini Robotics On-Device
Google DeepMind introduced Gemini Robotics On-Device, a vision-language-action (VLA) foundation model designed to run locally on robot hardware. The model features low-latency inference and can be fine-tuned for specific tasks with as few as 50 demonstrations.
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Hugging Face Launches Reachy Mini Robots for Human-Robot Interaction
Hugging Face has launched its Reachy Mini robots, now available for order. Designed for AI developers, researchers, and enthusiasts, the robots offer an exciting opportunity to experiment with human-robot interaction and AI applications.
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Microsoft Adds Deep Research Capability in Azure AI Foundry Agent Service
Unlock the future of research with Microsoft’s Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, featuring Deep Research—an innovative tool that empowers knowledge workers in complex fields. This advanced AI capability autonomously analyzes and synthesizes web data, automating rigorous research tasks while ensuring traceability and transparency. Sign up for the public preview today!