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Sixteen Claude Agents Built a C Compiler Without Human Intervention... Almost
In an effort to probe the limits of autonomous software development Anthropic used sixteen Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to build a Rust-based C compiler from scratch. Working in parallel on a shared repository, the agents coordinated their changes and ultimately produced a compiler capable of building the Linux 6.9 kernel across x86, ARM, and RISC-V, as well as many other open-source projects.
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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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Nuxt Studio Released: Open Source CMS for Content Editing in Production
Introducing Nuxt Studio: the ultimate open-source content management solution for Nuxt websites, offering a powerful self-hosted module for complete control over your content. With an intuitive visual editor, real-time previews, and seamless Git integration, elevate your development workflow while bridging the gap for content creators. Unleash your team's potential today!
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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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Shadcn Releases Visual Project Builder
Introducing Shadcn's innovative visual project builder, accessible via `npx shadcn create`. This tool empowers developers to customize project setups visually before coding, ensuring a seamless design-first approach with real-time previews, extensive theming options, and framework support. Experience effortless project creation with complete design control at ui.shadcn.com/create!
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VillageSQL Launches as an Extension-Focused MySQL Fork
A new open-source project, VillageSQL, has been introduced as a tracking fork of MySQL aimed at expanding extensibility and addressing feature gaps increasingly relevant to AI and agent-based workloads.
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OpenAI Scales Single Primary PostgreSQL Instance to Millions of Queries per Second for ChatGPT
OpenAI described how it scaled PostgreSQL to support ChatGPT and its API platform, handling millions of queries per second for hundreds of millions of users. By running a single-primary PostgreSQL deployment on Azure with nearly 50 read replicas, optimizing query patterns, and offloading write-heavy workloads to sharded systems, OpenAI maintained low-latency reads while managing write pressure.
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Creating Impactful Teams through Diversity Using Session 0
Diverse and empowered teams are impactful teams, Natan Žabkar Nordberg mentioned in his talk on creating impactful software teams at QCon London. A session 0 helps set expectations and ensures that everyone is approaching the team in a compatible way.
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WhatsApp Deploys Rust-Based Media Parser to Block Malware on 3 Billion Devices
WhatsApp has rewritten its media handling library in Rust, replacing 160,000 lines of C++ with 90,000 lines of memory-safe code for 3 billion devices. The rollout, part of a system called Kaleidoscope, uses differential fuzzing to ensure bug-for-bug compatibility. The move mirrors a decade-long industry shift toward memory safety, tracing back to Mozilla's first Rust MP4 parser deployment in 2016.
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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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Pandas 3.0 Introduces Default String Dtype and Copy-on-Write Semantics
The pandas team has released pandas 3.0.0, a major update that changes core behaviors around string handling, memory semantics, and datetime resolution, while removing a substantial amount of deprecated functionality. The release introduces several changes to core behaviors in the library’s API.
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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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GitHub Copilot SDK Lets Developers Integrate Copilot CLI's Engine into Apps
Now available in technical preview on GitHub, the GitHub Copilot SDK lets developers embed the same engine that powers GitHub Copilot CLI into their own apps, making it easier to build agentic workflows.
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QCon Previews 20th Anniversary Conferences: Production AI, Resilience, and Staff+ Engineering
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, QCon’s 2026 conferences in London and San Francisco will focus on the engineering realities of agentic AI, resilient architectures, and platform ROI. The programs continue the series' two-decade tradition of practitioner-led content, curated by senior engineers from companies like Zoox, UBS, and LinkedIn.