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AAIF's MCP Dev Summit: Gateways, gRPC, and Observability Signal Protocol Hardening
The MCP Dev Summit North America 2026, held on April 2-3 at the New York Marriott Marquis, gathered about 1,200 attendees. Hosted by the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation, discussions focused on the Model Context Protocol's evolution and enterprise adoption, particularly by Amazon and Uber, emphasizing security, interoperability, and scaling for production.
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QCon London 2026: Kleppmann on Mitigating Europe's Cloud Dependency with Local-First Software
Europe is completely dependent on US cloud services, Martin Kleppmann told QCon London. His fix: commoditise everything. He walked through three technologies he's helped build: multi-cloud via de facto standards, Bluesky's AT Protocol for social media, and local-first software for collaboration, all designed to make switching providers trivial and shift power back to users.
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From Minutes to Seconds: Uber Boosts MySQL Cluster Uptime with Consensus Architecture
Uber redesigned its MySQL fleet using a consensus-driven architecture based on MySQL Group Replication, reducing cluster failover time from minutes to seconds. By moving leader election and failure detection into the database layer, Uber improved availability, simplified external orchestration, and strengthened consistency across thousands of production clusters.
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QCon London 2026 Announces Tracks: AI Engineering, Building Teams, Tech of Finance, and More
The QCon London 2026 tracks are live: 15 practitioner-curated deep dives on AI adoption, resilient architectures, distributed systems, performance, modern languages, data, security, and Staff+ leadership, rooted in real production lessons.
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QCon London 2025: the Origin Story of AMQP - Advanced Message Queuing Politics
Join John O'Hara, creator of the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), as he shares the compelling journey of this groundbreaking technology at QCon London. Discover the intricate dynamics of collaboration, challenges faced, and the human element in open standards. O'Hara's insights illuminate the politics behind technology development, proving vision is as vital as innovation.
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Cloudflare Enables Remote Hosting for Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers
Cloudflare revolutionizes AI integration with the launch of remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enhancing accessibility for developers. This advancement allows seamless AI interactions with external services, offering simplified deployment, built-in OAuth for security, and expanded use cases. Embrace innovative workflows and empower your applications on a global scale.
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OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 Released
Recently, the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) 1.0.0 was released. OLTP specification describes telemetry data's encoding, transport, and delivery mechanism between telemetry sources, intermediate nodes such as collectors, and telemetry backends. It is a general-purpose telemetry data delivery protocol designed in the scope of the OpenTelemetry project.
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Microsoft Azure Event Grid MQTT Protocol Support and Pull Message Delivery Are Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of bi-directional communication via MQTT version 5 and MQTT version 3.1.1 protocols for its Azure Event Grid service.
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Traffic Protocol Analyzer Wireshark Gets its Own Foundation
The popular open-source protocol analyzer Wireshark has a new permanent home in the form of the Wireshark Foundation, which should provide the means for its further, long-term evolution, says Sysdig, which took over as the project's main sponsor in 2022.
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TLS 1.2 Becoming the Minimum TLS Protocol Level on AWS
AWS recently announced that TLS 1.2 is going to become the minimum protocol level for API endpoints. The cloud provider will remove backward compatibility and support for versions 1.0 and 1.1 on all APIs and regions by June 2023.
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GitHub to Phase out Support for Git Protocol, DSA Keys and Legacy SSH Algorithms
With a strong focus on having customer data as secure as possible, GitHub has decided to remove support for the unencrypted Git protocol, DSA keys and some legacy SSH algorithms. Also, it is adding requirements for newly added RSA keys and providing support for ECDSA and Ed25519 host keys SSH. These changes might affect only SSH and git:// users, while the https:// users will be unaffected.
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WhatsApp Adopts the Signal Protocol for Secure Multi-Device Communication
WhatsApp is testing its new architecture aimed to enable true multi-device message synchronization while preserving end-to-end cryptographic security. To this aim, WhatsApp is adopting the Signal protocol.
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AWS Transfer Family Introduces Support for EFS
AWS has recently introduced support for Amazon EFS as a data store in the AWS Transfer Family, the managed service that handles SFTP, FTP and FTPS requests. The new option is intended to simplify the migration to the cloud of file transfer workloads.
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Microsoft Has Open Sourced the VS Code Language Server Protocol
Microsoft has open sourced the protocol used by VS Code’s editor to communicate with the various language servers supported.
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Nest Opens Up Weave
Nest has made available to developers the Weave protocol used to connect various IoT devices.