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Cloudflare Introduces Data Platform with Zero Egress Fees
Cloudflare has recently announced the open beta of Cloudflare Data Platform, a managed solution for ingesting, storing, and querying analytical data tables using open standards such as Apache Iceberg.
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Inside Duolingo’s FinOps Journey: Turning Cloud Spend into Engineering Insight
Duolingo's FinOps journey integrates financial awareness into engineering, empowering developers to link costs with performance. By leveraging real-time data, teams prioritize innovations for maximum impact. This collaborative culture shift transformed cost efficiency into a hallmark of engineering quality, paving the way for smarter, more sustainable cloud spending.
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Vercel Ship AI 2025 Key Announcements and Technical Updates
Vercel Ship AI 2025 unveiled AI SDK 6 beta, new Marketplace agents and services, workflow support for TypeScript, Vercel Agent for code reviews, Python SDK for FastAPI/Flask, and open-source templates for lead enrichment and Slack-SQL queries.
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Talos Linux: Bringing Immutability and Security to Kubernetes Operations
Sidero Labs has been developing Talos Linux, an immutable operating system purpose-built exclusively for running Kubernetes, alongside Omni, a cluster lifecycle management platform. InfoQ met the Sidero team in Amsterdam during the TalosCon 2025 and had conversations about their approach to simplifying Kubernetes operations through minimalism and security-first design.
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AWS Launches Amazon Quick Suite, an Agentic AI Workspace
AWS has launched Amazon Quick Suite, a new AI-powered workspace designed to connect company data, automate workflows, and perform actions across business applications.
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Vercel Introduces AI Gateway for Multi-Model Integration
Vercel has rolled out the AI Gateway for production workloads. The service provides a single API endpoint for accessing a wide range of large language and generative models, aiming to simplify integration and management for developers.
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Azure Service Groups Enter Public Preview Offering New Abstraction Layer for Resource Management
Microsoft has launched Azure Service Groups in public preview, a new feature designed to simplify resource management and administration. Acting as a flexible, tenant-level container, Service Groups allow users to organize Azure resources from anywhere within their tenant without affecting RBAC or policy inheritance.
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Google Cloud Unveils New Data Security Posture Management Offering in Preview
Google Cloud unveils its new Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) offering, enhancing data governance, privacy, and compliance. This innovative solution provides visibility into sensitive data, helping organizations identify risks and enforce controls. With advanced features integrated into the Security Command Center, it addresses the evolving challenges of cloud data security.
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Pinterest Automates Hadoop Cluster Scaling and Migration with Internal Orchestration System
Recently, Pinterest disclosed its internal orchestration framework, called Hadoop Control Center (HCC), to automate the scaling and migration of its large-scale Hadoop clusters. This move addresses the operational complexity and limitations Pinterest previously faced when managing thousands of nodes across dozens of YARN clusters on AWS.
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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 Lambda Gains Native Avro and Protobuf Support for Kafka Events with Schema Registry Integration
Lambda now natively supports Apache Avro and Protobuf events, streamlining Kafka event processing - an enhancement that eliminates the need for custom deserialization, automates schema validation and filtering, and optimizes costs through efficient event handling. Integration with AWS Glue and Confluent registries simplifies development, allowing cleaner data consumption and enhanced scalability.
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InfoQ Dev Summit Boston 2025: AI, Platforms, and Developer Experience
Software development is shifting fast. Senior engineers need real-world insights on AI, platforms, and developer autonomy. InfoQ Dev Summit Boston (June 9-10) offers 2 days with over 27 sessions of curated, technical talks delivered by engineers actively working at scale. We are focused on helping teams navigate the software evolution, with the clarity and context needed to make better decisions.
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QCon London 2025: Hybrid Cloud-Native Networking in Enterprise - Some Assembly Required
In an engaging talk at QCon London 2025, Louis Ryan, CTO of Solo.io and co-creator of Istio, addressed the complexities of hybrid cloud-native networking. He emphasized intentional assembly of network components, critical evaluation of tools, and treating networking as a primary focus to ensure reliability, observability, and security in today's intricate enterprise environments.
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Uber's Cloud Journey: Embracing ARM in an x86 World
Uber embarked on a strategic migration from on-premise data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Google Cloud Platform in February 2023. A key component of this migration was integrating ARM-based computers into their predominantly x86 fleet to reduce costs, improve price performance, and ensure hardware flexibility amid supply chain uncertainties.
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UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab Introduces Model to Reduce AI Language Model Inference Costs
UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab has released Sky-T1-32B-Flash, an updated reasoning language model that addresses the common issue of AI overthinking. The model, developed through the NovaSky (Next-generation Open Vision and AI) initiative, "slashes inference costs on challenging questions by up to 57%" while maintaining accuracy across mathematics, coding, science, and general knowledge domains.