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Datadog Launches Monocle, a Unified Rust-Powered Real-Time Metrics Engine
Datadog has launched Monocle, a new real-time time series storage engine written in Rust. The system unifies the company’s metrics storage infrastructure, delivering higher ingestion throughput and lower query latency while reducing operational complexity. Monocle replaces several generations of storage backends, addressing concurrency challenges and scaling limits that accumulated over time.
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Replit Introduces Agent 3 for Extended Autonomous Coding and Automation
Replit has introduced Agent 3, its latest autonomous software agent built to extend the use of AI in programming and workflow automation. Unlike earlier coding assistants that provide small pieces of help through autocomplete or single-step code generation, Agent 3 is designed to carry out tasks over an extended period of time.
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InfoQ Expands Architect Certification with Five-Week Online Cohort Program
InfoQ expands its architect certification offerings with a new online format. The InfoQ Certified Architect Program helps senior engineers translate technical skills into strategic influence and earn the ICSAET certification. Two cohorts begin on October 13th, 2025, for European and North American participants.
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Spring News Roundup: Third Milestone Releases of Boot, Security, GraphQL, Integration, Modulith
There was a flurry of activity in the Spring ecosystem during the week of September 15th, 2025, highlighting third milestone releases of Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring for GraphQL, Spring Integration, Spring Modulith, Spring REST Docs, Spring Batch and Spring for Apache Pulsar. There were also resolutions to CVEs in Spring Framework and Spring Security.
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Cloudflare Adds Node.js HTTP Servers to Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare recently implemented the node:http client and server APIs in Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to migrate existing Node.js applications to the serverless computing platform. These HTTP APIs enable popular Node.js frameworks, such as Express.js and Koa.js, to run on Workers.
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Microsoft Introduces Logic Apps as MCP Servers in Public Preview
Microsoft has unveiled a public preview of Azure Logic Apps (Standard) as Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, enabling developers to build and manage AI agents easily. This new capability promotes seamless integration with diverse systems, enhancing scalability and reusability while simplifying the development process for enterprise workflows.
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Google Brings Optimized Resource Shrinking in Latest Android Gradle Plugin
The latest version of the Android Gradle Plugin (AGP) introduces an optimized resource-shrinking approach that unifies code optimization and resource shrinking, achieving up to 50% reduction in app size for apps that share significant resources and code across different form factor, says Google.
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AWS Integrates LocalStack with VS-Code Toolkit to Streamline Serverless Development
AWS has announced the integration of LocalStack with the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code, addressing a long-standing challenge in serverless development where developers needed to juggle multiple tools and complex configurations for local testing of event-driven applications.
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Temporal and OpenAI Launch AI Agent Durability with Public Preview Integration
Temporal has unveiled a public preview integration with the OpenAI Agents SDK, introducing durable execution capabilities to AI agent workflows built using OpenAI's framework.
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Green IT: How to Reduce IT’s Environmental Footprint
Green IT focuses on reducing IT’s environmental footprint, by rethinking how you build, deploy, and power IT systems. At QCon London, Ludi Akue presented how her team did a lifecycle assessment, set a 10% emissions reduction goal, simplified architecture, and optimized frontends, to align with climate goals.
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.NET 10 RC 1: Introduces Persistent State in Blazor, Enhanced Validation, and Production-Ready Tools
Last week, Microsoft announced the release of .NET 10 RC 1, the first of two release candidates ahead of the final version. As stated by the .NET team, this build comes with a go-live license, allowing developers to use it in production environments with official support. It is available alongside Visual Studio 2026 Insiders and is supported in Visual Studio Code through the C# Dev Kit.
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Open Practices for Architecture and AI Adoption
Andrea Magnorsky presented on Byte-Sized Architecture at Cloud Native Summit 2025, as a format for building shared understanding through small, recurrent workshops. Ahilan Ponnusamy and Andreas Spanner discussed the Technology Operating Model for AI adoption. Both approaches drew on the Open Practice Library for human-centred collaboration and driving architectural evolution.
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Improved Application Insights Code Optimizations Identify .NET Performance Bottlenecks Automatically
Microsoft is expanding .NET developers’ toolset with enhancements to Code Optimizations. This feature is part of Azure Monitor offering and now works with the .NET Profiler in Application Insights to automatically detect CPU, memory, and threading issues in production apps and give code‑level recommendations to fix them.
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Hugging Face Brings Open-Source LLMs to GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code
Hugging Face has introduced a new integration that allows developers to connect Inference Providers directly with GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code. The update means that open-source large language models — including Kimi K2, DeepSeek V3.1, GLM 4.5, and others — can now be accessed and tested from inside the VS Code editor, without the need to switch platforms or juggle multiple tools.
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Java 25, the Next LTS Release, Delivers Finalized Features and Focus on Performance and Runtime
Oracle has released version 25 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the first LTS release since JDK 21, the final feature set includes 18 JEPs, seven of which are finalized having evolved through the incubation and preview processes. Nine of these features are focused on performance and runtime.