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Airbnb Executes Istio Upgrades at Massive Scale
Airbnb engineering has published a detailed account of how it maintains high availability during Istio upgrades across tens of thousands of pods and thousands of VMs, all without downtime.
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AWS Launches Memory-Optimized EC2 R8i and R8i-flex Instances with Custom Intel Xeon 6 Processors
AWS has launched its eighth-generation Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors. Designed for memory-intensive workloads, these instances offer up to 15% better price performance and enhanced memory throughput, making them ideal for real-time data processing and AI applications.
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An AI-Driven Approach to Creating Effective Learning Experiences at QCon
An experiment was created around a certification program influenced by AI at QCon London, which included special events during the conference, a pre-conference breakfast where participants could learn about upcoming activities, and an AI-driven workshop immediately following the conference. Wes Reisz spoke at InfoQ Dev Summit Boston about a program he led using AI.
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CNCF Incubates OpenYurt for Kubernetes at the Edge
OpenYurt, a project incubated by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), extends Kubernetes to edge computing, enhancing performance in locations like IoT sites and branch offices. With a growing community and support from industry leaders, OpenYurt focuses on efficient cluster management while maintaining Kubernetes compatibility, ensuring lower latency and improved reliability.
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Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.1 Improves Refactoring and Safety, Scores 74.5% SWE-bench Verified
Anthropic has launched Claude Opus 4.1, an update that strengthens coding reliability in multi-file projects and improves reasoning across long interactions. The model also raised its SWE-bench Verified score to 74.5%, up from 72.5%. Building on Opus 4, the new version strengthens Claude’s ability to act as a coding assistant, particularly in multi-file contexts.
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Crossplane Tackles Applications alongside Cloud Infrastructure with v2.0 Release
The Crossplane open-source project has announced the release of version 2.0, an upgrade that moves the project from managing only cloud infrastructure to more comprehensive application and infrastructure orchestration. Some architectural changes have also been made to simplify platform engineering workflows and expand the project's original scope.
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Argo CD v3.1 Introduces OCI Support and Enhanced UI Capabilities
The Argo Project has announced the release of Argo CD v3.1, marking the first major feature update since the foundational v3.0 release. This version introduces OCI registry support, CLI plugins, enhanced Hydrator functionality, and improved user interface capabilities, positioning the GitOps tool for broader enterprise adoption
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Remix Reimagined: V3 Will Drop React for a Fork of Preact
Two years after shipping Remix v2, the Remix team recently announced working on Remix v3, with a new set of principles charting its path. Remix v3 will drop React for a fork of Preact as part of its effort to own most of its stack and feature only minimal, critical dependencies. Remix will also optimize for LLMs, build on Web APIs, eschew build processes, and demand composable abstractions.
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AGENTS.md Emerges as Open Standard for AI Coding Agents
A new convention is emerging in the open-source ecosystem: AGENTS.md, a straightforward and open format designed to assist AI coding agents in software development. Already adopted by more than 20,000 repositories on GitHub, the format is being positioned as a companion to traditional documentation, offering machine-readable context that complements human-facing files like README.md.
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AWS Lambda Response Streaming Increases Payload Limit to 200 MB
AWS has revolutionized Lambda with an increased response streaming payload limit from 20 MB to 200 MB. This enhancement allows developers to stream larger data sets, improving Time to First Byte performance. By simplifying response handling and eliminating complex workarounds, AWS empowers developers to deliver rich content seamlessly, transforming serverless applications.
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Qwen Team Open Sources State-of-the-Art Image Model Qwen-Image
Qwen Team recently open sourced Qwen-Image, an image foundation model. Qwen-Image supports text-to-image (T2I) generation and text-image-to-image (TI2I) editing tasks, and outperforms other models on a variety of benchmarks.
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Google DeepMind Unveils AlphaEarth Foundations Model for Global Mapping
Google DeepMind has introduced AlphaEarth Foundations, an artificial intelligence model designed to integrate massive volumes of Earth observation data into a unified digital representation of the planet. The system, described as functioning like a “virtual satellite”, can process petabytes of multimodal inputs.
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Java News Roundup: JDK 25-RC2, Eclipse JNoSQL, Quarkus, Apache TomEE, Apache Camel
This week's Java roundup for August 18th, 2025, features news highlighting: the second release candidate of JDK 25; a point release of Apache Camel; maintenance releases of Eclipse JNoSQL, Quarkus and Apache TomEE; and the Quarkus team implementing the resolution to CVE-2025-55163.
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Zemlin at Open Source Summit EU: Even in the Age of AI, the Software’s Future is Still Open Source
During the Open Source Summit Europe keynote, Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation, revisited the LLM landscape with an emphasis on the effect it has on the industry, the security, quantity and quality of the developed code. He emphasised that DeepSeek’s revolution was validated by the gpt-oss release, OpenAI’s first open-source model.
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Third Edition of PNG Specification Released, Adds HDR and Official APNG Support
The W3C recently published the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Third Edition), two decades after the second edition was accepted as a web standard. This update introduces High Dynamic Range (HDR) color, standardizes Animated PNGs (APNGs), and adds Exif metadata support, making PNG a valuable alternative to other formats like AVIF and WebP.