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How SREs and GenAI Work Together to Decrease eBay's Downtime: an Architect's Insights at KubeCon EU
During his KubeCon EU keynote, Vijay Samuel, Principal MTS Architect at eBay, shared his team’s experience of enhancing incident response capabilities by incorporating ML and LLM building blocks. They realised that GenAIs are not a silver bullet but can help engineers through complex incident investigations through logs, traces, and dashboard explanations.
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Recap of Cloudflare Security Week 2025: From Quantum Cryptography to AI Labyrinth
During the recent Cloudflare Security Week 2025, the cloud provider announced various improvements to its cybersecurity services and multiple reports analyzing trends and challenges in security threats. Additionally, they announced AI Labyrinth, a new version of honeypots against unauthorized crawlers, and Cloudflare for AI, a suite of tools aimed at helping the adoption of secure AI technologies.
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JavaOne 2025: Function and Memory Access in Pure Java
Per-Åke Minborg, Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Java Core Libraries at Oracle, presented “Function and Memory Access in Pure Java” at JavaOne 2025. Minborg demonstrated how the Foreign Functions & Memory API can replace the Java Native Interface with a more direct, pure Java paradigm.
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How Observability Can Improve the UX of LLM Based Systems: Insights of Honeycomb's CEO at KubeCon EU
During her KubeCon Europe keynote, Christine Yen, CEO and co-founder of Honeycomb, provided insights on how observability can help cope with the rapid shifts introduced by the integration of LLMs in software systems, which transformed not only the way we develop software but also the release methodology. She explained how to adapt your development feedback loop based on production observations.
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How Software Developers Can Build Their Personal Brand to Elevate Their Influence
A strong public brand helps software engineers in job transitions and creates opportunities, while an internal brand builds credibility within your company. Pablo Fredrikson shared a story about how he helped a team struggling with a service issue to improve relationships. To build your brand, define your goals, take on visible projects, and be helpful. It benefits both you and the company.
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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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Amazon Unveils Nova Act SDK and Expands Access to Advanced AI Models
Amazon has announced an expansion of its generative AI capabilities with the introduction of nova.amazon.com, a platform designed to give developers easier access to its foundation models. This includes the newly unveiled Amazon Nova Act, an AI model specifically trained to execute actions within web browsers.
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GitLab Introduces GitLab Duo with Amazon Q
The integration of Amazon Q Developer with GitLab, introduced as GitLab Duo with Amazon Q, embeds generative AI capabilities directly into GitLab, enabling developers to receive AI-driven assistance for tasks such as feature development, code upgrades, reviews, and unit testing.
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Bun 1.2 Improves Node Compatibility and Adds Postgres Client
The Bun team recently released Bun v1.2, with major progress regarding compatibility with Node.js, a key component of Bun’s value proposition. Bun 1.2 also now has a built-in S3 object storage API and a built-in Postgres client that comes in addition to the existing built-in SQLite client.
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OpenAI Releases Improved Image Generation in GPT-4o
OpenAI released a new version of GPT-4o with native image generation capability. The model can modify uploaded images or create new ones from prompts and exhibits multi-turn consistency when refining images and improved generation of text in images.
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Azure Container Apps Serverless GPUs Reach General Availability with NVIDIA NIM Support
Azure has launched Serverless GPUs for Azure Container Apps, enabling scalable, on-demand execution of AI workloads using NVIDIA A100 and T4 GPUs. This groundbreaking feature supports NVIDIA NIM microservices, simplifying deployment and management while optimizing costs. Developers can focus on applications, as Azure manages infrastructure, offering a flexible solution for diverse AI scenarios.
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Interop 2025: Anchor Positioning, View Transitions, Storage Access Soon Stable across Browsers
The features of Interop 2025 are now known. The list, whose items are to be made implemented and stable across browsers by the end of the year, includes anchor positioning, the View Transitions API, the Storage Access API, and more for a total of 19 focus areas.
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OpenAI Introduces New Speech Models for Transcription and Voice Generation
OpenAI has introduced new speech-to-text and text-to-speech models in its API, focusing on improving transcription accuracy and offering more control over AI-generated voices. These updates aim to enhance automated speech applications, making them more adaptable to different environments and use cases.
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Mistral AI Launches API for LLM-Based OCR of Multimodal Documents
Now available on Mistral AI's la Plateforme SaaS, Mistral OCR aims to provide an OCR solution for digitizing complex documents that interleave text and images, tables, mathematical expressions, and advanced layouts. This makes it particularly suitable for digitizing scientific research, historical documents and artifacts, user manuals, and more, the company says.
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Azure AI Foundry Supports NVIDIA NIM and AgentIQ for AI Agents
Microsoft and NVIDIA have teamed up to integrate NVIDIA NIM microservices and AgentIQ into Azure AI Foundry, streamlining AI agent application development. This partnership accelerates project lifecycles, optimizing performance and reducing costs. The toolkit enhances AI efficiency through real-time telemetry, enabling effortless deployment and advanced functionalities for developers.