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Uno Platform 6.4 and Uno Platform Studio 2.0: .NET 10, VS2026 and Agentic AI
The Uno Platform team has simultaneously rolled out two significant updates: version 6.4 of the platform framework and version 2.0 of its premium tooling, Uno Platform Studio. Released on November 11th, 2025, these updates bring official support for .NET 10 and Visual Studio 2026, along with a new era of AI‑assisted, ‘agentic’ development features.
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Grafana Labs Releases Mimir 3.0 with Redesigned Architecture for Enhanced Performances
Grafana Labs has released Grafana Mimir 3.0. This is a significant advancement for the open-source, horizontally scalable time series database. The release features a new design that separates read and write operations. This change greatly boosts performance, reliability, and cost efficiency for organizations handling metrics at scale.
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Netflix Tackles Data Deletion at Scale with Centralized Platform Architecture
Netflix engineers presented their architecture for a centralized data-deletion platform at QCon San Francisco, addressing a critical yet rarely discussed system design challenge. The platform manages deletion across heterogeneous data stores while balancing durability, availability, and correctness, processing 76.8 billion row deletions across 1,300 datasets with zero data loss incidents.
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Spring Framework 7 and Spring Boot 4 Deliver API Versioning, Resilience, and Null-Safe Annotations
Broadcom released Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0, introducing first-class REST API versioning, JSpecify annotations for standardized null safety across the Spring portfolio, built-in resilience features such as retry and concurrency throttling, Jackson 3 for JSON processing, and modular autoconfiguration. The baselines are JDK 17 (while embracing JDK 25), Jakarta EE 11, and Kotlin 2.2.
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After Seven Years, Google Reinvents Android Navigation with Jetpack Navigation 3
Google has released the new Jetpack Navigation 3 library, which redesigns from the ground up notification handling in Android apps. The new library gives full control on the back stack and integrates seamlessly with Jetpack Compose's state management.
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QConSF 2025 - Developing Claude Code at Anthropic at AI Speed
At QCon San Francisco 2025, Adam Wolff showcased Claude Code at Anthropic, where AI powers 90% of production code. With a focus on speed over planning, Claude Code's design evolved through experimentation, addressing challenges like Unicode issues and shell command bottlenecks. Discover successful iterations and lessons learned in real-time software development.
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Google Announces Gemini 3
Google's Gemini 3, unveiled on November 18, 2025, sets a new standard for multimodal AI, integrating seamlessly across platforms like Search and Vertex AI. With capabilities for text, code, and rich media, it empowers both consumer and enterprise applications. Gemini 3 Pro and its advanced Deep Think mode enhance reasoning and task execution, revolutionizing workflows and analytics.
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AWS Lambda Rust Support Reaches General Availability
AWS has elevated Rust support in Lambda from experimental to generally available, empowering developers to create high-performance, memory-safe serverless applications. This milestone enhances developer confidence, backed by AWS support and SLA. While it offers speed comparable to C++, challenges such as lengthy SDK compile times and increased binary sizes remain key considerations.
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Developing and Deploying Software in a Sustainable Way
Sustainable APIs benefit most from minimalism, Jochen Joswig said at OOP Conference . Deployment should consider energy, usage, carbon intensity, hardware acquisition. Remote work, long device lifespans, and green office practices can lower emissions. Efficient CI, selective builds, smaller artefacts, and optimized assets can further reduce energy use.
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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding: Netflix at QCon SF 2025
At QCon San Francisco, Netflix engineers unveiled their advanced Service-Level-Prioritized Load-Shedding strategy, enhancing reliability during traffic spikes. By prioritizing high-value requests and automating management across microservices, they safeguard user experience and system stability. Key insights stress prioritization, automation, and structured load shedding for optimal resilience.
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AI Agents Fail Manipulation Tests in Microsoft's Magentic Marketplace Simulation
Researchers at Microsoft, working in collaboration with Arizona State University, have introduced Magentic Marketplace, an open-source simulation environment designed to study how LLM-based agents behave in multi-agent economic systems. The platform addresses a growing need in AI research as autonomous agents gain capabilities in software development.
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AWS Disruption Exposes Fragility in Critical Cloud Infrastructure
On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage that disrupted global internet services, affecting millions of users and thousands of companies across more than 60 countries. The incident originated in the US-EAST-1 region and was traced to a DNS resolution failure affecting the DynamoDB endpoint, which cascaded into outages across multiple dependent services.
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The Decisions You Don't Know You're Making: QCon Keynote Explores Hidden Choices in Engineering
Engineering teams make their most consequential decisions not in architecture reviews or sprint planning, but through invisible choices embedded in metrics, defaults, and everyday behaviors. In their QCon San Francisco 2025 keynote, Shawna Martell and Dan Fike challenged the industry's focus on documented decision-making while the decisions that truly shape systems and culture go unrecognized.
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Parting the Clouds: the Rise of Disaggregated Systems by Murat Demirbas at QCon SF 2025
Cloud computing is evolving through disaggregation, addressing inefficiencies of traditional architectures by decoupling compute and storage. This shift enhances scalability, fault isolation, and operational simplicity, driven by advancements in networking. As seen in cloud databases such as Amazon Aurora, embracing these principles enables true economic optimization and innovative design.
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Cloudflare Workflows Adds Python Support for Durable AI Pipelines
Innovative Cloudflare Workflows now supports both TypeScript and Python, enabling developers to orchestrate complex applications seamlessly. With durable execution and state persistence, it simplifies the development of robust data pipelines and AI/ML models. Experience enhanced concurrency and intuitive design, making orchestration effortless for Python enthusiasts.