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Enchant Your AI and APIs with eBPF Magic 🪄
Dan Finneran explains how to use eBPF and AI gateways in Kubernetes to transparently observe, modify, and control unowned AI agent API calls without altering source code.
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Understanding Progressive Collapse: How To Avoid A Cascading Failure
Sam Newman explains how to apply civil engineering’s concept of progressive collapse to digital systems, sharing actionable techniques to mitigate cascading failures in complex cloud architecture.
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The Right 300 Tokens Beat 100k Noisy Ones: The Architecture of Context Engineering
Baruch Sadogursky and Patrick Debois explain context engineering antipatterns in coding agents, demonstrating how skills, right-tool retrieval, and external memory optimize developer workflows.
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Adopting Memory-Safety and Fine-Grained Compartmentalisation with CHERI
David Chisnall explains how CHERI architecture unifies hardware capabilities and pointer metadata to deliver memory safety and fine-grained, efficient software compartmentalization.
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Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time
Aleksandar Mitic and Jo Kelly-Fenton discuss how Spotify uses "Honk," a background AI coding agent, to automate codebase migrations at scale and tackle the ongoing maintenance problem.
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Automatically Retrofitting JIT Compilers
Laurence Tratt explains yk, a meta-tracing JIT compiler technology that automatically speeds up C-based interpreters like Lua and Python with minimal, non-invasive code changes.
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The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity
Holly Cummins explains how tech history rhymes, tracing tradeoffs from the Great Stink to cloud, AI hype cycles, and ZIRP, urging leaders to recycle old engineering disciplines for sustainability.
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Mitigating Geopolitical Risks with Local-First Software and atproto
Martin Kleppmann explains how de facto standards, multi-cloud strategies, the AT Protocol, and local-first software can mitigate geopolitical risks and eliminate vendor lock-in.
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State of Play: AI Coding Assistants
Birgitta Böckeler explains the shift from basic autocomplete to autonomous agents. She shares how context engineering, subagents, and "harness engineering" are redefining senior developer roles.
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