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Dead framework theory

LLM dev tools keep steering straight into React. System prompts hardwire it. Generated code defaults to it. The result? A feedback loop. Tools crank out React, models get trained on more React, and newcomers inherit the bias. What’s changing:React isn’t just a framework anymore. It’s sliding into in.. read more  

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From web developer to database developer in 10 years

EnterpriseDB is leveling upPostgres Distributed, the spiritual successor topglogical. Now withreplicated DDLandtunable consistencyacross clusters. It's mostly C and Rust under the hood - tight hooks into Postgres internals, with APIs that nod at abstraction but stay close to the core... read more  

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The Green Tea Garbage Collector

Go 1.25 drops an experimental GC calledGreen Tea. It flips the script on object traversal - scanning memory pages instead of hopping from object to object. The payoff? Up to40% less GC CPU overheadon real workloads. Bonus: it taps intoAVX-512on newer x86 chips forvectorized scanning. Turns out strea.. read more  

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AI's 70% Problem

Google’s Addy Osmani dropped a stat: AI now writesover 30% of the codeat Google. Impressive. But the hard part - the last 30% - still needs a human brain. That’s where the bugs live:security, edge cases, production wiring. No shortcut. And while AI adoption keeps climbing in greenfield work,trust is.. read more  

AI's 70% Problem
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The state of the Rust dependency ecosystem

A deep dive into 200,650 Rust crates shows a brewing maintenance problem:45% are inactive, andover half of new crates never see a second update- a wild jump from just 1.4% in 2015. Zoom in on the top 1,000 crates, and it gets messier.249 dependencies have been abandoned, and158 are stuck on older ma.. read more  

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LinkPro: eBPF rootkit analysis

A new stealth rootkit calledLinkProjust surfaced, taking aim at AWS-hosted Linux boxes. It blends two customeBPF programsfor deep concealment and remote activation via magic packets. The path in?CVE-2024-23897—an RCE on a public Jenkins server. From there, attackers slipped into Amazon EKS clusters,.. read more  

LinkPro: eBPF rootkit analysis
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Manage Secrets of your Kubernetes Platform at Scale with GitOps

Learn how to manage secrets with the External Secrets Operator and plug it into Argo CD to power your Internal Developer Platform without manual management, enabling self-service secrets management and secure connections between workload clusters and the control plane. With a chain of trust between .. read more  

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Kubernetes with Buildkite: faster, simpler, and ready for scale

Buildkite just added a major revamp of its Kubernetes Agent Stack. Highlights:REST-based config,leaner K8s objects, andhardened security defaults. It handlestens of thousands of concurrent jobswithout breaking a sweat. Shared environment vars cut down pod config noise. Error messages come with full .. read more  

Kubernetes with Buildkite: faster, simpler, and ready for scale
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How Airbnb Runs Distributed Databases on Kubernetes at Scale

Airbnb runs distributed databases across multiple Kubernetes clusters - each tied to its own AWS Availability Zone. That setup isolates failures down to individual pods and keeps the whole system highly available. They built a custom Kubernetes operator and leaned on EBS volumes with PVCs to smooth .. read more  

How Airbnb Runs Distributed Databases on Kubernetes at Scale
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Azure Developer CLI: Azure Container Apps Dev-to-Prod Deployment with Layered Infrastructure

Azure Developer CLI v1.20.0 leveled up Container Apps. Build and push are now split from deploy, so you can finally "build once, deploy everywhere" and mean it. It adds layered infrastructure support, lets you share anAzure Container Registryacross environments, and handles resource dependency seque.. read more  

Azure Developer CLI: Azure Container Apps Dev-to-Prod Deployment with Layered Infrastructure
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