AWS’s us-east-1 faceplanted for 14 hours after arace conditioninDynamoDBkicked off a DNS meltdown, taking down 140 services. EC2 buckled under acongestive collapse, overwhelmed by a backup in DropletWorkflow Manager queues. Meanwhile, NLB health checks kept firing blanks - tricked by stale network s..

Nanit ditched S3’s PutObject-heavy ingest path and built a customRust-based in-memory landing zone (N3). It cut ~$500K/year in storage ops. N3 grabs short-lived video chunks straight into RAM and only spills to S3 when it has to. Ordering stays tight thanks toSQS FIFO, and fallback kicks in clean wh..

A plain-oldgit repo on an SSH-accessible servercan double as a lean deployment rig. Drop in somegit hooks- like apost-receive- and every push can kick off static site builds or publish code on the spot. No extra tools. Just Git doing Git things. Turns basic Git infra into a no-frills CI/CD pipeline...

AWS has launched Project Rainier, a massive AI compute cluster with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips, in collaboration with Anthropic to advance AI infrastructure and model development.

Amazon apologized for a major AWS outage in the Northern Virginia region, caused by a race condition in the DynamoDB DNS management system, affecting services like DynamoDB, Network Load Balancer, and EC2.

In 2025, GitHub saw a surge in growth with AI advancements, as TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript in popularity, fueled by the release of GitHub Copilot Free and a global developer expansion.

Grafana Tempo 2.9 debuts with MCP server support and TraceQL metrics sampling, enhancing data analysis and query efficiency.