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Software engineering is evolving into agentic engineering. According to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2025, 84% of respondents use or plan to use AI tools in their development, up from 76% the previous year. At this rate, the tooling…
As adoption of Kubernetes autoscalers like Karpenter accelerates, a new set of platform-agnostic observability practices is emerging, shifting focus from traditional infrastructure metrics to deeper insights into provisioning behavior,…
TanStack Start has introduced a import protection, which aims to prevent server and client code from being mixed in full-stack React applications. This Vite plugin automatically checks imports during development and build processes. It…
Event-driven architecture helps banks decouple systems, scale services, and create clear activity trails. But it also introduces complexity, new failure modes, and operational challenges. Chris Tacey-Green explains where it adds value in…
Cloudflare has announced the open beta of its Web and API Vulnerability Scanner. This Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tool is part of the API Shield platform. By Claudio Masolo
In this podcast Michael Stiefel spoke to Lorin Hochstein about how real-world failures provide insight into how software systems actually work. Our first topic was understanding that while automated fault injection tools can introduce…
I have been doing Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migrations for over last decades across enterprises, cloud platforms, and everything in between. I have used commercial tools, cloud-native services, and custom scripts. And when it comes to table DDL…
At QCon London 2026, Matthew Skelton argued that AI success depends on organisational maturity. He highlighted bounded agency, security, and stewardship as key to managing AI agents. By using Innovation and Practices Enabling Teams,…
Version 1.8 of KubeVirt was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The release is aligned with Kubernetes v1.35, and the most significant addition is a Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (HAL) that allows the project to use backends…
Patroni is a widely used solution for managing PostgreSQL high availability. It provides a robust framework for automatic failover, cluster management, and operational simplicity in PostgreSQL environments. Patroni offers many powerful…
Discord open-sourced Osprey, a safety rules engine processing 400 million daily actions and 2.3 million rules per second. Osprey uses a polyglot architecture: a Rust coordinator manages traffic, while stateless Python workers execute logic…
I’ll be honest with you. I’m old school. My IDE is vim. My PostgreSQL client is psql. I’ve been using it for almost 20 years and I still think it’s the best PostgreSQL client out there. I might be biased. When I joined a new team recently,…