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- Platform engineering needs to become more human…and less
- How an Agent Built a 3D Paris Gallery by Chaining Two Hugging Face Spaces
- Weighted State Souping for Efficient Long-Context Retrieval
- Building a data plane from scratch: Stripe’s own high-performance distributed proxy
- Intelligent Delivery: Making Every Unit of Compute Serve Better Ads
- DHH's New Way of Writing Code
- Enabling evolutionary database development: Part 3
- GitHub Makes Agentic Workflows Generally Available with Isolation and Budget Controls
- Shopify’s Generative Discovery Model
- Designing for Agents with Zeno Rocha
- Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0
- Reconciling the Past: Correcting Records for Unfixed Kubernetes CVEs
- AWS Architecture Blog: Thought Leadership and Disaster Recovery Series
- Transforming How We Run Kafka at Honeycomb
- The Apple Upgrade Situation
- Unifying Mobile and Desktop Design Systems at Discord
- Helping people with health and work: what we learned
- More than a helpdesk: user support's role in helping GOV.UK Notify send 12 billion messages
- How GDS and DWP worked together to improve GOV.UK One Login
- The Livelymerge Experiment
- Things Take the Time They Take: A 42nd Thought at 42
- Reverse Engineering an ASIC: A Technical Challenge
- Typography and Product Design: Lessons from Blade Runner
- R.I.P. Your Backlog
- From Cloudwashing to O11ywashing
- Advice For Individual Contributors
- Our roadmap for modern digital government
- Making the government’s first digital wallet a reality
- A Peek At Patchwork Progress
- Formal Methods and the Future of Programming
- Wide Events vs. Three Pillars: AI Observability Costs
- AI Norms & Values: Principles for Human-Centric Engineering
- Test Complex Interactions Earlier with AI Prototyping
- AI in the Editorial Process: Maintaining Human Accountability
- AI Engineering Updates: Local LLM Optimization and Long-Context Acceleration
- The Two Jobs of a CPO
- bijou64: A Canonical and High-Performance Varint Encoding
- Using OxCaml to implement type-safe reference counting between OCaml and Python
- The 3 Roles of Context for AI Agents
- Introducing tsrs: A Rust Port of the TypeScript Compiler
- Own a Graph: A Strategy for Senior Impact
- The Compensation Commandments
- Designing MCP Tools for Agents: Lessons from Building Datadog's MCP Server
- Defending Open Source Against AI-Driven Attacks
- New EU Guidelines for AI Labelling
- Kubernetes v1.37: Storage Version Migration Enabled by Default
- Kubernetes v1.37: etcd RangeStream Cuts Memory Use on Large List Reads
- Kubernetes v1.37: Native Scale-to-Zero Support for HPA
- Relational Query Superpowers
- Designing AI Products and Features: Study Guide