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Dropbox recently explained how it improved storage efficiency in Magic Pocket, the company's internal immutable blob store for storing user files at scale, by redesigning compaction strategies to reclaim space from severely underfilled storage volumes. The system now periodically reorganizes valid d
Jimmy Morzaria discusses the evolution of Stripe’s database tier to support 5 million QPS with 5.5 nines of reliability. He explains the architecture of DocDB and shares how Stripe leverages a custom zero-downtime data movement platform to perform horizontal sharding, version upgrades, and multi-ten
Meta has already begun preparing for the threats posed by quantum computing and migrating its systems to post-quantum cryptography, a complex process that will take multiple years to complete. In a recent article, Meta researchers outline their strategy and share key lessons learned along the way. B
Cloudflare announced Agent Memory in private beta, a managed service that extracts structured memories from AI agent conversations and retrieves them on demand using five-channel parallel retrieval with Reciprocal Rank Fusion. Shared memory profiles let teams of agents access common knowledge. Compe
Platform engineering has to be approached from a socio-technical perspective, and shaped by all stakeholders, not just developers, Sergiu Petean said in his talk Driving the Future of Insurance through Platform Engineering. Platform success depends on written principles that endure change while embr
DBmaestro has launched an MCP server that connects AI agents and enterprise copilots to its database DevOps platform, allowing teams to issue natural language commands that trigger real, governed platform workflows. The MCP server, announced on 7 April 2026, allows DBAs to expose DBmaestro's release
Netflix has introduced a "human infrastructure" layer to manage live broadcasts at scale. Using a low-latency "telemetry hot path" and a Live Operations Centre, the company now balances automated scaling with human oversight. This shift, which mirrors strategies at AWS and Disney+, focuses on mainta
DPoP closes a real gap in OAuth 2.0. Sender-constrained tokens are a meaningful upgrade over bearer tokens for any client that can implement them. But RFC 9449's silence on browser key storage creates the need for an architectural decision that each team must confront deliberately — there is no safe
Vercel has launched Open Agents, an open-source app that enables the creation and execution of background coding agents. It provides a complete stack for developers to run independent coding workflows without relying on local machines. By Robert Krzaczyński
Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 3, the third preview of its upcoming Standard Term Support version due in November 2026. The update spans the runtime, SDK, libraries, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, and .NET MAUI, with Runtime Async leaving the preview-feature gate, new JIT optimizations, Zstandard co
VoidZero has released an experimental Angular compiler in Rust, promising improved build performance compared to Angular CLI. Benchmarks indicate it is up to 6.4x faster than Angular CLI, especially for larger applications. Developed over two months with AI collaboration, it integrates with Vite and
Tracy Bannon shares a cautionary tale of "The Sorcerer’s Apprentice" to illustrate the risks of unbridled AI autonomy. She discusses the shift from bots to autonomous agents, explaining how reckless speed leads to "Architectural Amnesia." She provides a concrete framework for "Minimum Viable Governa
Sauce Labs has announced the general availability of Sauce AI for Test Authoring, an AI-driven agent designed to translate business intent directly into executable test suites, marking a shift toward what the company calls Intent-Driven Testing. By Craig Risi
The schedule for QCon AI Boston 2026 (June 1-2) is now live. The two-day program groups sessions around context engineering, inference economics, agent reliability, and how AI is changing the software development lifecycle. Speakers include engineers from DoorDash, LinkedIn, Netflix, Apple, and Red
Mistral AI has launched Workflows, an orchestration layer for enterprise AI that is now in public preview. This release addresses a significant challenge as AI models and agents become more advanced, while reliably deploying them in production remains difficult due to a lack of infrastructure for co
AWS Interconnect reached general availability, offering managed private Layer 3 connections to Google Cloud and a last-mile capability via Lumen. Azure and OCI support is planned for later in 2026. AWS published the underlying specification on GitHub under Apache 2.0, which Forrester analysts read a
AWS has introduced the public preview of OpenTelemetry metrics support in Amazon CloudWatch. This update allows developers to send metrics directly to CloudWatch using the OpenTelemetry protocol and view them alongside existing AWS service metrics. By Renato Losio
GitHub has launched a native stacked pull request workflow through a new CLI extension called gh-stack, closing a gap that third-party tools have filled for several years. It aims to resolve the problem where large pull requests are hard to review, slow to merge and prone to conflicts, with GitHub s
To sustain productivity in long-running agent systems, Slack engineers moved away from accumulating chat logs and started using structured memory, validation, and distilled truth to maintain coherence and accuracy of long-running agent systems. By Sergio De Simone
Google Cloud has introduced Agents CLI within its Agent Platform, aiming to streamline the development lifecycle of AI agents from local prototyping to production deployment. The release targets a common challenge in agent development, where tooling and infrastructure are often fragmented across mul
