Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 employees to streamline operations and boost AI investment, part of a broader strategy affecting up to 30,000 jobs.

AWS dropped a new cost-performance playbook pittingAmazon ECSagainstAWS Lambda. It's not just a tech choice - it’s a workload strategy. Go containers when you’ve got steady traffic, high CPU or memory needs, or sticky app state. Go serverless for spiky, event-driven bursts that don’t need a long lea.. read more  

CircleCI droppedautonomous validation, a smarter CI/CD that thinks on its feet. It scans your code, predicts breakage, runs only the tests that matter - and fixes the easy stuff on its own. If things get messy, it hands off full context so you’re not digging through logs. Bonus: it keeps learning fr.. read more  

Netflix built a Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG) to connect member interactions across different devices instantly. Using Apache Flink and Kafka, they process up to1 millionmessages per second for node and edge updates. Scaling Flink jobs individually reduced operational headaches and allowed for s.. read more  

Microsoft just pulled off full-stack quantum teleportation withAzure Quantum, wiring up Qiskit and Quantinuum’s simulator in the process. Entanglement? Check. Hadamard and CNOT gates set the stage. Classical control logic wrangles the flow. Validation lands cleanly on the backend... read more  

MinIO transitions to a source-only distribution model, ending pre-compiled Docker images, sparking community concerns over security and feature removal.

Cloudflare introduces a private beta for its Email Service, integrating email sending into Workers to streamline email management and enhance delivery reliability for developers.

Platform Engineering Labs introduces formae, an open-source IaC platform, to streamline cloud resource management and replace traditional systems like Terraform.

GitLab 18.5 introduces a new panel-based UI and AI-driven tools to enhance usability, streamline workflows, and improve security with features like automated vulnerability triage and Static Reachability Analysis.