Datadog ditched its “never fail” mindset after a March 2023 meltdown knocked out half its Kubernetes nodes and took major user features down with them. The fix? A full-stack rethink built aroundgraceful degradation. The team addeddisk-based persistence at intake,live-data prioritization,QoS-aware re.. read more  

The Declarative Action Architecture (DAA) is a scalable E2E testing pattern that separates concerns across three distinct layers. TheTest Layeris 100% declarative, statingwhatis being tested without any procedural logic, making tests read like documentation. The coreAction Layerimplements the execut.. read more  

Team Invictus caught a BEC attempt using WeTransfer to slip in a fake Microsoft 365 login page powered byEvilProxy. Classic Adversary-in-the-Middle move, but dressed up with a slick delivery package. Digging deeper, the team mapped the attacker’s setup and found something bigger: a credential grab c.. read more  

A new open-source benchmark looked at 183,000 AWS Lambda invocations, andarm64 beats x86_64across the board in both cost and speed. Rust on arm64 with SHA-256 tuned in assembly? It clocks in 4–5× faster than x86 in CPU-heavy tasks. Cold starts are snappy too—5–8× quicker than Node.js and Python... read more  

AWS introduces Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances, boosting performance by 25% and enhancing scalability while reducing costs.