Lorin Hochstein argues that while high-profile engineer attrition is often speculated to contribute to major outages, it is universally absent from public Root Cause Analyses (RCAs). This exclusion occurs because public RCAs aim to reassure customers by focusing on technical fixes, whereas attrition.. 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  

Agent Sandbox, a new Kubernetes primitive, was introduced at KubeCon NA 2025 to enhance AI agent management on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.

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

The development of "Arti," a Rust-based Tor implementation funded by Zcash, aims to enhance security and efficiency by addressing the limitations of the current C-based Tor.

The enhanced Gemini Deep Research agent is now available via API, enabling developers to integrate advanced research capabilities into applications, with the open-sourcing of DeepSearchQA for evaluating complex tasks.