Anthropic’s sharpening the blueprint for building tools that play nice withLLM agents. TheirModel Context Protocol (MCP)leans hard into three pillars: test in loops, design for humans, format like context matters—because it does. They co-develop tools with agents like Claude Code. That means protot.. read more  

A fresh CVE (2025-55305) just put Electron apps in the hot seat. The bug? Chromium-based apps fail to treatV8 heap snapshot filesas potential attack vectors. That crack lets unsigned JavaScript slip past code signing and run inside heavyweight targets like Slack, 1Password, and Signal. The heart of.. read more  

Logical clocks trackevent orderin distributed systems—no need for synced wall clocks. Each node keeps a counter. On every event: tick it. On every message: tack on your counter. When you receive one? Merge and bump. This flips the script. Instead of chasing global time, distributed systems lean int.. read more  

Klaviyo replaced ProxySQL on EC2 and moved toAWS RDS Proxy. Why? Less overhead. Simpler failovers. Smarter pooling. RDS Proxy handlesmultiplexing, packing thousands of client queries into way fewer DB connections. IAM access and built-in failover routing sweeten the deal... read more  

TheExternal Secrets Operator (ESO)is moving again. After hitting pause from maintainer burnout, it’s back under CNCF incubation—with a rebooted structure in place. New governance, clear contributor paths, and support tracks for CI, core dev, and testing are all in. But don’t expect fresh releases ju.. read more  

A fresh look at Linux monitoring tools shows the classics still hold—but the visual crowd’s moving in. Old-school command-liners liketopandvmstatremain go-to’s for quick reads. But picks likeNetdata,btop, andMonitbring dashboards, colors, and actual UX. Tools likeiftop,Nmon, andSuricatastretch deep.. read more  

Calling outfive sneaky AWS cost traps—the kind that creep in through overlooked defaults and quiet misconfigs, then blow up your bill while no one's watching... read more  

Rich Hickey’s classic “Simple Made Easy” talk is making the rounds again—as a mirror held up to dev culture under pressure. The punchline: we keep picking solutions that areeasy but tangled, instead ofsimple and sane. The essay draws a sharp line between that habit and a concept from biology: exapt.. read more  

Kubernetes'Vertical Pod Autoscaler (VPA)tries to be helpful by tweaking CPU and memory requests on the fly. Problem is, it needs to bounce your pods to do it. And if you're also runningHorizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA)on the same metrics? Now they're fighting over control. VPA sees a narrow slice of .. read more  

AI isn’t just burning compute—it's torching old-school FinOps. Reserved Instances? Idle detection? Cute, but not built for GPU bottlenecks and model-heavy pipelines. What’s actually happening:Infra teams are ditching cost-first playbooks for something smarter—business-aligned orchestrationthat chas.. read more