Cloudflare just released its 2025 Radar Year in Review, a systems report on how the Internet actually behaved last year. A few things stood out in my opinion: 👉 Most AI systems take far more than they give back. AI bots now account for a meaningful slice of web traffic. Googlebot alone generates mor.. read more  

A fresh take on Rust error handling just dropped - and it's calling out the usual suspects. Forget blindly forwarding errors withanyhowor smearing context around withProvider. This approach pushes forstructured, intent-driven error types- errors that say what to do next (like "retry this") instead o.. read more  

New data shows only15% of code review comments catch real bugs. The rest? Nitpicks on style, naming, or formatting - stuff linters and AI were made to handle. Human reviews burn through$3.6M a yearin larger orgs and still miss the tough stuff: threading issues, system integration bugs, rare edge cas.. read more  

Patreon engineers made massive bets in 2025, shipping code across all areas of the system and enabling impactful features like Autopilot's growth tools suite. Expanding Autopilot's scope, reach, and effectiveness was a challenge, especially guaranteeing recipient redemption after email delivery in a.. read more  

A seasoned dev maps the job market into three tiers:local/public companies,VC-backed/startups, andBig Tech/finance. Each step up brings more money, more competition, and a steeper climb. Category 3(Big Tech/finance): Highest salaries. Broadest interview access. Brutal prep required. Category 2(start.. read more  

A security researcher ran a full-blown container escape on EKS usingBadPods- a tool that spins up dangerously overprivileged pods. The pod broke out of its container, poked around the host node, moved laterally, and swiped AWS IAM creds. All of it slipped past EKS’s defaultPod Security Admission (PS.. read more  

GitLab Runners now work withAmazon EKS Auto Mode. That means hands-off infra, smarter scaling, and built-in AWS security. Runners spin up onEC2 Spot Instances, so teams can cut CI/CD compute costs by as much as90%- without hacking together flaky pipelines... read more  

Kubernetes 1.34 droppedDynamic Resource Allocation (DRA)- think persistent volumes, but for GPUs and custom hardware. Vendors can now plug in drivers and schedulers for their devices, and workloads can pick exactly what they need. Coming in 1.35: a newworkload abstractionthat speaks the language of .. read more  

Dapr droppedDurable Agents- a mashup of classic workflows and LLM-driven agents that can actually get things done and survive rough edges. They track reasoning steps, tool calls, and chat states like a champ. If things crash, no problem: Dapr Workflows and Diagrid Catalyst bring it all back... read more