Marc Brooker breaks down the jump fromAmazon DynamotoDynamoDBandAurora DSQL, tracing how the guts of cloud databases have changed. It’s a story about dropping old trade-offs and picking up stronger guarantees. DynamoDB ditches the old hash-ring replication for multi-AZ replica sets backed by Paxos...

GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps just got sharper: it now checks if leaked secrets are actuallyvalid. Secrets are flagged asActiveorUnknownby pinging providers in real time. No setup needed. It auto-kicks in for supported secret types. Why care?Because not every secret leak is an emergenc..

TechRadar rounds up the best Linux distros for devs.Manjarodelivers Arch power without the pain.DebianandUbuntu LTShold steady for those who put uptime over edge.Fedorakeeps the new stuff flowing. Solusrolls with a tight curation hand—smooth updates, no chaos.Mocaccinoaims at Gentoo lovers who want..

ClickHouse ran five LLMs through an autonomous root cause gauntlet using OpenTelemetry data. None nailed it solo. OpenAI’s o3 and Claude Sonnet 4 came closest. GPT-4.1 was the cheapest brain on the block. Things got weird under the hood. Token usage spiked unpredictably. Queries slammed observabili..

DuckDB is an open-source in-process SQL OLAP database management system optimized for analytical queries. It can efficiently handle large datasets in a memory-efficient manner, making it suitable for serverless architectures. A DuckDB Lambda layer can be used to run performant queries on remote data..

Airbnb yanked tens of millions of lines of Java, Kotlin, and Scala out of Gradle and dropped them intoBazel. Why? Faster builds, reproducible results, and smoother dev workflows. They didn’t just swap tools—they rewired the whole thing. A customautomated build file generatornow slices up targets fi..

Git worktrees have been around since 2015, but few devs use them like they could. They let you work on multiple branches at once—each in its own directory—without the usual stash-switch-stash-repeat dance. The real power move? Pair them with abare repo. That gives you a clean, central base where ea..

Kubernetes v1.34makesNodeSwapofficial. For the first time, swap on Linux nodes is fully supported—breaking with the old norm of just turning it off. Why it matters: NodeSwap gives the kubelet a pressure valve. Instead of firing off OOM kills, it can push some memory to disk. But this isn’t a free w..

Kubernetes v1.34 lands August 2025 with a clear agenda: smarter scheduling, tighter control, fewer surprises. Dynamic Resource Allocationgoes stable, letting clusters actually reason about GPUs, FPGAs, and NICs. AI/ML and HPC jobs stop guessing and start requesting what they need. ServiceAccount t..

More devs are spinning upKubernetes clusters on stripped-down Linux distros—thinkRaspberry Pi OS,Debian,Talos Linux,Fedora CoreOS. MicroK8s and k3s make low-power, ARM-first deployments feel less like a science project. Talos Linux? It’s the wildcard—API-only node opsand animmutable, locked-down de..