Meta built an AI agent system internally called the AI Second Brain that now has over 63,000 installs and ~10,000 daily active users across engineering, PM, design, legal, finance, comms, and sales, growing from zero in roughly three months after a non-technical PM's adoption post. The architecture .. read more  

Local LLMs work best as supervised coding assistants. The writer ran Qwen 3.5 9B (Q4) in LM Studio on a 24GB MacBook Pro and got about 40 tokens per second, with thinking mode, tool use, and a 128K context window. The author saw mixed results: Qwen helped with simple Elixir linter edits, then failed.. read more  

AWS now offers AWS MCP Server as a managed remote MCP server in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt). MCP-compatible clients can use existing IAM credentials to access more than 15,000 AWS API operations. For GA, AWS added IAM context keys, documentation retrieval without authentication, low.. read more  

Netflix's Saish Sali, Nipun Kumar, and Sura Elamurugu describe the Metadata Service (MDS), a graph layer built to connect siloed ML tooling (model registry, pipeline orchestrator, experimentation platform, feature store, dataset platform, identity) across personalization, studio, payments, and ads. .. read more  

Queues do not create capacity, they delay the moment insufficient capacity becomes visible, and sustained overload turns a queue from a smoothing buffer into a cascading failure that takes down databases, connection pools, and consumer instances before it ever hits the queue's own limits... read more  

Joe Mckevitt, CTO of Uptime Labs, argues that incident prevention and incident preparation are not substitutes, and that organizations relying on the heroic engineer who knows the infrastructure at 2amhave a habit, not a strategy. The piece pushes for a deliberate playbook (practiced communication, .. read more  

AWS launchedS3 Files, an EFS-backed feature that mounts any S3 bucket or prefix as an NFS filesystem on EC2, containers, or Lambda, with changes batched back to S3 roughly every 60 seconds. Rather than collapsing file and object semantics into a single model (an early design attempt called "EFS3" th.. read more  

A 54-day SSH honeypot on port 22 logged 268,000+ login attempts from 7,556 IPs, with 99.6% of attackers running a single automated fingerprinting command and only 28 ever opening an interactive shell. The data shows hardcoded IoT credentials and Solana validator hunting dominating the password lists.. read more  

A walkthrough of migrating 248 GB of MySQL across 30 databases, 34 Nginx sites, GitLab EE, and Neo4j from a $1,432/month DigitalOcean droplet to a $233/month Hetzner AX162-R dedicated box with no downtime. The path:mydumper/myloaderwith 32 threads for the bulk MySQL 5.7 to 8.0 import, master-to-repl.. read more  

🌍 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 (𝗚𝗧𝗠) Delivering fast, resilient applications globally isn’t optional anymore—it’s expected. Global Traffic Management (GTM) ensures users are always routed to the 𝗯𝗲𝘀𝘁-𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿, improving performance, availability, and scal..