AWS’s us-east-1 faceplanted for 14 hours after arace conditioninDynamoDBkicked off a DNS meltdown, taking down 140 services. EC2 buckled under acongestive collapse, overwhelmed by a backup in DropletWorkflow Manager queues. Meanwhile, NLB health checks kept firing blanks - tricked by stale network s.. read more  

A plain-oldgit repo on an SSH-accessible servercan double as a lean deployment rig. Drop in somegit hooks- like apost-receive- and every push can kick off static site builds or publish code on the spot. No extra tools. Just Git doing Git things. Turns basic Git infra into a no-frills CI/CD pipeline... read more  

Nanit ditched S3’s PutObject-heavy ingest path and built a customRust-based in-memory landing zone (N3). It cut ~$500K/year in storage ops. N3 grabs short-lived video chunks straight into RAM and only spills to S3 when it has to. Ordering stays tight thanks toSQS FIFO, and fallback kicks in clean wh.. read more  

AWS has launched Project Rainier, a massive AI compute cluster with nearly half a million Trainium2 chips, in collaboration with Anthropic to advance AI infrastructure and model development.

Amazon apologized for a major AWS outage in the Northern Virginia region, caused by a race condition in the DynamoDB DNS management system, affecting services like DynamoDB, Network Load Balancer, and EC2.

In 2025, GitHub saw a surge in growth with AI advancements, as TypeScript overtook Python and JavaScript in popularity, fueled by the release of GitHub Copilot Free and a global developer expansion.

Grafana Tempo 2.9 debuts with MCP server support and TraceQL metrics sampling, enhancing data analysis and query efficiency.