The author, Ben Recht, proposes five research directions inspired by his graduate machine learning class, arguing for different research rather than just more. These prompts include adopting a design-based view for decision theory, explaining the robust scaling trends in competitive testing, and mov.. read more  

Slack pulled back the curtain onSlack AI, its LLM-powered assistant built with a fortress mindset. Every customer gets their ownisolated environment. Any data passed tovendor LLMs? It'sephemeral. Gone before it can stick. No fine-tuning. No exporting data outside Slack. And there’s a wholemiddle-lay.. read more  

Every millisecond matters in the critical path of API authentication. After two years of battling serverless limitations, the entire API stack was rebuilt to reduce end-to-end latency. The move from Cloudflare Workers to stateful Go servers resulted in a 6x performance improvement and simplified arc.. read more  

Datadog ditched its “never fail” mindset after a March 2023 meltdown knocked out half its Kubernetes nodes and took major user features down with them. The fix? A full-stack rethink built aroundgraceful degradation. The team addeddisk-based persistence at intake,live-data prioritization,QoS-aware re.. read more  

Lorin Hochstein argues that while high-profile engineer attrition is often speculated to contribute to major outages, it is universally absent from public Root Cause Analyses (RCAs). This exclusion occurs because public RCAs aim to reassure customers by focusing on technical fixes, whereas attrition.. read more  

The Declarative Action Architecture (DAA) is a scalable E2E testing pattern that separates concerns across three distinct layers. TheTest Layeris 100% declarative, statingwhatis being tested without any procedural logic, making tests read like documentation. The coreAction Layerimplements the execut.. read more  

A new open-source benchmark looked at 183,000 AWS Lambda invocations, andarm64 beats x86_64across the board in both cost and speed. Rust on arm64 with SHA-256 tuned in assembly? It clocks in 4–5× faster than x86 in CPU-heavy tasks. Cold starts are snappy too—5–8× quicker than Node.js and Python... read more  

Team Invictus caught a BEC attempt using WeTransfer to slip in a fake Microsoft 365 login page powered byEvilProxy. Classic Adversary-in-the-Middle move, but dressed up with a slick delivery package. Digging deeper, the team mapped the attacker’s setup and found something bigger: a credential grab c.. read more  

Agent Sandbox, a new Kubernetes primitive, was introduced at KubeCon NA 2025 to enhance AI agent management on Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.

AWS introduces Graviton5-based EC2 M9g instances, boosting performance by 25% and enhancing scalability while reducing costs.