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• TNS Staff

True enterprise sovereignty is more approachable than ever, thanks to K8s-powered cloud-neutral PostgreSQL

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For years, the debate around digital sovereignty focused on infrastructure. Now the spotlight is shifting to a far more valuable

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Model Flop Utilization is the metric Aria Networks says will define the AI infrastructure era

As the global race to provide AI infrastructure services accelerates, Aria Networks claims it has engineered a “fundamentally different approach”

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Anthropic’s harness shakeup “just fragments workflows,” developers warn

If AI usage can be said to be in a period of embryonic enlightenment, developer licensing and pricing structures for

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• Jessica Wachtel

MCP servers turn Claude into a reasoning engine for your data

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Claude knows virtually everything that’s ever been publicly available on the internet by default. But it knows absolutely nothing about

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• Eric Newcomer

MCP maintainers from Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and OpenAI lay out enterprise security roadmap at Dev Summit

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In a roundtable panel at the MCP Dev Summit last week in New York, Model Context Protocol (MCP) maintainers from

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• TNS Staff

Is observability still an operations problem at your organization?

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Find out how putting runtime telemetry directly in the hands of developers can help your team debug faster, reduce escalations,

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• Janakiram MSV

Cursor’s $2 billion bet: The IDE is now a fallback, not the default

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Last week, the AI code editor with the fastest revenue growth in the category shipped a product that is not

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• B. Cameron Gain

SUSE Rancher and Vultr want to break AI infrastructure free from the hyperscalers

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Organizations looking to scale their AI workloads and infrastructure on Kubernetes were largely limited to expensive hyperscaler options. As DevOps

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• B. Cameron Gain

Vultr says its Nvidia-powered AI infrastructure costs 50% to 90% less than hyperscalers

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Vultr is using Nvidia GPUs and AI agents like OpenClaw to automate infrastructure setup for developers — and says the

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• David Cassel

“I started to lose my ability to code”: developers grapple with the real cost of AI programming tools

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Maybe it started in February, when programmer and entrepreneur Paul Ford, 51, wrote a guest essay for The New York

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• Kayla Bondy

Digital Experience Monitoring belongs in the modern developer workflow

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The frontend is where the user experience happens. More logic runs in the browser. More state lives on the client.

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• Alasdair Brown

The hidden reason your AI assistant feels so sluggish

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AI workloads are exposing a mismatch in how most teams have built their data platforms. You see it whether you

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• Ed Huang

The laptop return that broke a RAG pipeline

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And how to fix it with hybrid search A few months ago, one of our users filed a bug report

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• Meredith Shubel

Anthropic’s rough week: leaked models, exposed source code, and a botched GitHub takedown

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Anthropic’s had a rough streak of luck lately.  Last week, Fortune reported on an accidental leak of the AI company’s development of

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• Darryl K. Taft

Microsoft execs warn agentic AI is hollowing out the junior developer pipeline

Two of Microsoft’s most prominent developers have some words for organizations overly celebrating agentic AI’s productivity gains: You are hollowing

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Why pgEdge thinks MCP (not an API) is the right way for AI agents to talk to databases

The Postgres open-source object-relational database system can trace its history back to some three decades, but it’s no artifact. Its

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• Dan Lorenc

The TeamPCP attacks are a warning: Your CI/CD pipeline is the new front line

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We built the modern software supply chain on a flawed assumption: that the systems and dependencies we rely on are

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• Arjun Iyer

Why coding agents will break your CI/CD pipeline (and how to fix it)

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Every engineering leader I speak with lately is quietly asking the exact same question. The conversation has shifted entirely. We

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• B. Cameron Gain

Why Broadcom gave Velero to the CNCF Sandbox — and what it means for Kubernetes data protection

In a podcast recorded at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, Dilpreet Bindra emphasized that open source success comes not just from code contributions, but also from relinquishing control to empower the broader ecosystem and drive sustainable innovation.

Broadcom has deep roots as one of the leading contributors to CNCF open source as it continues to extend its

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• Janakiram MSV

OpenClaw vs. Hermes Agent: The race to build AI assistants that never forget

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Every developer who has used an AI coding assistant has experienced the same frustration: You spend an afternoon teaching Claude

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• Brian Wald

There’s a hidden tax on every AI-generated merge request

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AI coding tools haven’t removed bottlenecks. They’ve moved them to the review queue, putting more pressure on senior engineers. This

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• TNS Staff

Moving beyond the “magic scaling sauce” myth

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The following is an excerpt from the just-published second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann and Chris Riccomini.

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• Sean Falconer

Why programming became the proving ground for AI

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I’ve always felt that AI found its footing in software engineering first because, frankly, the environment is honest. When you’re

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• Zohar Einy

The hidden technical debt of agentic engineering

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Anyone today can build an agent locally with minimal effort. With some LLM calls, a prompt, and a few tool

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• Jack Wallen

How to integrate VS Code with Ollama for local AI assistance

If you’re starting your journey as a programmer and want to jump-start that process, you might be interested in taking

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• Janakiram MSV

Inside Claude Code’s leaked source: swarms, daemons, and 44 features Anthropic kept behind flags

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On Wednesday, security researcher Chaofan Shou discovered that Anthropic had shipped version 2.1.88 of Claude Code with a 59.8MB source

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Edge-forward: Akamai eyes sweet spot between centralized & decentralized AI inference

At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026, Lena Hall and Thorsten Hans of Akamai outlined how the company is evolving from a CDN provider into a developer-focused cloud platform for AI.

For this edition of The New Stack Makers, we sit down with two leaders at Akamai: Lena Hall, senior director,

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• Darryl K. Taft

JetBrains: AI agents are about to repeat the cloud ROI crisis

Deploying AI coding agents is no longer hard, but knowing whether they’re working and keeping them from becoming another unmanaged

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• Paul Sawers

Why Cursor is bringing self-hosted AI agents to the Fortune 500

Bringing agents closer to the code

For AI coding agents to work effectively, they need access to a broad range of systems — from private repositories

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• Adrian Bridgwater

Portkey open-sources its AI gateway after processing 2 trillion tokens a day

Portkey defines itself as a company that provides a control plane for production AI deployments. This month, the company launched

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