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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Moltbook: Hype or the Singularity?

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Hysteria continues to build over Moltbook, the so-called AI Agent social network. If you believe Elon Musk, Moltbook is at

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Why Kubernetes is retiring Ingress NGINX

We warned you! Today, Ingress NGINX is still being used by 50% of Kubernetes users to manage incoming traffic, but it’s

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• Charles Humble

Durable Execution: Build reliable software in an unreliable world

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Software reliability is a persistent problem for developers because IT systems are built on unreliable components: hardware degrades; software has

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• Rahul Auradkar

Unlocking AI’s full potential: Why context is everything

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AI is ubiquitous in both the consumer and enterprise sectors. Yet few organizations are realizing AI’s full potential. Why? AI

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• Jack Wallen

Why enterprise businesses should adopt immutable Linux for the desktop

If you’ve been a part of the Linux community for even a brief period, over the past few years, chances

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• Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Chainguard admitted Factory 1.0 was “brittle.” Here’s how 2.0 fixes it.

The new, revised Factory 2.0 swaps out 1.0’s fragile, event-driven pipeline with a self-healing system powered by a new open

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• Frederic Lardinois

OpenAI’s Codex desktop app is all about managing agents

OpenAI is betting that coding agents are outgrowing the terminal. The company launched a macOS desktop app on Monday for its Codex

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• B. Cameron Gain

Beyond automation: Dynatrace unveils agentic AI that fixes problems on its own

AI unsurprisingly took center stage during the keynotes and throughout much of Dynatrace Perform 2026, the annual user conference last week

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• Max Liu

S3 is the new network: Rethinking data architecture for the cloud era

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For decades, distributed databases have been built around the assumption that storage will live close to compute. The farther data

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• Jack Wallen

Liya Linux proves high performance doesn’t require a command line

Any Linux distribution claiming that it wants to make Linux easy and accessible to the general public, as well as

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• David Cassel

50 years ago, a young Bill Gates took on the ‘software pirates’

Just months after his 20th birthday, Bill Gates had already angered the programmer community. As the first home computers began

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• David Eastman

Beating context rot in Claude Code with GSD

Until now, I’ve generally only used LLM tools with existing projects. Attempts to create detailed projects from scratch via agentic

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• Steve Corndell

The shift left hangover: Why modern platforms are shifting down to cure developer fatigue

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Over the last decade, “shift left” became the mantra of high-performing engineering organizations. The premise was sound: Move testing, security,

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• Frederic Lardinois

Anthropic brings plugins to Cowork

Anthropic is extending Cowork with a plugin system that bundles skills, connectors, slash commands, and sub-agents, giving non-developers the kind

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• Kat Gaines

When AI fails: The new reality of incident management

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If 2025 was the year of AI adoption, with 88% of organizations now using AI across at least one business

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• Jennifer Riggins

Why the forward-deployed engineer is tech’s hottest job

photo of foosball players. Forward deployed engineers have become more important in the age of AI.

Your LinkedIn is suddenly filled with posts and job ads for the forward-deployed engineer (FDE) role. What does that even

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• Jack Wallen

Forget VMware and VirtualBox: This should be your new VM manager

For decades, I used VirtualBox for all my virtual machine (VM) needs. I could use it as a graphical user

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• Frederic Lardinois

Gemini CLI gets its hooks into the agentic development loop

Google has added hooks to Gemini CLI, its terminal-based competitor to Anthropic’s Claude Code. Hooks ensure that Gemini CLI runs

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• Heather Joslyn

Meet Gravitino, a geo-distributed, federated metadata lake

In this episode of TNS Makers, Junping (JP) Du, founder and CEO of Datastrato, argues that this must change as AI fundamentally alters how data and metadata are consumed, governed, and understood.

In the new world of agentic AI, the discussion has revolved around data: governance, storage, and compute. But what about

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• Arjun Iyer

Ramp’s Inspect shows closed-loop AI agents are software’s future

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The recent release of the background coding agent Inspect by Ramp’s engineering team serves as a definitive proof point that

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• Ibrahim Kamal

Prompting vs. RAG vs. fine-tuning: Why it’s not a ladder

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Teams usually assume there’s a straightforward progression from prompt engineering through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to fine-tuning (the last rung on

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• Loraine Lawson

Mastra empowers web devs to build AI agents in TypeScript

A cartoon AI agent bot.

Python dominated the early days of machine learning, but that’s changing as AI becomes more mainstream. Take, for instance, the

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• Joab Jackson

Kubernetes telemetry feature fully compromises clusters

If Kubernetes admins don’t have enough to worry about with the upcoming Nginx gateway cutoff, they now may need to

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• Frederic Lardinois

With Auto Browse, Google Chrome can now surf the web for you

For a while now, Google has been on a mission to extend its Chrome browser with more AI features, powered

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• Dmitry Shurupov

A decade of werf, a software delivery tool for Kubernetes

Various cloud native projects are celebrating their first decade. While there are obvious big names, such as Kubernetes itself, Helm,

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• Richard MacManus

Drupal turns 25: From simple to complex — then simple again

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It’s rare that a web product lasts 25 years, given how fast the industry cycles through technologies. But this month

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• Cynthia Dunlop

Agoda’s secret to 50x scale: Getting the database basics right

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Agoda is the Singapore wing of Booking Holdings, the world’s leading provider of online travel (the brand behind Booking.com, Kayak,

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• Joab Jackson

Terraform challenger Formae expands to more clouds

Late last year, startup Platform Engineering Labs made waves in the world of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) by introducing a new

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• Janakiram MSV

Open Responses vs. Chat Completion: A new era for AI apps

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The ability to build portable, provider-agnostic AI applications is the future of agentic development. For the past few years, OpenAI’s

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• Mandi Walls

The agentic revolution: A new vision for SREs

Gauge showing reliability at 100%.

Site reliability engineers (SREs) are no longer an afterthought for harried IT leaders. They play a critical role in ensuring

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