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P.01AMD acquired Taalas on August 6, a startup that hardwires model weights directly into chip silicon instead of loading them from memory. Here's what that trade-off means for inference cost, and why it can't replace your GPU fleet.
P.02An SLA is a promise with a penalty. An SLO is the internal target that keeps you inside that promise. An error budget is what's left before you breach it. Here's how the three fit together, with the math worked through on a real example.
P.03A one-line control-flow change meant to patch CVE-2026-29146 quietly broke Tomcat's cluster encryption instead. CISA confirmed active exploitation on August 4 and set an August 7 remediation deadline. Here's what happened and what to patch.
P.04CVE-2026-20079 is a critical Cisco Secure FMC authentication bypass with a maximum 10.0 CVSS score, disclosed months before the hardcoded-password bug that made headlines. Here's why it matters anyway, and what to patch.
P.05CISA added two FortiSandbox command injection bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 16. Chained with a third flaw, they let an attacker with no credentials at all reach root. Here's how the chain works and what to patch.
P.06A static credential baked into on-prem Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center is being exploited in the wild. Here's who's affected, why a 5.3 CVSS score undersells it, and what to check right now.
P.07SambaNova raised $1 billion at an $11 billion valuation on July 8, 2026, to build inference-specific chips instead of training hardware. What the inference funding wave means for teams running AI in production.
P.08The short answer: BullMQ for Node, Celery for Python, Sidekiq for Ruby, and Temporal or a cloud-managed queue when you need durability without owning broker infrastructure. Here's the reasoning, a comparison table, and working code.
P.09CISA added CVE-2025-68686, a FortiOS bypass of the SSL-VPN symlink persistence patch, to its KEV catalog on July 27. It only matters if a device was ever compromised through an older Fortinet bug and never forensically cleaned.
P.10CISA added CVE-2026-16812, an unauthenticated OS command injection in Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator scored a maximum 10.0 CVSS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on July 27. Here's who's affected, what's patched, and what to check first.
P.11CVE-2026-20262 lets an authenticated attacker write files on Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and escalate to root. It's in CISA's KEV catalog with the deadline already passed. Here's who's affected and what to patch.
P.12Ollama closed a $65M Series B led by Theory Ventures on July 9, 2026, bringing total funding to $88M and its developer base to nearly 9 million, with 85% of Fortune 500 companies reportedly using it. Here's what the raise signals for teams weighing local versus API-hosted inference.
P.13A CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite's Payments module has been under active exploitation since late June, and roughly 950 instances are still potentially exposed. Here's what's affected and the fix.
P.14Two chained SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, an unauthenticated CVSS 10.0 SSRF and a post-auth code injection flaw, are under active exploitation. Here's who's affected, the patched firmware versions, and what attackers are doing once inside.
P.15Together AI raised $800 million at an $8.3 billion valuation on July 1, 2026, with annual bookings past $1.15 billion. What the numbers say about the economics of running open-weights models versus closed APIs.
P.16A hacker claimed to steal 35GB from Accenture in July 2026, including source code, RSA and SSH keys, and Azure access tokens. The source code isn't the risk. The credentials filed next to it are. Here's the audit worth running on your own repos this week.
P.17Platform engineering has its own hiring cluster now, distinct from DevOps, SRE, and cloud architecture. Here's how to define the role correctly, screen candidates for product thinking over ticket-taking, and avoid paying platform-engineer money for ops-with-a-new-title.
P.18A forged OIDC token in SimpleHelp RMM lets an unauthenticated attacker create an admin account and reach every endpoint the instance manages. CISA added it to the KEV catalog on June 29. Here's what it means if your agency or your vendors use SimpleHelp.
P.19An unauthenticated SSRF flaw in Cisco Unified Communications Manager is being actively exploited to write files, plant a webshell, and reach root. Here's the attack chain, who's affected, and how to patch or work around it.
P.20Deno Sandbox spins up isolated Firecracker microVMs in under 200ms for running code you don't trust, AI-agent output included. Here's how it works and a working example.
P.21Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from ad-supported pages by default starting September 15, 2026, and is rolling out a pay-per-use model for publishers. Here's what site owners actually need to configure.
P.22OpenAI is launching GPT-5.6 Sol on Cerebras wafer-scale hardware in July 2026 at up to 750 tokens per second, roughly an order of magnitude faster than typical GPU inference. Here's who that speed is actually for.
P.23Three maximum-severity UniFi OS flaws chain into unauthenticated root code execution and are being exploited in the wild by a Mirai-derived botnet. Here's what's affected, how the chain works, and how to patch it today.
P.24On June 24, 2026, Qualcomm announced a $3.92B all-stock acquisition of Modular, the company behind the Mojo programming language and MAX inference engine. The bet: give AI developers a hardware-agnostic path that bypasses NVIDIA's CUDA lock-in. Here's what actually changes.
P.25DevSecOps is a distinct discipline from DevOps and from security engineering. Here's what the role actually covers, what skills to screen for, and why supply chain security is now the core competency.
P.26June 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest monthly security release of the year: 206 CVEs, 37 rated Critical, three publicly disclosed zero-days, and a Splunk Enterprise RCE that attackers started exploiting within days of disclosure. Here's what to patch first.
P.27Site Reliability Engineering is a specific discipline, not a synonym for DevOps. Here is how to define the role correctly, screen for the right skills, and avoid hiring an ops generalist and calling them an SRE.
P.28Firebase's complexity and Supabase's Postgres assumptions do not fit every project. PocketBase, Appwrite, and Convex each solve the backend problem differently. Here is when each one makes sense.
P.29Cloud architect is one of the most misused titles in hiring. Here is how to define the role correctly, screen for real judgment, and avoid hiring a certification collection.
P.30Data engineers build the pipelines, warehouses, and transformation layers that make data useful. They are not data scientists, not backend developers, and not analysts. Here is how to hire for the actual role.
P.31Go powers Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, and half the cloud infrastructure tooling used by modern engineering teams. Hiring the right Go developer means understanding what the language attracts and what it demands.
P.32Three tools, three different bets on where complexity belongs. Here's how to choose between BullMQ, Inngest, and Temporal based on what your system actually needs — not what sounds most impressive.
P.33OpenFeature is now a CNCF incubating project with broad SDK support. Here's how to use vendor-neutral feature flags in production — and why the standard matters more than the specific tool you back it with.
P.34Durable Objects solve the coordination problem that makes edge computing hard: how do you maintain consistent state across distributed nodes? Here's how they work and when to use them.
P.35Kafka is the default answer for message queuing at scale. But for teams running fewer than a million messages per day, NATS JetStream offers persistence, delivery guarantees, and a dramatically simpler operational footprint.
P.36A practical guide to setting up metrics collection with Prometheus and visualization with Grafana for backend services — what to instrument, what to skip, and what the dashboards should actually show.
P.37Dev Containers let you define your entire development environment in a JSON file. New team members are productive in minutes, not days. Here's how to set them up properly.
P.38Vulnerability scanning catches known CVEs in your base images and dependencies before they reach production. Here's how to set up Trivy and Snyk, understand their output, and act on what they find.
P.39A bloated Docker image costs you in pull times, storage fees, and attack surface. Here's how to build images that are small, fast to rebuild, and genuinely production-ready.
P.40R2's zero-egress pricing looks compelling on paper. Here's when it actually saves money, when S3's ecosystem still wins, and how to migrate if you decide to switch.
P.41Logs tell you what happened. Error tracking tells you what broke, in what context, for which users. Here's how to set up Sentry properly and avoid the alert fatigue that makes it useless.
P.42The fear of vendor lock-in leads to over-engineering. Here's a practical framework for deciding when to abstract cloud dependencies and when accepting lock-in is the right call.
P.43ClickHouse is a columnar database designed for analytical workloads. It answers queries over billions of rows in seconds that would take minutes in Postgres. Here's what application developers need to know.
P.44HTTP/3 replaces TCP with QUIC, a UDP-based protocol that eliminates head-of-line blocking and handles packet loss better. Here's when that matters, when it doesn't, and how to enable and verify it.
P.45Blue-green and canary deployments give you a way to release software without taking down your service or discovering a bug when it's already affecting everyone. Here's how they work and when to use each.
P.46eBPF lets you attach programs to any kernel hook — network packets, system calls, function calls — without patching the kernel or rebooting. Here's what application developers actually need to know.
P.47Tailscale creates a private mesh network across any combination of cloud servers, developer laptops, and office machines — without port forwarding, firewall rules, or dedicated VPN hardware.
P.48Multi-cloud gets pitched as the default choice for serious companies. The reality is more nuanced — and for most teams, the complexity cost is higher than the lock-in risk it's supposed to prevent.
P.49A practical guide to transactional email for web apps in 2026 — comparing Resend, Amazon SES, and SendGrid, with a focus on SPF/DKIM/DMARC setup and the common deliverability mistakes teams make.
P.50OpenTelemetry is the observability standard now. Most tutorials show you how to install the SDK and emit traces. Fewer explain which signals actually matter for web applications and which add noise without helping you debug anything.
P.51Password resets, invoices, and notification emails are infrastructure. Most developers treat them as an afterthought until a client asks why their welcome emails are disappearing. Here is the full picture.
P.52When your AI agent needs to run the code it writes, you can't let it touch your production servers. Here's how the main isolation options work and when to use each.
P.53HPA scales on CPU and memory. But most production workloads don't scale well on those signals. KEDA, VPA, and Goldilocks fill the gaps that HPA leaves open.
P.54The queries that destroy production Postgres databases share a small set of root causes. Here is how to find them, understand what EXPLAIN ANALYZE is telling you, and fix them without guessing.
P.55Single-provider AI dependencies are a reliability risk. Routing layers like LiteLLM and OpenRouter let you fall back across providers, cap costs, and try smaller models first. Here is the architecture and when it actually matters.
P.56gRPC has been available for years but many teams default to REST without thinking through the tradeoffs. Here's how gRPC works, where it fits, and where it doesn't.
P.57Connection exhaustion is one of the most common production failures for apps that scale. Here's how pooling works, which tool fits which setup, and the configuration decisions that matter.
P.58Site reliability engineering was designed for teams of hundreds. Most of its principles translate directly to teams of 5. Here is what a practical incident response process looks like when nobody has 'SRE' in their title.
P.59Leaked credentials are the most preventable category of security breach. Here is an honest look at when you need a dedicated secrets manager, which tool to pick, and what to do if you're still on .env files.
P.60Service meshes promise secure, observable microservice communication. But most teams that adopt one do so before they need it. Here is how to decide, and what each option actually costs you.
P.61Message queues and event streams solve different problems. Kafka is not always the right answer. Here's how to think through event-driven patterns and choose the right tool for your production workload.
P.62Running containers in production without scanning them is the equivalent of shipping code without running tests. Here's how teams scan images, generate SBOMs, and add runtime protection, from the CI step to the cluster.
P.63Background jobs that crash mid-execution lose all their state. Temporal solves this by making workflows durable state machines that survive process restarts, deploys, and outages. Here's what it looks like in TypeScript and Python.
P.64HashiCorp moved Terraform to a Business Source License in August 2023. OpenTofu forked it under the MPL. Pulumi took a different path entirely. Two and a half years on, the dust has settled enough to make a clear-headed choice.
P.65In March 2024, Redis Ltd. relicensed Redis under a source-available license. Within weeks, the Linux Foundation forked it as Valkey. Two years on, here's how the split played out and what it means for teams choosing an in-memory data store today.
P.66Explore the shift towards serverless edge computing in the post-cloud era, focusing on performance improvements, cost savings, and real-world case studies of enterprises leveraging this technology.
P.67RAM prices surged 90% in Q1 2026 as AI data centers consume 70% of global memory. Here's how the shortage impacts developers, hardware costs, and what you can do about it.
P.68Analyzing the February 2026 Cloudflare edge network outage: cascading failures, bypassed canary deployments, R2 and Workers impact. Real architecture lessons for building resilient distributed systems.
P.69How running AI models at the edge enables real-time intelligence for IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart manufacturing. A developer guide to edge AI platforms, frameworks, and opportunities in 2026.
P.70The EV charging software market is exploding. Learn how developers can build with OCPP, fleet management APIs, payment integration, and smart grid optimization in this booming $100B+ infrastructure sector.
P.71WASI 0.3 introduces native async I/O, stream types, and full socket support to WebAssembly. We analyze the Component Model changes, language support, and why this release finally makes Wasm viable for production server workloads.
P.72EditorPickA deep dive into the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam — $200B in pledged investments, sovereign AI models, the MANAV framework, and what it all means for builders and founders.
P.73AWS and Google Cloud announced cross-cloud interconnect integration with encrypted-by-default networking. After years of vendor lock-in wars, competitors are collaborating. We break down what it means and what it does not.
P.74EditorPickMicrosoft ($17.5B), Amazon ($35B) & Google ($15B) are investing $67.5B in India's data centres. Here's what this AI infrastructure race means for India's tech future.
P.75GitOps adoption hit 64% in 2025, and the next evolution is integrating real-time cost visibility into every infrastructure pull request. We break down why GitOps plus FinOps is the operational model serious teams are adopting in 2026.
P.76Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are collectively spending $650 billion on AI infrastructure in 2026. We break down what each company is building, why the numbers keep climbing, and what it means for developers.
P.77Alphabet announced $175-185 billion in 2026 capital expenditure, nearly double 2025 spending. Stock dropped 5% as investors question Big Tech's AI spending sustainability, despite Google Cloud revenue spiking 48%.
P.78Amazon reported quarterly revenue beating estimates but stock dropped 10% after-hours as investors digest the company's $200 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026, driven by aggressive AI infrastructure investment.
P.79Meta Compute, OpenAI's 750MW deal, and a projected $3 trillion investment in AI infrastructure. The biggest story in tech isn't about models—it's about who controls the compute.
P.80Astro for the website, Vercel for deployment, Airtable as CRM, Satori for OG images, a separate content repo with GitHub Actions CI — here's every tool in our stack and the reasoning behind each choice.