Cloudflare Adds Support for Claude Managed Agents

Cloudflare recently added support for Claude Managed Agents, allowing developers to run and manage Claude agents within Cloudflare. Developers can connect agents to private systems, choose their runti...

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AWS Improves Aurora Serverless: 45% Faster Ramp-Up, 30% Higher Throughput

AWS has recently announced that WorkMail will be discontinued and that App Runner will stop accepting new customers and move into maintenance mode. Several other less popular services and features are...

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MySQL 9.7: First Major LTS Since 8.4 Brings Enterprise Features to Community Edition

Oracle has announced the general availability of MySQL 9.7.0, marking the start of a new 9.7 LTS release series and the first major one since MySQL 8.4. The release arrives amid community concerns abo...

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AWS Ends WorkMail and Moves App Runner to Maintenance Mode

AWS has recently announced that WorkMail will be discontinued and that App Runner will stop accepting new customers and move into maintenance mode. Several other less popular services and features are...

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Cloudflare Optimizes Edge Stack for High-Core CPUs Instead of Large Cache

Cloudflare recently introduced its Gen 13 servers, marking a shift in how its network handles traffic. Instead of relying on large CPU caches for speed, the company redesigned its software to leverage...

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AWS Announces General Availability of DevOps Agent for Automated Incident Investigation

AWS has announced the general availability of DevOps Agent, a generative AI–powered assistant designed to help developers and operators troubleshoot issues, analyze deployments, and automate operation...

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AWS Introduces S3 Files, Bringing File System Access to S3 Buckets

AWS recently introduced S3 Files, which lets users mount an Amazon S3 bucket and access its data through a standard file system interface. Applications can read and write files using standard file ope...

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Cloudflare Introduces EmDash: TypeScript CMS Positioned as WordPress Successor

Cloudflare recently announced the preview of EmDash, a new open-source CMS it describes as a “spiritual successor to WordPress.” Designed to rebuild the CMS model around a serverless, developer-focuse...

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Etsy Migrates 1000-Shard, 425 TB MySQL Sharding Architecture to Vitess

The Etsy engineering team recently described how the company migrated its long-running MySQL sharding infrastructure to Vitess. The transition moved shard routing from Etsy’s internal systems to Vites...

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AWS Expands Aurora DSQL with Playground, New Tool Integrations, and Driver Connectors

Amazon has announced several updates for Aurora DSQL, focusing on usability, integrations, and developer tooling. The improvements include a new interactive Aurora DSQL Playground that lets developers...

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Cloudflare Introduces Support for ASPA, an Emerging Internet Routing Security Standard

Cloudflare recently announced support for ASPA (Autonomous System Provider Authorization). The new cryptographic standard helps make Internet routing safer by verifying the path data takes across netw...

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AWS Introduces Nested Virtualization on EC2 Instances

AWS recently announced support for nested virtual machines within virtualized EC2 instances running KVM or Hyper-V. A long-awaited feature by the community, the new option enables use cases such as ap...

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MySQL 9.6 Changes Foreign Key Constraints and Cascade Handling

MySQL is changing the way foreign key constraints and cascades are managed. Starting with MySQL 9.6, foreign key validation and cascade actions are handled by the SQL layer rather than the InnoDB stor...

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AWS Drops Patent Infringement Protection for Video Encoding Services

AWS has removed its legal protections for customers using its video transcoding and streaming services, potentially exposing them to patent infringement claims from codec rights holders. The change af...

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Databricks Introduces Lakebase, a PostgreSQL Database for AI Workloads

Databricks has recently announced the general availability of Lakebase, a serverless, PostgreSQL-based OLTP database that scales compute and storage independently. Lakebase is designed to integrate wi...

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Cloudflare Introduces Local Uploads for R2 to Cut Cross-Region Write Latency by 75%

Cloudflare has recently introduced Local Uploads for R2 in open beta. The new feature optimizes write performance for globally distributed users without changing bucket location, reducing cross-region...

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LocalStack for AWS Drops Community Edition Raising Developer Concerns

LocalStack has recently announced changes to the delivery of its AWS Cloud emulators, dropping the popular open source Community Edition, and creating a single image that requires registration. Projec...

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From Paging to Postmortem: Google Cloud SREs on Using Gemini CLI for Outage Response

A recent article by Google Cloud SREs describes how they use the AI-powered Gemini CLI internally to resolve real-world outages. This approach improves reliability in critical infrastructure operation...

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Two Missing Characters: How a Regex Flaw Exposed AWS GitHub Repos to Supply-Chain Risk

AWS recently published a security bulletin acknowledging a configuration issue affecting some popular AWS-managed open-source GitHub repositories. Dubbed CodeBreach, the critical vulnerability could h...

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Expired Oracle Patent Opens Fast Sorting Algorithm to Open Source Databases

A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows h...

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Cloudflare Introduces Aggregations in R2 SQL for Data Analytics

Cloudflare recently announced support for aggregations in R2 SQL, a new feature that lets developers run SQL queries on data stored in R2. This enhancement expands R2 SQL beyond basic filtering and ma...

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MongoBleed Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Read Data from MongoDB's Heap Memory

MongoDB recently patched CVE-2025-14847, a vulnerability affecting multiple supported and legacy MongoDB Server versions. According to the disclosure, the flaw can be exploited remotely by unauthentic...

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AWS Introduces VPC Encryption Controls to Enforce Encryption in Transit

AWS has recently introduced VPC Encryption Controls, allowing customers to validate whether traffic within and between VPCs is encrypted and to require encryption where supported. The feature provides...

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AWS CodeCommit Returns to General Availability After Backlash

AWS recently announced that the managed source control service AWS CodeCommit is again generally available and that new features, including Git Large File Storage, will be added early in 2026. This ma...

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MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base

A recent report has analyzed the repository statistics of the MySQL server to evaluate the project's status, Oracle's commitment to MySQL, and the future of the community edition. Julia Vural, softwar...

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AWS Introduces EC2 Instance Attestation

AWS has introduced EC2 instance attestation, a new security feature that enables customers to verify that their virtual machines are running approved software configurations in a cryptographically sec...

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PlanetScale Extends Database Platform to PostgreSQL

PlanetScale has announced the general availability of its managed sharded Postgres service, built for performance and reliability on AWS or Google Cloud. The launch extends PlanetScale's offerings to ...

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Cloudflare Adds Node.js HTTP Servers to Cloudflare Workers

Cloudflare recently implemented the node:http client and server APIs in Cloudflare Workers, allowing developers to migrate existing Node.js applications to the serverless computing platform. These HTT...

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