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September 3, 11:09 am

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News & Trends

Now Open β€” AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region (6 minute read)

AWS has announced the general availability of the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region, which features three Availability Zones and the API name ap-southeast-6. The new AWS Region represents a NZD $7.5 billion investment and is expected to contribute NZD $10.8 billion to New Zealand's GDP while creating 1,000 new jobs annually. Organizations like MATTR, Kiwibank, Deloitte, and Thematic are already planning to leverage the new region for benefits ranging from data residency to AI innovation.
Kubernetes v1.34: DRA has graduated to GA (4 minute read)

Kubernetes 1.34 introduces significant enhancements for Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA), with core APIs in the resource.k8s.io group now generally available. The update enables default DRA features, promotes admin access labeling and prioritized lists to beta, and introduces alpha features such as extended resource mapping, consumable capacity, binding conditions, and resource health status. Kubernetes users and developers can confidently adopt DRA, with expectations of steady feature additions without breaking changes in future releases.
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Opinions & Tutorials

The crawl-to-click gap: Cloudflare data on AI bots, training, and referrals (9 minute read)

Generative AI is reshaping internet traffic as AI crawlers now account for most web consumption, with training driving nearly 80% of AI bot activity while referrals to publishers decline sharply. Googlebot remains the largest crawler overall, but AI-focused bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Meta's agent surged in 2025 as Google referrals to news sites fell 9–15% compared with early in the year.
Bitnami Ends Free, Stable Images β€” Users Forced to Migrate or Pay (4 minute read)

Bitnami is shutting down its long-standing free Docker Hub repository and moving all existing images to an unsupported Legacy repo, while only offering limited β€œlatest” free images under a new namespace. Developers who need stable versions or enterprise-grade support must purchase a costly Bitnami Secure Images subscription, forcing many smaller users to migrate away or face broken deployments.
Python has had async for 10 years -- why isn't it more popular? (10 minute read)

Python added async/await in 2015, but adoption has lagged because its benefits are mostly limited to network I/O, while file and CPU-bound tasks remain blocked by the GIL and require awkward workarounds. Maintaining parallel sync/async APIs is also burdensome. With Python 3.14 introducing free-threading and multiple interpreters, broader concurrency and parallelism may finally become practical beyond web servers.
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opcode (GitHub Repo)

opcode, a GUI app and toolkit built with Tauri 2, aims to enhance interaction with Claude Code by managing sessions, creating custom agents, and tracking usage.
Coze Studio (GitHub Repo)

Coze Studio is an all-in-one AI agent development tool derived from the Coze Development Platform. It has open-sourced its core engine, offering a visual, low-code environment for creating, debugging, and deploying AI agents. The platform was built using Golang, React, and TypeScript with a microservices architecture.
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Miscellaneous

Salesloft Drift Data Breach: Update to Our Customers (1 minute read)

PagerDuty reported that attackers obtained its credentials from the Salesloft Drift breach and may have accessed Salesforce data, prompting the company to disable Drift's access while investigating. Customers are advised to remain vigilant against phishing and social engineering due to possible exposure of names, phone numbers, and email addresses.
How GitHub Models can help open source maintainers focus on what matters (5 minute read)

GitHub Models helps open source maintainers save time by automating tasks like issue triage, duplicate detection, spam filtering, backlog cleanup, and contributor onboarding directly within their workflows. By combining GitHub Models with GitHub Actions, maintainers can set up Continuous AI processes that reduce repetitive work, keep projects organized, and improve contributor experiences.
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Amazon S3 improves AWS CloudFormation and AWS CDK support for S3 Tables (2 minute read)

AWS has added CloudFormation and CDK support for creating tables and namespaces in S3 Tables, making it easier to manage resources with infrastructure as code.
Orchestrating Java Spring Boot applications with Nomad (6 minute read)

HashiCorp Nomad can orchestrate Java Spring Boot applications alongside container-native workloads on the same unified platform.
Precise Resource Replacement with Pulumi State Taint (1 minute read)

Pulumi CLI v3.192.0 introduced `pulumi state taint` and `pulumi state untaint` commands to mark resources for replacement, which is especially valuable when state access is available but cloud permissions are restricted.

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