AWS DevOps Agent helps you accelerate incident response and improve system reliability (preview) (7 minute read)
AWS DevOps Agent has been released in public preview, offering an AI agent that automates incident response, identifies root causes, and suggests preventative measures. By connecting to tools like Amazon CloudWatch, Datadog, and GitHub, the agent correlates data to reduce resolution times and can be configured to automatically respond to incidents from ticketing systems like ServiceNow and PagerDuty. Currently, AWS DevOps Agent is available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region at no charge during the preview period, with a limit on monthly agent task hours.
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Django 6.0 released (3 minute read)
Django 6.0 has major new features, including template partials, built-in background tasks, improved security via CSP, and a modernized email API. Support for older versions is ending soon. Users on Django 5.1 or 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade.
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Get better visibility for the WAF with payload logging (7 minute read)
Cloudflare's WAF now offers improved payload logging, capturing only the specific request fields that triggered a rule, reducing log size by 67% and clarifying matches. This enhances debugging, fine-tuning, and visibility into managed rule actions. Future expansion to other WAF products has been planned.
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Defending Against L7 DDoS and Web Bots with Tempesta FW (16 minute read)
Tempesta FW 0.8 features a high-performance open-source foundation for analyzing data and fighting bot attacks. The upcoming 0.9 release will include a toolset for detecting and blocking L7 DDoS attacks. Tempesta WebShield builds on this by offering a flexible toolkit to defend against diverse classes of web bots, effectively blocking malicious traffic by analyzing Tempesta FW access logs in ClickHouse and classifying traffic. Tempesta Fingerprints (TF) were designed as a lightweight client-fingerprinting mechanism with a fixed structure in the binary hash format at the TLS (tft) and HTTP (tfh) layers to cluster clients efficiently for machine-learning classification.
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Why I Ignore The Spotlight as a Staff Engineer (8 minute read)
Focusing on long-term stewardship of core infrastructure systems creates compounding technical impact, trust, and career advancement. Deep ownership in developer tooling can deliver durable value without relying on high-visibility projects or executive attention.
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Valdi (GitHub Repo)
Valdi, a cross-platform UI framework used in Snap's production apps for the last 8 years, has been released in beta. The framework compiles declarative TypeScript components into platform-native views for iOS, Android, and macOS.
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Yaak (GitHub Repo)
Yaak is a fast, lightweight, and privacy-focused API client built with Tauri, Rust, and React for managing REST, GraphQL, SSE, WebSocket, and gRPC.
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Scalable, Multi-language Service Discovery at LinkedIn (8 minute read)
LinkedIn has rolled out Next-Gen Service Discovery, which replaces its decade-old Zookeeper-based system with a Kafka and xDS-powered architecture. Achieving near real-time data propagation and horizontal scalability, the new system supports hundreds of thousands of app instances with a data propagation latency of P50 < 1s and P99 < 5s, addressing the scalability and compatibility issues of the previous system. The upgrade enables multi-language compatibility, service mesh integration, and cross-fabric resiliency for LinkedIn's infrastructure.
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