Red Hat Expands Collaboration with NVIDIA (4 minute read)
Red Hat expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to deliver Day 0 support for the NVIDIA Rubin platform across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenShift, and Red Hat AI. The partnership targets rack-scale enterprise AI with optimized performance, security, and hybrid cloud consistency.
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Introducing Apache Spark® 4.1 (6 minute read)
Apache Spark 4.1 introduces Spark Declarative Pipelines (SDP) for a declarative data engineering approach, and enables Real-Time Mode in Structured Streaming to achieve single-digit millisecond latencies for stateless workloads. The update also delivers GA support for SQL Scripting, expands PySpark capabilities with Arrow integration, and enhances Spark Connect for machine learning.
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Kubernetes v1.35: A Better Way to Pass Service Account Tokens to CSI Drivers (4 minute read)
Kubernetes v1.35 introduces a beta opt-in solution for CSI drivers, enabling them to securely receive service account tokens through the `secrets` field in `NodePublishVolumeRequest` instead of the less secure `volume_context`. This addresses past logging vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2023-2878, by providing a safer, more consistent method for handling sensitive data.
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Why we're leaving serverless (5 minute read)
Unkey migrated from Cloudflare Workers to stateful Go servers, achieving 6x lower latency by eliminating external cache network requests and simplifying architecture from complex distributed pipelines to straightforward in-memory batching. The move enabled self-hosting and platform independence, improved developer experience, and reduced operational complexity.
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Software craftsmanship is dead (3 minute read)
Modern software development prioritizes rapid feature delivery and short-term impact metrics over long-term code quality and maintainability. Incentive structures, Agile backlog pressure, low deployment risk, and a lack of emphasis on craftsmanship have collectively contributed to declining code quality across organizations.
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Next AI Draw.io (GitHub Repo)
Next AI Draw.io is an AI-powered Next.js web application that enables users to create, modify, and enhance draw.io diagrams using natural language commands and AI-assisted visualization. This tool supports various diagram types and recommends powerful models like Claude Sonnet 4.5 for optimal performance.
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OpenSpec (GitHub Repo)
OpenSpec is a spec-driven development (SDD) framework for AI coding assistants that aims to align humans and AI by locking intent with a lightweight specification workflow before any code is written. The system provides deterministic, reviewable outputs, addressing the unpredictability of AI when requirements are confined to chat history.
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Improve service reliability and ops culture with Grafana Cloud Service Center (7 minute read)
Grafana Cloud's Service Center provides a unified hub for monitoring service reliability, performance trends, incidents, SLOs, alerts, and on-call rotations to prevent engineer burnout and improve operational culture. The feature centralizes scattered data into service pages that help teams make data-driven decisions about reliability improvements and workload balancing.
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PostgreSQL 18 RETURNING Enhancements: A Game Changer for Modern Applications (7 minute read)
PostgreSQL 18 significantly enhances the RETURNING clause by introducing OLD and NEW aliases across INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, and MERGE, enabling developers to access before-and-after row values in a single atomic statement. This removes the need for triggers or extra queries, simplifies change tracking and auditing, and makes MERGE-based upserts far more powerful and maintainable.
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A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela (9 minute read)
A routing leak in Venezuela on January 2, involving AS8048 (CANTV), was noted by a cybersecurity newsletter amid news of Nicolás Maduro's capture, initially suggesting potential malfeasance. However, Cloudflare Radar data showed eleven similar, likely accidental, Type 1 hairpin route leaks by CANTV since early December, indicating the issue stemmed from insufficient routing export and import policies rather than malicious intent.
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