Opening the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (33 minute read)
AWS has made its European Sovereign Cloud generally available, with its first region located in Brandenburg, Germany. Designed for European public sector organizations and regulated industries, this new infrastructure provides enhanced digital sovereignty through strict data residency and operational controls managed exclusively by EU residents.
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What we know about Iran's Internet shutdown (5 minute read)
Internet traffic from Iran dropped to effectively zero on January 8 amid widespread protests, following a 98.5% decline in IPv6 address space and a 90% fall in overall traffic from major providers. As of January 10, the country remained almost entirely cut off from the global internet, mirroring past government tactics during periods of unrest.
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Why Senior Engineers Let Bad Projects Fail (9 minute read)
Senior engineers often let bad projects fail because influence is limited: being right isn't the same as being effective, and constant pushback burns credibility and political capital. The key skill is spending influence strategically—speaking up only when the blast radius is high, your expertise is strong, and the cost of silence outweighs the cost of intervention.
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Oh My Opencode (GitHub Repo)
Sisyphus is a "batteries-included" agent harness designed to significantly boost coding productivity with LLMs like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini. It enables sophisticated multi-agent workflows and deep code exploration.
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Ralph (GitHub Repo)
Ralph, an autonomous AI agent loop, is a system designed to repeatedly execute tasks until all Product Requirements Document (PRD) items are complete. It operates by spawning fresh Amp instances for each iteration, with memory persisted via git history, progress.txt, and prd.json, and updates AGENTS.md with learnings to enhance future development.
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BadPods Series: Everything Allowed on AWS EKS (10 minute read)
An AWS EKS experiment using BishopFox BadPods showed that a fully permissive pod configuration enables container escape, lateral movement, and theft of IAM credentials, leading to complete Kubernetes node and AWS account compromise under default EKS security settings.
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Adapting the Facebook Reels RecSys AI Model Based on User Feedback (4 minute read)
Facebook Reels significantly improved its video recommendation system, leading to enhanced user retention metrics. This was achieved by implementing a new "interest matching" approach that integrated large-scale user surveys to directly gauge content relevance, boosting high-interest videos after previous methods only achieved 48.3% precision.
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