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January 19, 12:26 pm

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News & Trends

Amazon EC2 X8i instances powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors are generally available for memory-intensive workloads (3 minute read)

AWS has announced the general availability of its new memory-optimized Amazon EC2 X8i instances, powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors that offer the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth in the cloud. Designed for demanding workloads like SAP HANA, these instances provide up to 6 TB of memory capacity and 43% higher performance than previous X2i instances, enabling faster processing and potential cost reductions.
Astro is joining Cloudflare (6 minute read)

Cloudflare has acquired The Astro Technology Company, creators of the Astro web framework. All Astro employees will join Cloudflare to continue developing the open-source platform. The popular framework, used by brands like Porsche and IKEA for fast, content-driven websites, is set to release Astro 6, which features a redesigned development server and stable Live Content Collections.
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Opinions & Tutorials

Introducing Spacelift Plugins: Extensibility Meets Infrastructure as Code (6 minute read)

Spacelift Plugins is an open-source, extensible way to natively integrate security, cost, compliance, secrets, and custom tools into infrastructure workflows. It reduces CI/CD complexity while standardizing and scaling DevOps pipelines with community and custom integrations.
Private AI Coding: OpenCode + Model Runner (6 minute read)

By combining OpenCode, an open-source coding assistant, with Docker Model Runner, developers can achieve a privacy-first and cost-aware AI-assisted development experience, keeping all model inference within their controlled infrastructure. This setup allows teams to run large language models locally via an OpenAI-compatible API. It offers significant cost advantages and customization options for models and context windows.
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Resources & Tools

MiroThinker (GitHub Repo)

MiroThinker, a new open-source deep research agent, has achieved a 60.2% Avg@8 score on the challenging GAIA benchmark. The agent uses interactive scaling to enhance performance. Its v1.5 iteration is the world-leading open-source search agent, notably securing 69.8% on BrowseComp and 71.5% on BrowseComp-ZH.
Gas Town (GitHub Repo)

Gas Town, a multi-agent workspace manager, is a system for coordinating multiple Claude Code agents. It features persistent work tracking via git-backed hooks, which store work state as structured data and ensure agents maintain context across tasks and restarts.
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Miscellaneous

Context Engineering Lessons from Building Azure SRE Agent (8 minute read)

An Azure team improved an Azure SRE agent by collapsing many narrow tools and specialized sub-agents into a few wide tools and generalists. They discovered that disciplined context engineering, not model upgrades or orchestration complexity, was the primary driver of production reliability.
More HTTP/3 Focus, One Backend Less (2 minute read)

curl is removing support for the OpenSSL-QUIC backend and will now support only two HTTP/3 options: ngtcp2 + nghttp3 (primary) and quiche (still experimental), starting with curl 8.19.0. The OpenSSL-QUIC backend never left experimental due to a weak API, significantly worse performance, and dramatically higher memory usage compared to ngtcp2.
Why We've Tried To Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969 (7 minute read)

For over 50 years, each wave of “developer-replacing” technology—from COBOL and CASE tools to low-code and AI—has promised to simplify software creation but failed because it can't eliminate the underlying complexity of reasoning through edge cases, tradeoffs, and systems behavior. New tools consistently increase leverage and productivity, but software development remains fundamentally an intellectual problem, not a mechanical one, so developers are augmented rather than replaced.

Quick Links

Mobile Dev Trends: Cross‑Platform Adoption, Rising Flakiness and How to Improve (Sponsor)

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The Glass Box AI SRE (2 minute read)

Incident response requires glass-box AI SREs that expose step-by-step reasoning, evidence, and confidence instead of opaque conclusions.
Datadog integrations 2025 recap: Observability for AI, security, and hybrid cloud (7 minute read)

Datadog expanded over 1,000 integrations in 2025, enhancing AI observability, security monitoring, hybrid cloud visibility, and analytics performance.
Introducing the new and improved ESC Editor (2 minute read)

Pulumi's new and improved ESC Web Editor is a centralized solution designed to make managing cloud infrastructure secrets and configuration easier and more intuitive.

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