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Google's methodology for conducting large-scale A/B experiments on its core infrastructure, such as operating systems and memory allocators, rather than just on user-facing features. It highlights four key pillars of thi…
At Google Cloud Next '26, the company announced new streaming AI capabilities for its Agentic Data Cloud, designed to provide autonomous agents with real-time context and enable immediate actions. The unified streaming d…
Flathub's infrastructure works, focusing on its CDN and caching layer, which relies on the American company Fastly as a key component. The author notes that while Fastly supports Flathub for free, this dependency raises …
Melbourne is leveraging its expertise in hosting major global events to build a "research flywheel" that combines large-scale AI compute infrastructure, data-intensive research, and international collaboration. A key com…
**Summary:** The article introduces *bunnyx*, an open-source Elixir client library for interacting with the bunny.net CDN API. Developed by the author for use in their uptime monitoring project Larm, the library offers…
The article discusses the growing fragmentation of code forges as users and companies migrate from GitHub to alternatives like Codeberg, Forgejo, and GitLab. It highlights key concerns such as tracking contributions acro…
The Gemini Live Agent Challenge, organized by Google, attracted 11,878 participants from 151 countries who submitted 1,536 projects using the Gemini Live API and Google Cloud tools. The competition featured three categor…
In this "No Dumb Questions" article, Stack Overflow's infrastructure tech lead Josh Zhang explains that cloud computing is essentially using "someone else's computer" to avoid the high costs and complexity of managing ph…
In April 2026, GitHub experienced 10 incidents that caused degraded performance across its services, including a full outage of the code search service on April 1 that lasted over eight hours. The company released a blog…
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins announced record quarterly revenue of $15.8 billion, a 12% year-over-year increase, while simultaneously revealing plans to lay off fewer than 4,000 employees (less than 5% of its workforce). The …
Google announced managed and remote MCP support for its Cloud databases (AlloyDB, Spanner, Cloud SQL, Bigtable, and Firestore) to enable AI agents to interact with customer databases. The company also reimagined Firestor…
Discussion between Google Cloud CISO director Vinod D’Souza and Wiz chief strategy officer Anthony Belfiore at the RSA Conference, highlighting how the partnership between Google and Wiz aims to address evolving cybersec…
The article describes how Cloudflare engineers resolved a performance slowdown in their billing pipeline caused by a hidden bottleneck in ClickHouse after migrating to a new partitioning scheme. The migration aimed to en…
Railway replaced its original Docker-based build system, which relied on a pool of GCP VMs and suffered from egress costs, noisy neighbors, and scaling issues, with a new "Builder v3" system. The new system runs builds i…
Synchronous continuous batching in LLM inference causes inefficiency by forcing the CPU and GPU to work sequentially, leaving one idle while the other operates. This idle time can account for nearly a quarter of total ru…
According to a May 2026 update from Google, the company was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for AI Application Development Platforms, positioned highest in Ability to Execute and ranked #1 across all three u…
Google Cloud has developed a method to significantly accelerate and reduce the cost of LLM-powered SQL functions in databases by using lightweight "proxy models." These proxy models, which are trained on-the-fly and util…
Google AI is being used to build safer and more resilient transportation systems, with a primary focus on achieving "Vision Zero" to reduce fatalities. Key strategies include shifting from reactive to proactive safety me…
The article announces that Browser Run has been rebuilt on Cloudflare's Containers platform, resulting in higher usage limits, faster performance, and improved reliability. Users can now launch 60 browsers per minute and…
At the Android Show, Google announced "Googlebooks," a new category of premium laptops built with Gemini Intelligence to provide personalized, proactive support and agentic capabilities. The company reaffirmed its commit…