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Vercel vs Static Credentials: OIDC Push Comes With a Catch

Vercel wants Marketplace vendors off static credentials and onto OIDC by January 2027, while its own GitHub Actions deploys still need a long-lived token.

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AWS Continuum GA: Code Vulnerabilities Validated, Fixed as PRs

AWS Continuum for code vulnerabilities is GA: it proves which findings are exploitable, ranks them by business impact and opens fix PRs. What to test first.

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Google Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM Per Agent, Plus GKE

Google Agent Compute Engine gives each agent a hardware-isolated microVM, with Agent Substrate for GKE and wider governance. What platform teams should plan.

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Azure DevOps Agentic Autofix Now Fixes Dependency Vulnerabilities

Copilot Autofix for Azure DevOps goes agentic, adding dependency fixes, third-party alerts and EPSS triage. What platform teams should set up first.

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PHP2Shell: Two Critical PHP Flaws Platform Teams Must Patch Now

PHP2Shell covers two 9.2-severity PHP remote code execution flaws found with AI help. Patched versions, what auto-updates on Google Cloud, and what doesn't.

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Amazon ECS Gateway: 25 Services on One ALB, Set Up Once

Amazon ECS Gateway lets platform teams define ingress once and share each ALB across 25 services. How it works, the limits, and when AWS teams should adopt it.

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Kubernetes Autoscaling for AI: Why GPU Pods Stay Pending

Kubernetes autoscaling and the scheduler can disagree on which GPU node works, stranding pods with capacity free. How DRA, Kueue and new APIs close the gap.

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Kubernetes Control Plane Scaling: 3 Limits, Not One Node Count

Kubernetes control plane scaling fails three ways: node count, churn and stored state. Why adding apiservers can backfire, and which seams fix each.

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Air-Gapped Amazon ECR: 5 Decisions to Make Before the First Push

Air-gapped Amazon ECR migrations fail on drift, not scripts. Five decisions, from KMS keys to immutable tags, that repository creation templates lock in.

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n8n on EKS: Why the Helm Chart Switch Needed a Full Cutover

Running n8n on EKS in production means queue mode, Postgres, Redis and S3. Why moving to the official Helm chart forced a full cutover, and how state survived.

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API Gateway WebSocket Failover: Keep Sessions Across Regions

API Gateway WebSocket failover breaks every live connection. AWS's multi-Region pattern restores sessions using a canary, Route 53 and Global Tables.

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DynamoDB Bulk Executor: Lessons From Building Glue Bulk Jobs

DynamoDB Bulk Executor's builders share what broke running bulk jobs on AWS Glue: cost estimates, Live Tail limits, error floods, rate limits. What to copy.

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AWS Lambda Web Functions: 128 Requests per Environment

AWS Lambda Web Functions run Express or Next.js apps unchanged, with 128 concurrent requests per environment and CPU billing. What changes for serverless teams.

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GPU Cost Attribution on Kubernetes: Bill on Memory, Not Compute

GPU cost attribution on Kubernetes breaks once pods share a GPU: DCGM can report 300% use. Why platform teams should split the bill on memory, not compute.

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Google SRE Book Second Edition: What Changed in 10 Years

Google's SRE book second edition is a full rewrite for AI and platform engineering. What changed in SLOs, observability and team models, and who should read it.

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kagent Agent Builder: Three Guardrails a Prompt Can't Replace

A kagent agent builder on Kubernetes turns one sentence into a running AI agent. A CNCF lab shows why allowlists, approval and RBAC, not prompts, keep it safe.

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Cloudflare Buys Deno: Self-Hosted Workers Finally Get a Team

Cloudflare's Deno acquisition ends Deno Deploy and puts Ryan Dahl on self-hosted Workers. What merging workerd and Celld means for lock-in and migration.

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Amazon ECS GPU Auto Repair: How It Replaces Failing GPUs

Amazon ECS Managed Instances now swap out failing NVIDIA GPU hosts automatically. How the DCGM checks, Xid codes, and 20% drain cap shape AWS GPU reliability.

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Decision Model APIs: AWS and Ollama Back System One, Not OpenAI

AWS, Upstage, and Ollama now serve decision models through TypeSafe's System One API. Why a shared schema lets AI agents swap backends by changing a URL.

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GitHub ReviewBench: Copilot Wins Its Own AI Code Review Test

Copilot tops GitHub's ReviewBench but ranks fourth on an independent leaderboard. What that gap means when choosing an AI code reviewer for CI/CD.

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Valkey-Proxy: Percona Targets the Last Redis Migration Blocker

Self-hosted Valkey lacked the proxy managed Redis provides. Percona's open source Valkey-proxy lets platform teams cluster without app rewrites.

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AWS Digital Sovereignty Lens: A Well-Architected Framework for Regulated Cloud Workloads

AWS's Digital Sovereignty Lens adds 21 questions and 37 best practices for data residency, access control, continuity, and auditability on regulated workloads.

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AWS Prime Day 2026: The Infrastructure Numbers Behind Four Days of Peak Commerce

AWS's Prime Day 2026 numbers: 59 trillion DynamoDB requests and 2.3 trillion Lambda invocations a day. What that scale means for platform engineers.

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AWS Bedrock Now Runs OpenAI Managed Agents Natively — What That Actually Means

AWS Bedrock now runs OpenAI Managed Agents natively — GPT-series models under IAM, VPC, and CloudWatch, without routing data through OpenAI's API endpoints.

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One MCP Server Burned 18,000 Tokens Before Your Agent Did Anything. Here's the Fix.

One MCP server burned 9% of a 200K context window at initialization. Pi's Codemode pattern cuts that overhead to under 2% — and applies beyond Pi.

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