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Agent Trace, Production ML, Alert Fatigue, Matrix Demo, CNAME Ordering, Moltworker, OpenCode, Java Carrier Classes, Dev Proxy v2.1, Base UI, LinkedIn Service Discovery, Skeleton Architecture, Growing Engineering Orgs

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Developers Can Improve the ESG Aspects of Software By Tackling Early Ethical Debt

Erica Pisani, host of the Performance and Sustainability track at QCon London 2025, reflects on lessons from assembling the track and from attending the talks. She touches on the importance of the environmental and social aspects of software and hints at how developers can improve them through small steps in the architecture and practices of software development. (Podcast)

TOP AI, ML & Data Engineering NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Vercel Introduces Skills.sh, an Open Ecosystem for Agent Commands

  2. Agent Trace: Cursor Proposes an Open Specification for AI Code Attribution

  3. OpenAI Begins Article Series on Codex CLI Internals

  4. Daggr Introduced as an Open-Source Python Library for Inspectable AI Workflows

  5. Open Responses Specification Enables Unified Agentic LLM Workflows

Why Most Machine Learning Projects Fail to Reach Production

In this article, the author diagnoses common failures in ML initiatives, including weak problem framing and the persistent prototype-to-production gap. The piece provides practical, experience-based guidance on setting clear business goals, treating data as a product, and aligning cross-functional teams for reliable, production-ready ML delivery. (Article)

Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems

Sarah Usher discusses the architectural "breaking point" where warehouses like BigQuery struggle with latency and cost. She explains the necessity of a conceptual data lifecycle (Raw, Curated, Use Case) to regain control over lineage and innovation. She shares practical strategies to design a single source of truth that empowers both ML teams and analytics without bottlenecking scale. (Presentation with transcript included)

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TOP DevOps NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Datadog Integrates Google Agent Development Kit into LLM Observability Tools

  2. Etleap Launches Iceberg Pipeline Platform to Simplify Enterprise Adoption of Apache Iceberg

From Alert Fatigue to Agent-Assisted Intelligent Observability

As systems grow, observability becomes harder to maintain and incidents harder to diagnose. Agentic observability layers AI on existing tools, starting in read-only mode to detect anomalies and summarize issues. Over time, agents add context, correlate signals, and automate low-risk tasks. This approach frees engineers to focus on analysis and judgment. (Article)

Cloudflare's Matrix Homeserver Demo Sparks Debate over AI-Generated Code Claims

A Cloudflare blog post claiming a "production-grade" Matrix homeserver on Workers didn't survive community scrutiny. Missing federation, incomplete encryption, and TODO comments in authentication logic pointed to unreviewed AI output. Matrix's Matthew Hodgson welcomed the effort but noted the implementation "doesn't yet constitute a functional Matrix server". (News)

TOP Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. How CNAME Ordering in RFC Specs Caused Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Outage

  2. Google Pushes for gRPC Support in Model Context Protocol

  3. MyTerms: a New IEEE Standard Enabling Online Privacy and Aiming to Replace Cookies

  4. Cloudflare Demonstrates Moltworker, Bringing Self-Hosted AI Agents to the Edge

  5. OpenCode: an Open-source AI Coding Agent Competing with Claude Code and Copilot

Expanding Swift from Apps to Services

Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of Swift from an app language to a critical tool for secure, high-scale services. He explains how Swift’s lack of a garbage collector eliminates tail latency and shares how its "zero-cost abstractions" rival C performance. He shares Apple’s roadmap for incremental adoption and demonstrates groundbreaking new interoperability for C++ and Java ecosystems. (Presentation with transcript included)

TOP Java NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Java News Roundup: Jakarta EE 12, Spring Shell, Open Liberty, Quarkus, Tomcat, JHipster, Gradle

Java Explores Carrier Classes to Extend Data-Oriented Programming beyond Records

The OpenJDK Amber project has published a new design note proposing “carrier classes” and “carrier interfaces” to extend record-style data modeling to more Java types. The proposal preserves concise state descriptions, derived methods, and pattern matching, while relaxing structural constraints that limit records. (News)

Dev Proxy v2.1 Introduces Configuration Hot Reload and Stdio Traffic Proxying

The Dev Proxy team has released Dev Proxy version 2.1, introducing new features aimed at improving developer productivity and simplifying local testing workflows. This release focuses on faster iteration, better support for modern development tools, and several refinements across the proxy and its related tooling. (News)

TOP Web Development NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Astro Announces Version 6 Beta with Redesigned Development Server and First-Class Cloudflare Workers

MUI Releases Base UI 1 with 35 Accessible Components

Base UI 1.0 has officially launched! This unstyled React component library, backed by MUI, offers 35 accessible components with a commitment to long-term maintenance. With refined APIs and enhanced performance, it empowers developers to create custom designs effortlessly while ensuring robust accessibility out of the box. (News)

TOP Architecture & Design NEWS HEADLINES

  1. LinkedIn Leverages GitHub Actions, CodeQL, and Semgrep for Code Scanning

  2. LinkedIn Re-Architects Service Discovery: Replacing Zookeeper with Kafka and xDS at Scale

  3. GitHub Reworks Layered Defenses after Legacy Protections Block Legitimate Traffic

  4. Airbnb Expands Global Checkout with "Pay as a Local", Scaling to 220 Markets in 14 Months

Working with Code Assistants: The Skeleton Architecture

Prevent AI-generated tech debt with Skeleton Architecture. This approach separates human-governed infrastructure (Skeleton) from AI-generated logic (Tissue) using Vertical Slices and Dependency Inversion. By enforcing security and flow control in rigid base classes, you constrain the AI to safe boundaries, enabling high velocity without compromising system integrity. (Article)

TOP Culture & Methods NEWS HEADLINES

  1. Getting Feedback from Test-Driven Development and Testing in Production

Scaling to 100+ as a Director: Lessons From Growing Engineering Organizations

Thiago Ghisi discusses the strategic evolution required to lead 100+ engineers without breaking the organization. He explains his "Three Levels of Impact" framework and shares practical lessons on speeding up decision-making, cultivating leadership teams, and building organizational resilience. Learn why he views reorgs as a continuous deployment feature rather than a one-time traumatic event. (Presentation with transcript included)

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