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Spiky traffic vs steady state, platform bets vs lock‑in scares—this batch weighs FinOps calls, GitLab’s AI push, CircleCI’s self‑driving CI, and Netflix’s internet‑scale graph. We even jump from GPUs to quantum teleportation on Azure; skim the headlines, then dive into the details below.

💸 A FinOps Guide to Comparing Containers and Serverless Functions for Compute
🧩 A New Terraform Alternative Has Arrived - Platform Engineering Labs Launches formae
🦊 GitLab 18.5 Debuts: Boosted Usability and AI-Powered Features
🕸️ How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph
⚛️ Jump Starting Quantum Computing on Azure
🚨 MinIO Pulls Docker Images and Documentation
🤖 What is autonomous validation? The future of CI/CD in the AI era
⚡ Why GPUs accelerate AI learning

Fewer guesses, more signal - go build.

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GitLab 18.5 Debuts: Boosted Usability and AI-Powered Features

GitLab 18.5 drops with tighter AI integration, a beta peek at the GitLab Duo Agent Platform, and better hooks into cloud secret management. The Security Analyst Agent is gearing up to land on Self-managed and Dedicated setups.

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Jump Starting Quantum Computing on Azure

Microsoft just pulled off full-stack quantum teleportation with Azure Quantum, wiring up Qiskit and Quantinuum’s simulator in the process. Entanglement? Check. Hadamard and CNOT gates set the stage. Classical control logic wrangles the flow. Validation lands cleanly on the backend.

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MinIO Pulls Docker Images and Documentation - Community Calls Move "Malicious" and "Lock-In Strategy"

MinIO quietly pulled the plug on its community docs on Oct 10, 2025. Overnight, everything redirected to AIStor. That move lit up concerns about its loyalty to open-source norms.

Five days later, MinIO pushed out a CVE-related security patch. But no updated container images hit DockerHub or Quay.io. DevOps teams relying on standard workflows? Left in the lurch.

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A New Terraform Alternative Has Arrived - Platform Engineering Labs Launches Formae

Platform Engineering Labs dropped a new project: formae. It's a platform engineering tool aiming to handle multi-agent distribution, pluggable datastores, and cross-cloud infra—with Kubernetes baked in.

There’s more coming. The roadmap reads like they’re out to overhaul how teams build and run platforms from the ground up.

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🔗 Stories, Tutorials & Articles

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What is autonomous validation? The future of CI/CD in the AI era

CircleCI dropped autonomous validation, a smarter CI/CD that thinks on its feet. It scans your code, predicts breakage, runs only the tests that matter - and fixes the easy stuff on its own. If things get messy, it hands off full context so you’re not digging through logs. Bonus: it keeps learning from build history to move faster next time.

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How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph - Ingesting and Processing Data Streams at Internet Scale ^✅

Netflix built a Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG) to connect member interactions across different devices instantly. Using Apache Flink and Kafka, they process up to 1 million messages per second for node and edge updates. Scaling Flink jobs individually reduced operational headaches and allowed for simpler maintenance. Ultimately, the graph architecture enables fast querying for personalized member experiences.

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Why GPUs accelerate AI learning: The power of parallel math

Modern AI eats GPUs for breakfast - training, inference, all of it. Matrix ops? Parallel everything. Models like LLaMA don’t blink without a gang of H100s working overtime.

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A FinOps Guide to Comparing Containers and Serverless Functions for Compute

AWS dropped a new cost-performance playbook pitting Amazon ECS against AWS Lambda. It's not just a tech choice - it’s a workload strategy. Go containers when you’ve got steady traffic, high CPU or memory needs, or sticky app state. Go serverless for spiky, event-driven bursts that don’t need a long leash.

Cost knobs to twist: Graviton2 (cheaper, faster), smarter scheduling, trimmed-down logs, compute savings plans.

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⚙️ Tools, Apps & Software

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some-natalie/kubernoodles

k8s runners for Actions in the enterprise, made for humans

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dafthack/MFASweep

A tool for checking if MFA is enabled on multiple Microsoft Services

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idvoretskyi/aws-s3-cost-explorer

A simple CLI tool to retrieve S3 storage costs and storage tiers for buckets in your AWS account.

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nsiow/yams

yams is a Go library, server, and CLI providing foundational capabilities to simulate access for AWS IAM policies

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OscarAraque/k3s-docker-gpu

K3s Docker GPU project for GPU-accelerated Python workloads in containers. It ships UV, CUDA 12.2, CuPy, NVIDIA GPU support, and K3s deployment with testing and monitoring

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🤔 Did you know?

Did you know that Maglev, the load-balancer used inside Google’s infrastructure, runs entirely on commodity Linux servers - dropping the need for specialized hardware - and has been handling Google’s global front-end traffic since 2008?

😂 Meme of the week

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"We traded change boards for pipelines and got speed with a bigger blast radius; SRE’s job is to price that trade and say no when it isn’t worth it. Cloud makes both cheaper to start and costlier to understand."
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