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Some companies are fleeing the cloud. Others are doubling down on AI. Meanwhile, Linux is quietly pruning its roots, and Ubuntu is flirting with Rust. This week’s batch has it all—cost-cutting rebellions, memory-safe revolutions, and a rogue distro with Microsoft DNA 👀

 

🖥️ 37signals drops AWS to save millions with on-prem gear
🦀 Ubuntu embraces Rust: sudo-rs becomes default in 25.10
🧙‍♂️ AnduinOS is real—a Windows-style Linux made by a Microsoft dev
🪓 Linux cuts support for ancient 486 and Pentium chips
🤖 Dagger introduces LLM agents for your software factory
📉 Broadcom to VMware users: Pay up or lawyer up
⚡ Terraform caching boosted with OverlayFS tricks
💸 Hidden egress fees could be draining your cloud budget
📦 Kafka reimagined with a new stream-centric architecture
🔐 Redis 8 goes AGPLv3 and speeds up commands by 87%

 

The cloud giveth, the cloud taketh. Choose your tools—and your bills—wisely.

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Dagger just cranked its engine into overdrive with native LLM integration. Now, AI agents can rev through your CI/CD workflows, automating tasks like code reviews with impressive flair. The new configuration lets LLMs jive with programmable building blocks in your code, all securely sandboxed. Consider the boundaries of AI-driven software delivery officially pushed.

37signals plans to chop its cloud bill from a hefty $3.2M to under $1M a year by dumping AWS for its own gear, with some help from swift Dell and Pure Storage systems. Oh, and AWS tossed in a $250K fee waiver to nudge that transition along.

Broadcom is upending the game. After its VMware acquisition, they slashed perpetual licenses and cranked up subscription costs by a staggering 300%. To top it off, they're firing off cease-and-desist letters to folks who’ve sworn off VMware. It’s like breaking up but still getting texts from your ex—awkward and infuriating.

Linux 6.15 finally ditches the prehistoric 486 processors and those clunky first-gen Pentiums. Torvalds and Molnár wielded the axe, banishing 14,000 lines of fossilized code from the kernel. Their verdict? It's about time. Besides, who keeps a museum in their machine except the most die-hard hobbyists?

Meet Ubuntu 25.10’s new sidekick: sudo-rs. This Rust-powered, memory-safe twist on sudo amps up security and simplifies upkeep. It embraces the mantra "less is more" by tossing unnecessary sudo features overboard. Canonical’s strategy—security without the bloat—aims for the long game.

AnduinOS 1.3—think Windows 11's suave looks, minus the corporate strings. It’s the brainchild of a rogue Microsoft engineer who finds beauty in simplicity, spinning Ubuntu basics into gold. Open source to the core, it waves away all those pesky backdoor worries. As Win10 fades into obsolescence, AnduinOS struts in, ready to give old machines a refreshing Windows-like revival without the red tape.

OpenAI's callback plugin for Ansible does more than just decode playbook tasks. It spits out handy tips for improvement. Just beware of letting it run wild, or your system might throw a party and break the bank.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is like that cool tool you didn't know you needed. It's a nimble bridge between LLM models and developer tools, though someday it might just become the backbone of future libraries—nothing fancy, just fundamental. Enter FastMCP, the under-the-radar hero. Fire it up, and it conjures up a dead-simple server spitting out "ABRACADABRA." It's nifty, it's straightforward, and it gets local dev connections chatting in no time.

Talos kicked k3s to the curb, quenching that nagging itch for declarative order that Nix left behind. For traffic control, Contour swooped in, bringing sanity to my DNS maze and giving Nginx the boot. VictoriaMetrics outpaced Prometheus, delivering speed and thrift. It even does remote monitoring like a pro, keeping disasters at bay.

Databases dance between block and file-level access. They cleverly use memory like a magician with a hidden pocket, smoothing over sluggish disk interactions. Logs? They’re the secret sauce for slick crash recovery. Concurrency control in the mad circus of transactions? Locks. They're the backstage crew, keeping chaos at bay with serializability—a crucial pillar for any database worth its salt.

Inflectra's AI-driven DevOps tools, like Spira, hack away at development time by 50% and ramp up test coverage by 40%. This reshapes cloud workflows like magic. Spira's agile ALM solutions let industries migrate with ease, ensuring compliance stays tight as a drum while AI injects productivity with jet fuel.

JFrog’s leap to AWS Graviton unleashed some wizardry: slashing compute costs by 20%, slicing CPU usage by another 20%, and shaving network latency by 10%. But here’s the kicker—carbon footprint plummeted by 60%. That’s efficiency with an eco-twist. They juggled feature flags and multi-architecture support like pros during the switch, flexing their serious ops muscles.

Discord's revamped search engine leans on **Kubernetes and the Elastic Kubernetes Operator to shake up its query structure. No more lumbering clusters. They’ve split them into smaller, sprightlier versions. With this new trick, Discord can spy on your DMs without breaking a sweat, thanks to savvy sharding per user instead of the old channel method.

Terraform stepped into a fintech frenzy and wrangled that infrastructure beast into submission. With its wizardry, the once-chaotic tax gateway evolved into a slick IaC setup. As changes came in hot and fast, the system scaled gracefully instead of exploding into chaos. Terraform sidestepped those third-party shackles and let custom scripts play the hero's role—flexible, nimble, and entirely their own.

Toss those partitions. Instead, pivot to key-centric streams—perfect for fine-tuned consumer management. Say goodbye to head-of-line blocking. Lean into topic hierarchies for slick, pattern-based subscriptions. Want to avoid outdated headaches? Tackle that with concurrency control. Broker-side schema support amps up interoperability, letting systems chat without misunderstandings. Extensibility? It's your toolkit for customization on the fly. Hook up synchronous commit callbacks for those lightning-fast data view updates. And don’t miss out on snapshotting—it keeps your compactions tidy and efficient. All this magic, with multi-tenancy playing nice in the sandbox.

Ansible slashes through the tangled mess of system admin tasks on Windows and Linux without needing agents, keeping things tidy and consistent. Just don't count on it to break any speed records. Its YAML-based DSL and an extensive library of plugins give it some flair, but when it comes to full-scale infrastructure automation, tools like Terraform or Packer sing a different, more powerful tune.

Terraform's plugin cache chokes when confronted with concurrent runs. Picture a traffic jam at rush hour—it ain't pretty. Enter OverlayFS, the urban planner for your code. It tricks each simultaneous Terraform init into believing it's hogging the same plugin cache. Then, with finesse, it syncs everything back to the central cache. The result? Workflows that zip along, like they’re surfing on espresso.

Redis 8: Now Dual-Licensed Under AGPL—And Commands Just Got 87% Faster. This move seeks to harmonize core and stack features, echoing Salvatore’s triumphant return.

Cloud bills can bloat to a ridiculous 40+ pages. Hidden egress fees lurk in the fine print. No wonder 56% of IT pros think they're too much. But here's a thought—swap over to cheaper providers and watch profits swell by at least 4.8%. Cha-ching!

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Sanctum is a small, reviewable, capable, pq-safe and fully privilege seperated VPN daemon.

A web-based administration tool for Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), built with Next.js.

A collection of production-ready Generative AI Agent templates built for Google Cloud. It accelerates development by providing a holistic, production-ready solution, addressing common challenges (Deployment & Operations, Evaluation, Customization, Observability) in building and deploying GenAI agents.

Map visualization and firewall for AWS activity, inspired by Little Snitch for macOS.

The modern API client that lives in your terminal.

An open agentic framework that uses computers like a human

Know Your Enemies - Check external access on your AWS account

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Did you know that Trello, the popular task management tool, is built using MongoDB, Node.js, and WebSockets to enable real-time collaboration? Every time you move a card or update a board, those changes are instantly reflected for all users connected to that board—without refreshing. Trello achieves this using WebSockets to maintain smooth live connections between clients and servers even with millions of users.

If you can get today’s work done today, but you do it in such a way that you can’t possibly get tomorrow’s work done tomorrow, then you lose. ― Martin Fowler, Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code