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Wiz Research discovered some eyebrow-raising Remote Code Execution flaws in the Ingress NGINX Controller for Kubernetes. These flaws potentially jeopardize 43% of cloud environments, putting 6,500 clusters at risk of unauthorized tampering. Carrying a daunting CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8, these vulnerabilities in Ingress NGINX’s admission controller could lead to a full-blown cluster takeover. Swift patching is essential to fend off exposure to public and pod networks. So, it's not the time to take a coffee break. Get that patch moving!

Meet Microsoft Security Copilot—the evolved AI superhero. It's diving into the chaos of phishing and identity management, juggling a staggering 84 trillion daily signals. In 2024, Microsoft flagged a mind-bending 30 billion phishing emails. That screams for AI intervention. Enter Security Copilot agents, debuting in April 2025. They'll sweep up tedious tasks like a Roomba on a caffeine high. And the new cross-cloud AI security? It might just turn Microsoft Defender into the hottest show in town.

VMware slaps Siemens with a lawsuit over unlicensed software use, setting off a juicy legal drama. Rumors swirl about a 72-core licensing minimum. Small businesses? Less than thrilled. Meanwhile, VMware tightens its product download process. Unique tokens for everyone. Probably their way of dodging future licensing migraines.

Vibe coding—a cheeky term from Dr. Andrej Karpathy—lets LLMs tackle the drudgery, propelling coding's future as manual coding fades into history. By 2025, coding agents are poised to outshine chat-based tools, urging developers to swap their keyboards for AI irony hats. Efficiency gears will shift as these digital minions reshape what productivity looks like. Enter agentic coding, where developers must morph into maestros of managing these digital juggernauts. But beware: this isn't a free ride. It demands cash, lots of it, as budgets groan and sigh. Progress won't just jog forward; it’ll pole-vault, leaving the stubborn ones in the dust.

Forge tools that tackle everyday quirks, yet welcome secret handshakes like function pointers or hooks for the rule-breakers among us. Think custom libraries, but on steroids. Embrace semantic versioning with zeal. Minimize surprise explosions—AKA breaking changes. Flaunt your release notes like casual glamour shots. Let GitHub’s ‘watch’ feature blare updates like a town crier.

The explosion of embedding-based applications created a need for specialized infrastructure for vector operations, giving rise to the vector database category, with companies like Pinecone at the forefront. However, the industry has evolved towards a convergence where traditional search engines are incorporating vector capabilities, recognizing that vector search alone is insufficient for practical, real-world use cases.

Wine might just be Linux's secret weapon. It untangles the compatibility mess by coaxing Windows apps to dance on Linux soil. Think of it as a friendly bridge guiding Windows users over to the wild side.

GitOps puts code in the driver's seat, steering apps and infrastructure straight from Git. Your deployments? They'll be twins with the repo's setup. Here are 15 key factors to consider when adopting GitOps in your teams.

Migrating 40K repos from GitLab to GitHub? Picture a herd of cats. The GHEC tool choked. Suddenly, scripts became the unsung heroes, zapping 100 MB+ files and evicting unwanted tokens. Think retro hacks with a modern twist.

Resource control policies (RCPs) allow you to wrangle AWS access with ease, setting organization-wide guardrails that trim down policy chaos. They work wonders for broad restrictions, but for the nitty-gritty? Stick with resource and identity-based policies.

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Laws, Theories, Principles and Patterns that developers will find useful.

2025 is arming itself with a new title: The Year of Ransomware. Businesses swagger in delusional optimism. Meanwhile, reality sharpens its knives. Dr. Thomas King from DE-CIX has a word of caution: most businesses (82%, no less) downplay packet loss on SaaS. Spoiler alert—they're in for a rude awakening. Time to double down on redundancy or face the digital storm.

AI observability agents could dial down on-call stress. These tireless workers slog through logs all day, every day, even fixing low-risk bugs so humans can catch some sleep. Sure, nagging worries about privacy and LLM cost lurk, but early trials with Xata Agent suggest these costs barely scrape the surface compared to their heavyweight traditional peers. A cost-efficient revolution might just be brewing.

Azure Functions demolish clunky monolithic apps with a serverless advantage. They scale like a dream and deploy with a breeze. Oh, and with Azure Blob Trigger, functions spring to life the moment new data hits. Instant updates ping straight to Slack without breaking a sweat.

Cross-shard joins? Total performance assassins. Instead, unleash strategies like reference table replication or collocation to outsmart needless data shuffle. Stay savvy on those trade-offs!

Nvidia just dropped its 2028 GPU squad, honoring Richard Feynman. Enter the 600kW behemoth with 576 GPUs. Moore's Law? Toast. Yet AI's appetite swells for more muscle, more density. Nvidia leads the pack, but watch out—AMD and Intel might just dog-pile onto this trend and cook up their own dense chip wonders in sprawling datacenters.

Amazon gets clever with AWS Lambda by using shuffle-sharding and consistent hashing. This isn't just tech jargon—it's magic for isolating asynchronous invocations. With these tools, they're boxing out noisy neighbors, smoothing out workloads across a jaw-dropping 4500+ unique queue combos. Collisions? Just about nonexistent.

Forget "Site Reliability Engineering"; try Sociotechnical Reality Engineering on for size. It's the art of navigating the tangled web where software crashes into the chaos of human interactions. SREs aren't babysitters for code; they're the brave souls wrangling glitches on a quest through barcode disasters and forgotten search index escapades.

Dive into uv and make Python scripting a breeze. Jam your dependencies right into the script header. Let uv manage those virtual environments while you kick back. Debugging woes? A relic of the past. Execute your script—no circus act with virtual environments required. Feel the magic.

Blazingly fast code search. Deployed as a single Docker image. Search million+ lines of code in your , GitLab, and Gitea repositories.

Shef is a powerful CLI framework for cooking up advanced shell recipes.

A collection of learning resources for curious software engineers

A transformative log viewer for Kubernetes

Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)

Local development for AWS Lambda's and Terraform

Seamlessly Integrate Any API with AI Agents

Did you know that Shopify runs on a massive monolith written in Ruby on Rails—nicknamed “The Rails Monolith”? While many companies move toward microservices, Shopify doubled down on monolith architecture for core services, arguing it simplifies development, testing, and deployment at scale. To handle its huge global traffic, Shopify supplements the monolith with carefully isolated services written in Go, and uses Kubernetes for orchestration. This hybrid approach lets them handle billions in e-commerce transactions every year—especially during massive spikes like Black Friday.

"It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." ~ The Hofstadter Law