Introduction At Grab, we’ve been exploring ways to dramatically reduce container startup times for our data platforms. Large container images for services like Airflow and Spark Connect were taking minutes to download, causing slow cold starts and poor auto-scaling performance. This blog post shares...

We are releasing Agent Skills for Postgres Best Practices to help AI coding agents write high quality, correct Postgres code.

When you work on B2B SaaS apps used by large customer organizations, synchronizing those customers’ users within your software system is tricky! You must synchronize user profile information and the user attributes required for access control management. Customers with large workforces may have thou...

Here's how to install picom 12 on Ubuntu 12 from source.Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't have a picom 12 package in apt. It's stuck on picom 10. Upgrade to Ubuntu 25, or build from source.picom 12 is cool because you have animations built in now.Let's build from source.Install prereqsThere are a few. Check em o...

Author: Andrey Sitnik, Author of PostCSS and Autoprefixer, Principal Frontend EngineerTopic: CSSPrefer SVG over PNG, trust browsers to downscale, drop obscure formats—the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for modern web. Includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.It's time to rethink how we coo...

Growing platform - Growing maintenance Keeping the Lights On (KTLO) is an essential, yet often taxing, part of a platform engineer’s role. It represents the routine operational work required to keep the business running and the platform stable. For our team, this primarily involves maintenance on ou...

A VP of Engineering (from a company I’m not allowed to name) told me recently: "You helped us find and fix real user-facing issues. Now we need to convince our ...

Time flies! Six months have passed since our last crates.io development update, so it's time for another one. Here's a summary of the most notable changes and improvements made to crates.io over the past six months. Security Tab Crate pages now have a new "Security" tab that displays security adviso...

AWS introduces Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by the NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs with up to 2.3 times inference performance. G7e instances deliver cost-effective performance for generative AI inference workloads and the highest performance for graphics workloads.

“Neon was so easy to get started, and it worked flawlessly with TanStack Start and TanStack Query. When you start a new project with TanStack Start and select Neon in the CLI, you get a working database instantly and later you can go claim it, which is one of the coolest things I’ve seen” (Tanner […...

When it comes to Python package managers, the choice often comes down to uv vs pip. You may choose pip for out-of-the-box availability, broad compatibility, and reliable ecosystem support. In contrast, uv is worth considering if you prioritize fast installs, reproducible environments, and clean unin...

Pawel Chrzaszcz highlights how MongooseIM 6.5 simplifies integration with a production-ready RabbitMQ event pusher. The post MongooseIM 6.5: Open for Integration appeared first on Erlang Solutions.

To prepare for the talk I'll be giving to the TestGuild in a few months, since I can't share actual source code of the SELF Mobile app or the automation source code I've written on-the-job, I created a toy project, Detox Demo at https://github.com/tjmaher/detox-demo, a React Native app tested with W...

In my time as a developer, I have noticed that one of the most common ways my coworkers spend time coding outside of work is by developing little code snippets or apps that solve problems in their everyday lives. From household budgeting, to managing workouts on rowing machines, to generating a Taco...

Ryan welcomes Prakash Chandran, CEO and co-founder of Xano, to the show to discuss the intricate relationship between frontend and backend development, the potential challenges that universal frontend interfaces pose for developers, and the importance of understanding both your frontend and your bac...

At the end of 2025 I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere provides. I’m back and writing my first post in 2026 which also happens to be my last post for the AWS News Blog (more on this later). The AWS community is starting the […]

AI agents are quickly becoming part of everyday enterprise development. They summarize emails, coordinate calendars, query internal systems, and automate workflows across tools. But once an AI agent needs to access an enterprise application on behalf of a user, things get complicated. How do you sec...

Twitter's descent into a gutter of the lowest order has been wrenching: Elon Musk’s Grok and the Mass Undressing Scandal As I draft this, a week later, it appears pressure from civil society, investigations by regulators, and outright bans on multiple continents have forced Musk to back down to an u...

Serverless Framework's Q1 2026 newsletter covering Lambda managed instances, durable functions, native AppSync support, built-in pruning, AWS SSO login, and plugin-to-core integrations.

Serverless Framework's Q1 2026 newsletter covering Lambda managed instances, durable functions, native AppSync support, built-in pruning, AWS SSO login, and plugin-to-core integrations.

Experience the classic OpenStreetMap style in a dark mode. It offers cartography with high-contrast icons, colours, and typography to ensure perfect clarity against the dark background.

We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.19.1 with two regressions fixed. See the release notes of 1.19.0 for all the changes introduced in Crystal 1.19. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instruc...

I came across a recent article on making Linux system calls from a Wine process. Windows programs running under Wine are still normal Linux processes and may interact with the Linux kernel like any other process. None of this was surprising, and the demonstration works just as I expect. Still, it go...

Update: CSF Project Status (January 2026) - Since the original publication of this article, there have been key developments in how ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) is maintained following the shutdown of Way to the Web Ltd on August 31, 2025.Continue reading...

If you’re integrating your Vercel preview deployments with Neon, you’re already getting an isolated Postgres branch per preview. We just extended the same automation to authentication. When you use Neon through the Vercel integration and enable Auth, every Vercel deployment gets its own isolated aut...

Last weekend we took the ferry to Bainbridge Island to see a Mochi Tsuki event. I read about the history of Japanese immigrants on Bainbridge island. I saw people making mochi, a taiko drummer group, and traditional dances. It was a lot of fun, and I learned a lot. Definitely recommend this event!