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Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?
Yes, plain Docker Compose can still run production workloads in 2026, but only if you close the operational gaps it leaves: cleanup, healing, image pinning, socket security, and updates.
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Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage
Healthchecks.io ping endpoints accept HTTP HEAD, GET, and POST request methods. When using HTTP POST, clients can include an arbitrary payload in the request body. Healthchecks.io stores the first 100kB of the request body. If the request body is tiny, Healthchecks.io stores it in the PostgreSQL database. Otherwise…
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Cloudflare Email Service
Agents are becoming multi-channel. That means making them available wherever your users already are — including the inbox. Today, Cloudflare Email Service enters public beta with the infrastructure layer to make that easy: send, receive, and process email natively from your agents.
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Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
We're building AI Gateway into a unified inference layer for AI, letting developers call models from 14+ providers. New features include Workers AI binding integration and an expanded catalog with multimodal models.
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Building a SaaS in 2026 Using Only EU Infrastructure
A practical guide to building a SaaS product on a 100% European stack: hosting, payments, CDN, analytics, and transactional email.
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We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
Oooooh boy. Let’s get this out of the way first. Email sucks. Now to the how and the why. We’re builders. We love making tools to help designers and developers live a little bit easier. We’re pretty good at it. Marketing, though? We do our best, but the truth is, we don’t like to bother […]
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We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2
We migrated http://railway.com, the dashboard, and the canvas from Next.js to Vite + TanStack Router in two PRs. Here's why, how, and what we learned.
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Dear Heroku: Uhh What's Going On?
An open letter urging Heroku to clarify its roadmap, define “sustaining engineering,” and communicate honest business intent to developers.
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Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Hijacked maintainer account used to publish poisoned axios releases including 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. The attacker injected a hidden dependency that drops a cross platform RAT. We are actively investigating and will update this post with a full technical analysis.
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OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha
Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that the Profiles signal has officially entered public Alpha, and we are…
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The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub
Today, we are excited to announce the Early Availability of the RISE RISC-V Runners , a free, managed GitHub Actions runner service that gives any open source project access to real RISC-V hardware in their CI pipelines. No emulation, no cross-compilation hacks, no waitlist. Install a GitHub App, change one line in…
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Entso-E final report on Iberian 2025 blackout
The final report of the Expert Panel on the 28 April 2025 blackout in continental Spain and Portugal identifies the causes of the blackout and outlines recommendations to strengthen the resilience of Europe’s interconnected electricity system. It was prepared by a technical Expert Panel of 49 members, including…
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Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc
Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and mo…
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Cloudflare crawl endpoint
Browser Rendering's new /crawl endpoint lets you submit a starting URL and automatically discover, render, and return content from an entire website as HTML, Markdown, or structured JSON.
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Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on February 20, 2026. A subset of customers who use Cloudflare’s Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service saw their routes to the Internet withdrawn via Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
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A distributed queue in a single JSON file on object storage
How to build a single global queue for distributed systems on object storage: Start with a single file on object storage, then add write batching, a stateless broker, and high-availability.
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The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
By Ljubisa Bajic Many believe AI is the real deal. In narrow domains, it already surpasses human performance. Used well, it is an unprecedented amplifier of human ingenuity and productivity. Its widespread adoption is hindered by two key barriers: high latency and astronomical cost. Interactions with language models…
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DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation
When you request a certificate from Let’s Encrypt, our servers validate that you control the hostnames in that certificate using ACME challenges. For subscribers who need wildcard certificates or who prefer not to expose infrastructure to the public Internet, the DNS-01 challenge type has long been the only choice…
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Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
Work around hard NATs and tricky networks with production-grade connectivity nodes you control
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Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
Learn how to run NanoClaw, a Claude-powered WhatsApp assistant, inside a Docker Sandboxes shell sandbox for stronger isolation and proxy-managed API keys.
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Zero downtime migrations at petabyte scale (2024)
Data migrations are a critical part of the database lifecycle, and are sometimes necessary for version upgrades, sharding, or moving to a new platform. In many cases, migrations are painful and error-prone. In this article, we walk through how migrations are performed at PlanetScale, and offer advice on how to improve…
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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
Backblaze's 2025 Year-End Drive Stats Report provides an in-depth analysis of hard drive failure rates for Q4, the full year, and lifetime performance across its data center fleet.
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Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
Anthropic commits to covering consumer electricity price increases caused by its data centers, including grid upgrades and new power generation.
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Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators
On 11th February, Let’s Encrypt will be rolling out a change to the certificates they issue to servers by default. Although there is generally nothing that Prosody operators need to do, servers using the new certificates may experience problems connecting to some other XMPP servers on the network.
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Sleeper Shells: Attackers Are Planting Dormant Backdoors in Ivanti EPMM
A February 2026 campaign used a internal JSP path and in-memory Java class loaders to quietly seed persistent access across Ivanti EPMM deployments - then walked away. We break down the tradecraft.
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gRPC: From service definition to wire format
A comprehensive deep dive into the gRPC protocol, from service definitions and streaming models to the low-level HTTP/2 framing and wire format.
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Bun v1.3.9
Fixes 23 issues (addressing 13 👍). Run multiple scripts in --parallel or --sequential. bun:test mock & spyOn get Symbol.dispose support. ESM bytecode compilation. Faster Bun.markdown. Faster RegExp, String.prototype.trim, String.prototype.startsWith.