GitHub's new Git storage architecture
GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works.
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GitHub's new Git storage architecture is built so thousands of agents can push to a single repository at once. Here's how it works.
Learn about Project Suncatcher, how we’re testing hardware survival for space, designing cooling systems for AI chips, and more.
RPKI now protects 70% of Internet routes. See what drove the 2026 jump, how well it stops invalid routes, and where gaps remain.
See how Netlify rebuilt Edge Functions on MicroVMs to deliver lower latency, greater reliability, and faster log delivery.
Agents are unlocking enormous productivity gains for customers, but their ability to work across files, networks, and applications can introduce new security risks. This can leave customers feeling like they only have two choices: give agents unrestr
The Claude Platform on AWS is now generally available, offering a new way for AWS customers to access the full set of Claude platform features with AWS authentication, billing, and commitment retirement.
How close to zero can you get on a 100% EU infrastructure stack? A bootstrapper-friendly setup for under €10 a month.
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…
On March 14, 2025, Albedo's first satellite, Clarity-1, launched on SpaceX Transporter-13. We took a big swing with our pathfinder. The mission goals:
A deep dive into the massive June 2026 DDoS attack on Read the Docs, the attack patterns we observed, and the mitigations and defenses we used to defend our infrastructure.
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.
We’ve renamed Home Assistant Cloud to Home Assistant Link. Here’s why the old name never did fit, and why this one finally does.
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…
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Resize or consolidate your free instances before they're terminated.
How customer needs shaped Oxide's Kubernetes integrations.
We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers
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…
After 5 years in DevOps, I moved into Solutions Engineering. Here’s what I was missing, what changed, and who this path might be for.
A practical guide to building a SaaS product on a 100% European stack: hosting, payments, CDN, analytics, and transactional email.
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.
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).
Every agent tool stores memory in its own shape, and every week someone builds another one. None of them can read the others. Observability had the same problem until OpenTelemetry gave everyone one data model to share. A tour of today's memory formats, the proposals that already exist, and what a shared spec could…
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
We moved our warehouse product off DuckDB and DuckLake onto our own flavor of Trino and a new open table format, HogLake. Here's what broke at scale and why.
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.
How a statistical approach cut IPFS content publishing times by over one order of magnitude.
In an easterly suburb of Mykolaiv, drinking water flowed from kitchen taps, as it has since last year thanks to a small off-grid solar field tucked inconspicuously into its midst. Paul Hockenos reports.
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Infomaniak transfers the majority of its voting rights to a Swiss public-benefit foundation. Your cloud remains sovereign, independent, and true to its values. Forever.
The estimated 1.5M kilometres of subsea communications cables underpins our global telecommunication services. This critical infrastructure faces serious challenges in the coming years.