Discover why your current payment stack is an operational drag and how to fix it
7 May
Thanks to pioneers like Twilio and Stripe, API products have redefined what a great developer experience (DX) looks like. These companies have demonstrated how targeted API products, along with exceptional documentation and onboarding, can make developers enthusiastic advocates for their brands. However, the API product market is shifting — the rise of AI agents means ...
Author: Stanislav Glukhov When you run a large production footprint in Google Cloud, changing a VM family is never just a hardware refresh. In our case, HAProxy sits on a critical path of the platform, serving as part of the traffic layer that hundreds of downstream systems quietly depend on every day. That means even a seemingly straightforward migration from…
Starting today, you can now browse, purchase, and even gift and wishlist in-game items for Rust directly in Discord! See how it all works, and learn about a hefty two-week Discord-exclusive launch discount on a wide selection of officially-made Rust items.
Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT, an optional safety feature that notifies someone you trust if serious self-harm concerns are detected.
OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.
Simplex boosts software development with ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, reducing design, build, and testing time while scaling AI-driven workflows.
Introducing Ola: An Agent-Native Communication Channel and Oversight Platform from Twilio Forward
TwilioIntroducing Ola, a dedicated channel to communicate with all your AI agents – assign tasks, manage permissions, approve actions, and verify past activity.
The Twilio Connector and Claude Code plugin let teams design and build customer communications across voice, messaging, and email directly from Claude.ai, Claude Cowork, and Claude Code.
Orchestrate an AI-to-Human Agent Handoff with Twilio Agent Connect, Conversations Orchestrator, Studio, and Flex
TwilioLearn the architecture, system components, and best practices for executing AI-to-Human Agent Handoff with Twilio Agent Connect, Conversations Orchestrator, Studio, and Flex.
Introducing the Twilio MCP Server and Skills: Give Your Coding Agents Native Access to 1,800+ Twilio APIs
TwilioTwilio MCP server and Skills give AI agents native access to 1,800+ Twilio APIs and expert guidance to write better code, faster, without leaving your IDE.
6 May
Do you struggle with interviews? You're not alone! You can have the best interview notes in the world, but when you start having that vocal conversation, you might end up a deer in the headlights, fre... The post Build a Real-Time Voice Interview Coach with TypeScript and LiveKit appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.
From Local to Production: Deploy Your Microsoft Agent Framework Agent with Foundry Hosted Agents
Microsoft Semantic KernelOnce you have your Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) agent or workflow happily running locally on your dev machine, it’s time to decide how to deploy your agent to production, monitor it, evaluate it and version it. These decisions are just as important as getting the agent running. Hosted Agents in Foundry Agent Service is the […] The post From Local…
How we replaced Ingress-NGINX at Stack Overflow
Stack OverflowIngress-NGINX had been handling our traffic routing since moving to Kubernetes, but when it was announced it would be retired, we were forced to consider a new traffic routing solution. …
GitLab is open source software. With GitLab, users can manage their projects more easily through features designed to support collaborative ... Read More The post How to Install GitLab on Ubuntu 26.04 appeared first on RoseHosting.
On May 5, 2026, DENIC published broken DNSSEC signatures for the .de TLD, making millions of domains unreachable. Here's what 1.1.1.1 saw, how serve stale cushioned the impact, and how we restored resolution.
Build durable AI agent workflows with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Start with in-process console apps, add durability with the Durable Task runtime, scale with parallel AI agents, and host on Azure Functions for serverless execution. The post Durable Workflows in the Microsoft Agent Framework appeared first on .NET Blog.
AWS announces the general availability of the AWS MCP Server, a managed remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that gives AI agents and coding assistants secure, authenticated access to all AWS services. The AWS MCP Server is part of the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a suite of tooling that includes the MCP Server, skills, and plugins that help coding agents…
The global email marketing market is valued at $13.72 billion in 2026 and projected to reach $22.93 billion by 2031. Automated emails already generate 30% of all email revenue fro… The post Email marketing trends in 2026: Data and insights appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
null Foundations First: Four Pillars Every Enterprise Needs Before AI on SitePoint.
I have a new book out, Don’t Get Hacked! Protecting Yourself at Home. It’s released under a Creative Commons license, so it’s freely sharable and redistributable. I’m working on making print copies available.
Static libraries don't stand a chance. The post Why not have changes in API behavior depend on the SDK you link against? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
There’s an assumption floating around right now that working with AI is supposed to feel effortless. When you prompt AI, you describe what you want, iterate a bit, and eventually land on something usable. Sometimes that works. More often, it leads to a long chain of almost-correct outputs, missed edge cases, and issues that only […] The post How to…
NVIDIA Spectrum-X — the Open, AI-Native Ethernet Fabric — Sets the Standard for Gigascale AI, Now With MRC
NvidiaThe race to build the world’s most powerful AI factories demands networking that keeps pace with the ambitions of AI itself. NVIDIA Spectrum-X Ethernet scale-out infrastructure stands at the forefront of that race as the most advanced AI networking technology available today, deployed by industry leaders who can’t afford to compromise on performance, resilience or […]
A look at how my portfolio came together as a technical handshake, with GSAP orchestrating everything from shader uniforms to text reveals.
Learn how ChatGPT safeguards your privacy, reduces personal data in training, and gives you control over whether your conversations improve AI models.
Between August 9 and August 17, 2025, malicious actors were able to export data from over 700 organizations. To make matters worse, the breach, referred to as UNC6395, was caused by insecure tokens leaked by a third-party app called Salesloft. As a representative from Google put it in a statement, “After the data was exfiltrated, ...
Authors: Pavel Grinchenko, Frontend Engineer, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Performance, Open Source, JavaScript, TypeScript, Astro.js, React Most marketing sites ship a SPA framework just to toggle a sidebar. Here's how we migrated an Astro site from React and Ark UI to native Web Components: 100 KB less JavaScript, no functionality lost, and a tiny library called nanotags that…
Singular Bank built Singularity, an internal assistant using ChatGPT and Codex to help bankers save 60–90 minutes daily on meeting prep, portfolio analysis, and follow-up.
Meet the ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026—26 student innovators using AI to build, research, and drive real-world impact. Discover how this generation is redefining learning, creativity, and opportunity with ChatGPT.
Uber uses OpenAI to power AI assistants and voice features that help drivers earn smarter and riders book faster across a global real-time marketplace.
OpenAI’s B2B Signals research shows how frontier enterprises deepen AI adoption, scale Codex-powered agentic workflows, and build durable competitive advantage.
5 May
Why This Matters in the Era of Agentic Everything The gap between a Jira ticket and the first pull request (PR) is often a graveyard of productivity. Context switching, boilerplate setup, and requirement analysis can eat up hours of a senior engineer's day before they write a single line of business logic. Recently, industry leaders have showcased "Harness Engineering" [1][2]…
Amazon WorkSpaces now lets AI agents securely operate legacy desktop applications—without APIs or modernization—using IAM authentication, MCP support, and computer vision within existing security frameworks.
Designing monitoring that works when everything else doesn’t. By : Abdurrahman J. Allawala Introduction When an incident hits, teams lean on observability to answer the only questions that matter: what’s broken, and why? Monitoring systems are designed to help you answer these questions, and they usually do. But what happens when your observability stack is dependent on the same systems…
Enterprise AI has learned to generate. It has learned to reason. Now companies are asking the next question: How should AI act? Early agent systems have shown what’s possible, moving beyond simple prompts to take on more complex tasks. The next step is bringing those capabilities into enterprise environments — where agents must operate with […]
How the cloud changes the way we build applications, and why engineers’ ethical choices matter more than ever. Excerpt from the book, ‘Designing Data-Intensive Applications’, 2nd edition
Over the last couple of months Rahul Garg published a series of posts here on how to reduce the friction in AI-assisted programming. To make it easier to put these ideas into practice he’s now built an open-source framework to operationalize these patterns. AI coding assistants jump straight to code, silently make design decisions, forget constraints mid-conversation, and produce output…
In the early 1960s, Fred Brooks managed the development of IBM's System/360 computer systems. After it was done he penned his thoughts in the book The Mythical Man-Month which became one of the most influential books on software development after its publication in 1975. Reading it in 2026, we'll find some of it outdated, but it also retains many lessons…
The open web is a critical platform for applications that handle highly sensitive data, from private communications to financial transactions and medical records. Traditionally, servers are trusted to deliver the appropriate code and resources for their web applications to browsers, who then provide a secure and isolated environment for their execution. In some circumstances, this […] The post Trustworthy JavaScript…
Uncover PubNub's Hosted MCP Server, the managed server that enables fast set-up, real-time context in moments, and simple security at scale.
Excerpt By 2024, Slack’s data platform had accumulated 700+ SSH-based operators orchestrating critical data pipelines. We’re talking daily search indexing that processed terabytes of data, analytics jobs powering business intelligence, the whole shebang. Every single one of these jobs required direct SSH access to production AWS Elastic MapReduce (EMR) clusters. We had a massive security…
A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures
Raymond ChenI want to speak to your manager. The post A dispute over the <KBD>TAB</KBD> key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures appeared first on The Old New Thing.
After watching this video course, you’ll be able to use Codex CLI to add features to a Python project directly from your terminal. Codex CLI is an AI-powered coding assistant that runs inside your terminal. It understands your project structure, reads your files, and proposes multi-file changes using natural language instructions. Instead of copying code from a browser or relying…
We've all been there: you need to generate a few images for a project, you fire up an AI image service, and suddenly you're wondering what happens to your prompts, how many credits you have left, or why that "safe content" filter rejected your perfectly reasonable request for a dragon wearing a business suit. What...
Recently, my software development team needed to upgrade our Expo version (it was at 52). Doing so in a monorepo containing multiple web and mobile apps was a big job—when we upgraded, we’d need to verify that the React and React Native versions in all the apps in the monorepo were compatible with the new […] The post How My…
Expedia Group Technology — Platform How AI changed the build vs. buy equation, and why discipline matters more than ever Photo by Ali Kazal on Unsplash Agentic coding tools and AI-native workflows have changed what’s possible for platform engineering teams. I lead Platform Engineering at Expedia Group ™, one of the world’s largest travel technology companies. We power brands like…
How I rebuilt Claude AI’s mascot animations from scratch, frame by frame, purely in code using SVG and GSAP.
Most people building apps with AI today aren't developers. Citizen developers already outnumber professional software developers four to one, no-code platforms can cut development… The post AI app builder statistics 2026: market size, adoption, and trends appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
GPT-5.5 Instant updates ChatGPT’s default model with smarter, more accurate answers, reduced hallucinations, and improved personalization controls.
Unlocking large scale AI training networks with MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection)
OpenAI EngineeringOpenAI introduces MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), a new supercomputer networking protocol released via OCP to improve resilience and performance in large-scale AI training clusters.
The complexity of modern containerized applications often leaves developers drowning in a sea of "noise"—vulnerabilities that exist in the file system but pose zero actual risk to the application. The integration between Black Duck and Docker Hardened Images (DHI) provides a definitive answer to this challenge. By combining Docker’s secure-by-default foundations, using VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability...
What (un)exactly do you mean by semantic search?
Stack OverflowRyan welcomes Brian O’Grady, Head of Field Research and Solutions Architecture at Qdrant, to discuss the differences between traditional text search engines powered by Lucene and modern vector databases, when vector search’s exact-match needs work for things like logs and security analytics and when semantic search works for user-facing discovery and non-exact results, and how Qdrant is growing into video…
“REST is dead.” “MCP will be gone within a year”. “Tooling is the new sprawl layer.” These are all takes we’ve read recently on the issues people are facing when it comes to connecting AI to APIs. Kelsey Hightower, for example, recently opened some interesting debate around the future of REST and MCP on Bluesky ...
Deep understanding of declarative versus imperative programming shapes how developers write, run, and maintain code. This guide explains the differences, challenges, and when to choose each approach.
“I was born into a pot of honey,” is a line Elise Hernaez-Iweins has said so often that it’s become her signature. As a fifth-generation beekeeper, honey wasn’t just part of her c… The post Secrets de Miel: From a family beekeeping legacy to a business for 3,000 women appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Authors: Gleb Stroganov, Product Designer, Varya Nekhina, Account Manager, and Travis Turner, Tech Editor Topics: Case Study, Developer Products, Product development, Developer marketing, Google Analytics A story of validating product demand on a $2K budget with 128 cold-traffic signups, an A/B winner at 95% confidence, and a sequenced playbook founders can run themselves. Building a product is one thing; knowing…
OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with a beta self-serve Ads Manager, CPC bidding, and enhanced measurement tools—built to protect privacy and keep conversations separate from ads.
Explore OpenAI’s European Youth Safety Blueprint and EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grants, advancing safe, responsible AI for teens, families, and educators.
I've been digging into agents for internal tooling and processes. Looking for how to scale without drowning in manual work. Here's what I found
4 May
OpenAI and PwC are partnering to help enterprises use AI agents to automate finance workflows, improve forecasting, strengthen controls, and modernize the CFO function.
Over the last couple of months I've had performance issues with Cloudflare (CF) about 2 times, including today. That's a sentence I never thought I'd write, because Cloudflare genuinely doesn't have performance issues most of the time, and when they do, it's usually on the status page as part of a larger issue. Continue reading...
OpenClaw is an autonomous AI agent framework that runs autonomously on the user’s infrastructure. This software acts as a bridge ... Read More The post How to Install OpenClaw on Debian 13 appeared first on RoseHosting.
Build intelligent AI agents in .NET with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Learn how to create agents with tools, multi-turn conversations, memory, and graph-based workflows that bring together the building blocks from Parts 1 and 2. The post Microsoft Agent Framework – Building Blocks for AI Part 3 appeared first on .NET Blog.
AWS Weekly Roundup: What’s Next with AWS 2026, Amazon Quick, OpenAI partnership, and more (May 4, 2026)
AWSLast week, I took some time off in York, England, often described as the most haunted city in the country. I wandered through the ruins of abbeys that have stood for nearly a thousand years, walked along medieval walls, and spent an evening on a ghost tour hearing stories passed down through centuries. There’s something […]
Gemini and Firebase AI Logic enabled Karrot to increase sales with a translation feature built in under 2 weeks
AndroidPosted by Thomas Ezan, Sr Developer Relations Engineer and Tracy Agyemang, Product Marketing Manager Karrot is a hyperlocal, community-driven peer-to-peer marketplace app that enables users to buy, sell, and trade items with other verified users. Since launching in South Korea in 2015, the platform has expanded into global markets, amassing over 43 million registered users. Integrating Gemini Firebase AI Logic…
Democratizing Machine Learning at Netflix: Building the Model Lifecycle Graph
Netflix Technology BlogSaish Sali , Nipun Kumar , Sura Elamurugu Introduction As Netflix has grown, machine learning continues to support our ability to deliver value to members and drive excellence across multiple areas of our business. When Netflix began investing in machine learning over a decade ago, it was primarily focused on a single domain: personalization. Scala was the industry standard, our…
BenihBunbun is a sustainable enterprise based in West Java, Indonesia. Azifah An'amillah founded it, runs it, and has built it into something that now employs 20 women, all of the… The post BenihBunbun: A mother, a village, and a business that slows down when the kids come home appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
This has been bugging me for years: you often run a JVM by a shell script wrapper, then want to jstack it to figure out what it’s doing, but can’t figure out what PID to ask for. Running jps gives remarkably unhelpful output, especially for tools like Leiningen. I wrote a hacky little Ruby script to dig into the process…
Some SQL operators are as esoteric as they’re powerful. One of the oldest operator that you’ve likely hardly ever used in real world applications is NATURAL JOIN which is the default in relational algebra. We’ve covered a funky use-case for NATURAL JOIN earlier on this blog. The main reason why it’s not very useful is … Continue reading Why JOIN…
You don't. All files are binary at the file system level. The post How do I inform Windows that I’m writing a binary file? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
The Best Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Tools to Improve AI Search Visibility (2026) – A complete guide
SitePointCompare 11 generative engine optimization tools for 2026. Covers AI visibility trackers, citation analytics, and full GEO platforms with real pricing and features. The Best Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Tools to Improve AI Search Visibility (2026) – A complete guide on SitePoint.
Recently, I was onboarded to a React Native project on a new developer laptop. I realized that the initial setup to launch the app had a few tricks and small gotchas that weren’t obvious at first. Here’s a simple breakdown that will hopefully help if you need it! Setting Up Developer Tools Before configuring platform-specific […] The post A Beginner’s…
In a digital world increasingly shaped by templates and automated systems, we still believe in the power of crafted experiences.
Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Golden Kodee Finalists, Kotlin 2.4.0-Beta2, and New Learning Resources
KotlinHi everyone! April brought exciting community news with the announcement of the Golden Kodee finalists, along with Kotlin and tooling releases, multiplatform progress, and fresh backend resources. I also came across the new Kotlin Professional Certificate on LinkedIn Learning, which is a great way to build your skills. And if you want something more playful, […]
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Reviewed by Sumit Sarabhai Fetching a million rows from SQL Server into a Polars DataFrame used to mean a million Python objects, a million GC allocations, and then throwing it all away to build a DataFrame. Not anymore. mssql-python now supports fetching SQL Server data directly as Apache Arrow structures – a faster and more […] The post Introducing Apache…
Carbon emissions are the most common way to measure AI's environmental footprint. That makes sense because they're standardized, comparable across industries, and relatively well … The post Environmental impact of AI: The full picture and what infrastructure can do about it appeared first on Hostinger Blog.
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
A while back I decided to stop using Tailwind for new projects and to just write vanilla CSS instead. But one thing I missed about Tailwind was the colour palette (here as CSS). If I wanted a light blue I could just use blue-100 and if I didn’t like it maybe try blue-200 or blue-50. I’m not very good with…
How OpenAI rebuilt its WebRTC stack to power real-time Voice AI with low latency, global scale, and seamless conversational turn-taking.
The Rust Project has been building up a good history of participating in various open-source mentorship programs, including Google Summer of Code for three years (including this year) and previously OSPP. We're happy to announce that this year we are also participating in Outreachy starting in the May 2026 cohort. Each of these mentorship programs has different criteria for eligibility…
3 May
How to write reusable middleware for Rust Lambda functions using tower, the generic middleware engine that already underpins the AWS Lambda Rust runtime. Includes a complete DynamoDB-backed IP rate limiter with SAM deployment.
Detroit has always been a city of systems. Long before people talked about “platforms” or “digital transformation,” Detroit was solving a harder problem: how to coordinate thousands of moving parts with precision. Assembly lines, supplier networks, logistics routes—these weren’t just operations. They were carefully designed systems, built to be reliable under pressure. If one part […] The post Software Is…
A practical guide to Linux environment variables: how to set, export, persist, and debug them correctly across shell sessions, user accounts, system-wide configs, and systemd services. Continue reading...
Over the last several months, AI has moved from a side experiment to an integral part of day-to-day product practice. The shift is practical rather than theoretical, but it is still very much in motion. Recurring coordination work is beginning to take meaningfully less time, while the substantive work that defines the role, such as problem framing, solution shaping, navigating…
Professional expertise on the psychology of the gambling addict had not kept Adam safe from becoming one...
I'm a life long professional wrestling fan. Growing up in Tampa in the 1980s and 90s meant not only seeing the WWF superstars on television, but also seeing them at the bank or the mall. Even had a neighbor that was a title holder in one of the local promotions. While I grew up on the likes of Hogan and…
2 May
If you spend any time in Linux forums, you've seen DistroWatch's Page Hit Ranking cited as proof one distro is "more popular" than another. It isn't. Continue reading...
A two-year journey to create a layered, engaging portfolio beyond the traditional gallery.
I give a talk called “Claude for Normies” to rooms full of professionals who are feeling confused and stuck. They’re taking shelter as the AI earthquake upends work (or at least conversations about work on LinkedIn) around them. The talk walks attendees through a seven-level Claude adoption framework. I’ve run it enough times now to […] The post Offices are…
Hello! One of my long term projects on here is figuring out how to write frontend Javascript without using Node or any other server JS runtime. One issue I run into a lot in my frontend JS projects is that I don’t know how to write tests for them. I’ve tried to use Playwright in the past, but it felt…
1 May
We have completed a massive engineering effort to make our infrastructure more resilient. Through new tools like Snapstone and the Engineering Codex, we've implemented safer configuration changes and automated best practices to prevent future incidents.
By Nipun Kumar , Rajat Shah , Peter Chng Introduction This is the first blog post in a multi-part series that shares technical insights into how our ML model serving infrastructure powers several personalized experiences at scale across various domains (e.g., title recommendations, commerce). In this introductory blog post, we will dive into our domain-independent API abstraction and its traffic…
A practical loop for optimizing GPU inference without guessing It wasn’t an incident. That made it interesting. A few days after a cloud migration, one of our highest-traffic ML services looked healthy. Traffic was flowing. Latency was fine. The rollout had gone the way you want these things to go: boringly. And yet a Slack thread started anyway. Not because…
Guangtong Bai | Staff Software Engineer, Product ML Infrastructure*; Shantam Shorewala | Software Engineer II, Product ML Infrastructure*; Chi Zhang | Staff Software Engineer, AI Platform*; Neha Upadhyay | Software Engineer II, AI Platform*; Haoyang Li | Director, Product ML Infrastructure *These authors contributed equally to this article. Background At Pinterest, our online ML serving systems employ a root-leaf architecture.…
The HSM-based Backup Key Vault Meta’s HSM-based Backup Key Vault provides the foundation for end-to-end encrypted backups for WhatsApp and Messenger. The system allows people to protect their backed-up message history with a recovery code, ensuring that the recovery code is stored in tamper-resistant hardware security modules (HSMs) and is inaccessible to Meta, cloud storage [...] Read More... The post…
Turning OpenAPI spec and Markdown files into a conversational ads management tool — no compiled code required. The post Building a Natural Language Interface to the Spotify Ads API with Claude Code Plugins appeared first on Spotify Engineering.