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CircleCI has made its Machine Runner Orchestrator 1.0.0 generally available, providing automated scaling of self-hosted machine runner virtual machines according to CI workload demand. By Craig Risi
HashiCorp has announced the general availability of version 8.0 of the Terraform provider for Google Cloud. The major release updates the default load balancing for two Compute Engine resources. It also removes resources linked to…
Valkey is a growing project, launched as a fork of Redis over two years ago, supported by twelve maintainers and nine committee members from various companies. Recent developments include enhanced throughput, improved cluster functionality, and…
Cloudflare has launched K2 in public beta, a serverless event streaming service implementing a durable log on R2 object storage. Cloudflare states produce latency of about one second at p99; a tester reported end-to-end p99…
European organisations can enhance their technological sovereignty by developing credible alternatives and acquiring necessary skills, rather than completely avoiding global providers. A panel discussion at the OSS EU highlighted the importance of understanding dependencies in…
During its recent “Birthday Week”, Cloudflare announced Clef, a set of open-weight AI models designed to choose between predefined options rather than generate text. Cloudflare released 9B- and 27B-parameter models, along with a platform for…
At Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2026, Wolfram Sang discussed the Linux building blocks for asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP). He highlighted the solid foundation but noted challenges like limited contributor coverage and fragmented testing. Sang's work on…
A survey conducted by independent research firm Coleman Parkes on behalf of Undo, a company focused on scaling AI-powered root-cause analysis, found that while AI coding agents have accelerated code generation, they have shifted the…
On October 14, InfoQ will host a free 60-minute panel with five practitioners on running AI in production. They'll discuss agent autonomy and human approval, how to verify AI-generated changes, sensitive-data exposure, and production RAG.…
Grab migrated its high-volume Counter Service from a wide column database to Aerospike using storage abstraction, shadow traffic, data parity validation, and gradual traffic migration. The redesigned data model consolidated time buckets into map-based records.…
Cloudflare placed frontier AI models inside a controlled testing harness to probe its Web Application Firewall (WAF), using blocked attacks as starting points for models to generate and refine new variations. By Matt Foster
Google has made Spanner Omni generally available, running its distributed SQL database on-premises, across clouds or on a laptop. Doing so meant replacing Colossus with a Colossus-like abstraction layer and TrueTime with software-based time synchronization.…