<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Cloudflare R2 local uploads reduce latency</strong>: Cloudflare has launched “Local Uploads” for its R2 object storage, now in open beta, which significantly reduces cross-region write latency by up to 75%. This feature allows data to be written to the nearest Cloudflare PoP and then asynchronously replicated to the bucket’s home region, making objects immediately accessible. This is a big deal for geographically distributed workloads, aiming to speed up upload performance without additional costs, as reported by Cloudflare. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XbGrpoJDs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>PostgreSQL 19 gets per-process logging and standby status in psql</strong>: PostgreSQL 19 is introducing granular logging control, allowing <code>log_min_messages</code> to be configured per process type, which means you can debug specific components like autovacuum without flooding all logs. Additionally, psql will now show if you’re connected to a primary or standby server directly in the prompt, a small but mighty improvement for managing replicated environments, according to depesz. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=jFpuJ6YrS&amp;id=nQ1LJvlCo" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare outage highlights distributed systems challenges</strong>: Cloudflare experienced a 6-hour outage affecting its Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service due to a software bug that unintentionally withdrew BGP prefixes. The incident, which also briefly impacted one.one.one.one, underscores the complexities of managing large-scale distributed systems and the importance of robust API validation and fallback mechanisms, as detailed in Cloudflare’s post-mortem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hy3FNhBxD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI introduces AI-driven harness engineering</strong>: OpenAI is using an internal AI-driven methodology called “Harness Engineering” where Codex agents handle large-scale software development tasks, including code generation and testing, with engineers shifting to designing environments and specifying intent. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dPCNsAxds" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AWS enables event-driven architectures for RDS SQL server</strong>: AWS now allows Lambda functions to be triggered directly from RDS for SQL Server database events, enabling event-driven architectures by parsing SQL Server’s ERRORLOG for messages to invoke Lambda functions via CloudWatch Logs and SNS/SQS. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KzhIuYzeh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>GPU-as-a-service for enterprise AI on-prem</strong>: A detailed guide outlines building a self-service GPU-as-a-Service platform on OpenShift, using Kubernetes for control and NVIDIA MIG for GPU resource management, complete with a ‘tokenomics’ cost framework for on-prem vs. cloud comparisons. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u2jLJ0ATD" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Sandkasten offers self-hosted sandbox for AI agents</strong>: Sandkasten provides a self-hosted sandbox runtime for AI agents, offering stateful Linux sandboxes with persistent shell sessions and file operations using native Linux primitives for isolation, without requiring Docker. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kdJWfknAe" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>.NET 11 preview 1 released</strong>: .NET 11 Preview 1 is out, featuring runtime-level async improvements, Zstandard compression support, and new C# 15 language features, signaling the direction for the next major .NET release. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=QBAQQNpLN&amp;id=xPZZ4nMO0" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>EFF updates open-source policy for AI-assisted coding</strong>: The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) updated its open-source policy, requiring contributors to understand and be able to explain all submitted code, including AI-assisted portions, shifting accountability upstream rather than relying on AI detection. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/W3yzAhjLd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SQL query optimization to prevent duplicate records</strong>: A practical example demonstrates how duplicate records in SQL queries can lead to budget loss and how to prevent it using CTEs with <code>ROW_NUMBER()</code> and <code>PARTITION BY</code> to ensure data integrity. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/a2v00i78Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>OpenAI promotes local Codex developer meetups</strong>: OpenAI is promoting community meetups for Codex, encouraging developers to “create and ship projects” using their AI. Because nothing says organic community building like a corporate-sponsored ambassador program to push your product. It’s definitely not about getting more people hooked on their ecosystem, right? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/kpaXVeVV9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Bluesky’s decentralization is mostly an illusion</strong>: Despite all the talk about ATProto and decentralization, Bluesky still centralizes nearly all user data on its own servers, controls the critical infrastructure like Relays and DID directories, and has raised $120M. It’s almost like they want to be acquired and sell off all that ‘decentralized’ data. Who could have seen that coming? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/K0INNI2R9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google VP warns against thin AI wrappers</strong>: A Google Cloud VP is warning that AI startups relying on thin wrappers around existing LLMs or acting as aggregators are doomed. Apparently, just slapping a UI on someone else’s model isn’t a sustainable business model. Shocking, I know. It’s almost like actual innovation and differentiation matter. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/djwfpUzVm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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