<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 notable improvement for geographically distributed workloads, as reported by Renato Losio and Cloudflare’s own announcements. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/XbGrpoJDs" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cloudflare outage caused by BYOIP bug</strong>: Cloudflare experienced a 6-hour outage affecting its Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) service due to a software bug in a cleanup sub-task. An API query error caused the system to withdraw approximately 1,100 BGP prefixes, impacting services including one.one.one.one. Cloudflare is implementing several remediation steps, including improved API validation and circuit breakers, to prevent similar incidents, as detailed in their post-mortem. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hy3FNhBxD" 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. This mechanism uses stored procedures to write messages to SQL Server’s ERRORLOG, which CloudWatch Logs then filters to invoke Lambda functions. This decouples business logic from the database, offering scalability and cost reduction, as highlighted by SteefJan. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/KzhIuYzeh" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Structured concurrency in Go</strong>: While Go’s <code>go</code> statement is unstructured, patterns like <code>errgroup</code>, <code>WaitGroup</code>, and <code>context</code> can achieve structured goroutine management, with Go 1.26 introducing an experimental goroutine leak profiler. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/2zOi0Da7K" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>TigerBeetle engineer shares naming convention for indexing</strong>: A TigerBeetle engineer proposes a naming convention using <code>index</code>, <code>count</code>, <code>offset</code>, and <code>size</code> to reduce off-by-one errors and improve code clarity, particularly in Zig. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/p5Qa2439C" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>SRv6 implementation in VPP improved</strong>: A deep dive into SRv6 in VPP led to fixing a quad-loop bug causing packet loss and adding support for encap/decap on sub-interfaces, enhancing network routing capabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/U37jx9aF5" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenAI introduces AI-driven harness engineering</strong>: OpenAI’s internal “Harness Engineering” uses Codex agents for large-scale software development, shifting engineers’ roles to designing environments and specifying intent, with no manually written source code for a beta product. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dPCNsAxds" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI data centers study high-temperature superconductors</strong>: Hyperscalers like Microsoft are investing in high-temperature superconductors (HTS) to replace copper wiring in AI data centers, aiming for smaller, lighter, and more efficient power delivery with near-zero resistance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/jbBqj45d9" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Ward security scanner for Laravel written in Go</strong>: Ward is a new open-source security scanner for Laravel projects, built in Go, that performs static analysis to identify vulnerabilities and supports custom rules. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/dji7is7Et" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>YouTube outage reveals recommendation engine architecture</strong>: A 2-hour YouTube outage provided insights into its multi-stage ML recommendation pipeline, highlighting the importance of graceful degradation and robust fallback mechanisms in large-scale distributed systems. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/V6urGeJlb" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>EFF cracks the AI slop problem with human accountability</strong>: The EFF updated its open-source policy, requiring contributors to understand AI-assisted code and ensure human-authored comments, effectively shifting accountability upstream. So, instead of actually detecting AI-generated ‘slop,’ they’re just making humans responsible for it. Brilliant. It’s almost like they’re admitting AI detection is a fool’s errand and we’re back to trusting people, but with extra paperwork. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/W3yzAhjLd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Unity CEO claims AI will soon make entire games</strong>: Unity’s CEO announced that a beta at GDC will allow developers to prompt full casual games into existence using natural language. Sure, for simple games like Flappy Bird, maybe. But the idea that AI will replace professional game developers for anything beyond glorified tech demos is just another dose of hype, ignoring the actual craft and complexity of game design. It’s a productivity tool, not a magic game-making button. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/VkFal2xDM" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google VP warns against thin AI wrappers</strong>: A Google Cloud VP warns that AI startups relying on thin LLM wrappers or aggregation without deep differentiation are doomed, comparing them to early AWS resellers. So, the big players are finally admitting that just slapping a UI on an API isn’t a business model? Shocking. It’s almost like they want everyone to build on their platforms, but only if they’re doing something genuinely innovative, not just reselling their own services. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/djwfpUzVm" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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