<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>PHP is not dead, it’s evolving</strong>: Despite persistent rumors, PHP is very much alive and kicking, powering a huge chunk of the web. Modern PHP, especially with frameworks like Laravel, has evolved significantly, offering strong typing, better performance, and a cleaner syntax. Companies like team.blue are even sponsoring the PHP Foundation, showing a strong commitment to its future. This isn’t your grandpa’s PHP anymore. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=TwG8uKyMT&amp;id=4jhBq8WMe&amp;id=oD7cEm0uR&amp;id=JiZoQGrog" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Kubernetes ingress-nginx is dead, long live cilium</strong>: The Kubernetes ingress-nginx project is officially being archived, meaning no more active maintenance or security updates after March 2026. This affects about half of all cloud-native environments. You’ll need to migrate to alternatives like Cilium Ingress for a quick fix or Cilium’s Gateway API for more advanced features. This highlights the ongoing challenges of open-source sustainability and maintainer burnout. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=PptBbhnAu&amp;id=wK9Dxbori" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Upwind security raises big bucks for runtime cloud security</strong>: Upwind Security just snagged $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation for its ‘runtime’ cloud security platform. They’re doing things differently, focusing on ‘inside-out’ analysis of internal signals like network requests, rather than the traditional ‘outside-in’ scanning. This approach, combined with 900% year-over-year revenue growth, suggests a shift in how cloud security is being tackled, especially with plans to expand AI security capabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LGgCBPA2D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Strict comparison is the only way in modern PHP</strong>: Strict comparison (===) in PHP is faster, more secure, and more predictable than loose comparison (==), which relies on type juggling that can lead to unpredictable behavior and security vulnerabilities. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/WEvqi7GIn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Optimizing PHP scripts for millions of rows</strong>: A PHP developer managed to process 11 million database events in seconds by combining SQL inserts, moving calculations to PHP, eliminating object instantiation, and removing JSON deserialization, proving that PHP can be performant with careful optimization. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/oqF9cnFsn" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Dokploy beats Coolify for self-hosted PaaS</strong>: Dokploy is emerging as a stronger self-hosted PaaS alternative to Coolify for production environments, offering better Docker integration, broader backup capabilities, and native Docker Swarm support, giving developers more control and predictable costs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/u27Unbj2l" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>OpenEverest offers open-source database automation</strong>: Percona announced OpenEverest, an open-source platform for automated database provisioning and management on Kubernetes, supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB with features like automated backups and scaling, aiming for independent open governance. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/hNifCVJEN" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Snowflake plugs postgresql into its AI data cloud</strong>: Snowflake is integrating PostgreSQL as a database-as-a-service within its AI Data Cloud, allowing transactional workloads alongside analytics and AI under unified governance, reducing ETL complexity and supporting real-time AI workflows. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/ppuh0CVeq" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Uber’s intelligent database load management</strong>: Uber evolved its database overload protection from static rate limiting to an intelligent load management system, dynamically adjusting traffic based on multiple overload signals, resulting in significantly higher throughput and reduced latency under stress. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/FRZLNdmAF" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux binary compatibility solution with musl and custom dlopen</strong>: A new technical solution combines <code>musl libc</code> with a custom <code>dlopen</code> implementation to enable single static binaries with hardware-accelerated graphics to run across any Linux distribution, addressing compatibility issues between <code>glibc</code> and <code>musl</code>. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/M4zcYDS4K" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>AI-coded tools for local AI code review</strong>: Apparently, a new tool called GitHuman, entirely written by an AI, reviews AI-generated code changes. The developers even claim every commit was human-reviewed using GitHuman itself. Because nothing says ‘trustworthy’ like an AI reviewing its own AI-generated code, right? What could possibly go wrong? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/M78k9F0lW" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agent skill for SwiftUI development</strong>: An open-source SwiftUI Agent Skill was released to help AI coding assistants build and refactor SwiftUI views, promising to reduce technical debt by embedding SwiftUI expertise upfront. Because clearly, the problem with SwiftUI wasn’t the framework itself, but the lack of AI telling us how to use it ‘correctly.’ <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LlEDXwb6h" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI-powered driving instructor from an insurance company</strong>: Discovery Insure launched an AI-powered Advanced Driving Instructor that uses telematics data and generative AI to create personalized driving goals and rewards. Because who better to teach you how to drive than your insurance company, which definitely has your best interests at heart and not just lower payouts? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/LsXY4pcoJ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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