<h2>Must know</h2>
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<li><strong>Heroku is officially dead, alternatives emerge</strong>: Salesforce has moved Heroku into a sustaining engineering phase, halting new enterprise contract sales and effectively signaling its decline. This pivot aligns with Salesforce’s AI-led growth strategy, leaving existing users to treat Heroku as legacy infrastructure. Modern alternatives like Render, <a href="http://Fly.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Fly.io</a>, and Railway are stepping up to fill the void, offering more flexible and cost-effective PaaS solutions, as reported by <a href="http://FastRuby.io" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">FastRuby.io</a> and other sources. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=13PGZg8yI&amp;id=smfFrov84&amp;id=pW1DiQ44D" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI agents develop C compiler for Linux kernel</strong>: Anthropic researchers used 16 Claude Opus 4.6 AI agents to autonomously build a Rust-based C compiler capable of compiling the Linux kernel. While the experiment consumed $20,000 in API costs and the generated code is not production-ready due to inefficiency and subpar Rust quality, it demonstrates significant autonomous AI development capabilities. This raises concerns about deploying unverified AI-generated software, despite the compiler successfully building Linux 6.9 for multiple architectures. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=qhPl6UlEO&amp;id=9jEdtbewr" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Linux kernel permanently adopts Rust</strong>: Linux 7.0 officially concludes the ‘Rust experiment’ by making Rust a permanent part of the kernel project. This decision signals a long-term commitment to the language, encouraging investment in Rust training and development within the Linux ecosystem. The move follows years of community support and ongoing improvements, solidifying Rust’s role in future kernel development. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/k0qXAqGCH" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Good to know</h2>
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<li><strong>Valkey performance enhancements post-Redis fork</strong>: Valkey, a fork of Redis, is undergoing significant performance improvements in versions 8 and 9, including a redesigned internal hash table, reduced memory overhead, and up to 40% memory usage reduction for small key-value workloads while maintaining or improving throughput. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/BJPWCn9Zl" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI’s dual impact on software development</strong>: AI is fundamentally changing how developers interact with open-source software, leading to declining engagement metrics and overwhelming maintainers with low-quality, AI-generated pull requests, while also introducing new security vulnerabilities through hallucinated packages and insecure code generation. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=0CiZDAswQ&amp;id=0hMgfxxrs&amp;id=7G6kpg12b&amp;id=8yRieynOP&amp;id=KCC82Mw6D&amp;id=d4YFQW1JT&amp;id=eD5zl44R8&amp;id=gVU0l8bpQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Google Cloud Monitoring enhances OTLP metrics support</strong>: Google Cloud Monitoring now supports OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) for metrics, enabling provider-agnostic telemetry pipelines, direct SDK-to-Cloud Monitoring ingestion, and zero-code auto-instrumentation for metrics collection. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/REiFVQA5G" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Cluster API v1.12 enhances Kubernetes lifecycle management</strong>: Cluster API v1.12.0 introduces in-place updates for modifying existing machines without recreation and chained upgrades for skipping multiple Kubernetes minor versions in a single operation, significantly reducing friction in cluster lifecycle management. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/SwlgWxJBR" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Transformers.js v4 preview now available on NPM</strong>: Transformers.js v4 preview features a new C++ WebGPU runtime for cross-platform support, delivering 4x speedup for BERT models and 10x faster builds, with notable performance achievements like running 20B parameter models at ~60 tokens/second on M4 Pro Max. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/blzYLzH95" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>Multi-cloud apps at Stack Overflow</strong>: Stack Overflow’s platform engineering team deploys applications across Azure and GCP by having infrastructure publish metadata that apps consume at deploy time, using custom Go tooling, CNAB invocation images, and layered YAML overlays to centralize infrastructure definitions. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/bSkgMQ2FX" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>New DNS validation method DNS-PERSIST-01 introduced</strong>: DNS-PERSIST-01 is a new domain control validation method allowing Certificate Authorities to issue certificates based on a single, static DNS record, significantly reducing complexity for certificate automation, though raising security concerns about ACME account credentials and record permanence. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/7hFHkMPwg" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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<h2>Bullshit police</h2>
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<li><strong>Anthropic Claude co-work plugin release and tech stock market concerns</strong>: Anthropic released Claude Co-work with industry-specific plugins, and some sources are claiming this ‘wiped out $400 billion in tech stocks.’ Apparently, the mere existence of AI plugins is enough to send the entire SaaS business model into a tailspin. Because, you know, a few plugins are definitely going to replace every existing software service overnight. Sure, Jan. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/QnkkrfiEd" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI’s impact on cognitive skills: developer concerns</strong>: Two unnamed developers are worried that AI tools like ChatGPT are fostering ‘lazy thinking’ because they’re personally offloading cognitive tasks to AI. They’re concerned about losing deep thinking skills, which is a valid point, but also a bit rich coming from folks who admit to using AI for code generation and research. Maybe try thinking for yourself before complaining about AI making you lazy? <a href="https://app.daily.dev/posts/X3beZyrKi" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
<li><strong>AI hype, regulation, and investment trends</strong>: Moltbook, an ‘agentic AI’ social network, was hyped as the future but turned out to be human-controlled ‘AI theater.’ Meanwhile, someone paid $70 million for <a href="http://AI.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">AI.com</a>, because apparently, owning a generic domain name is a 10-20 year strategic investment in the AI future. It’s almost like the entire AI market is built on a foundation of FOMO and marketing, rather than actual, demonstrable breakthroughs. <a href="https://app.daily.dev/feed-by-ids?id=KxYxbzZtb&amp;id=eu7ShA5er&amp;id=jmvy6d70v&amp;id=nTkvD3DKT&amp;id=sOrxdsIQw" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">Read more</a></li>
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