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September 23, 2025 at 2:22 AM

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Why .NET 8 remains the backbone of backend development in 2025 — fast, scalable, cloud-ready, and powered by AI share.google/F8KyOhr80IL6...

Why .NET 8 remains the backbone of backend development in 2025 — fast, scalable, cloud-ready, and powered by AI

.NET 8 solidifies its position as a leading backend development framework in 2025. Explore its speed, scalability, and cloud-readiness, enhanced by AI integration. Discover the latest features, perfor...

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September 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM

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Datadog Launches Monocle, a Unified Rust-Powered Real-Time Metrics Engine - InfoQ share.google/PdFvgodnwf5h...

Datadog Launches Monocle, a Unified Rust-Powered Real-Time Metrics Engine

Datadog has launched Monocle, a new real-time time series storage engine written in Rust. The system unifies the company’s metrics storage infrastructure, delivering higher ingestion throughput and lo...

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September 23, 2025 at 2:08 AM

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PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA — PlanetScale share.google/tyn0WSaSMFSh...

PlanetScale for Postgres is now GA — PlanetScale

PlanetScale for Postgres is now generally available.

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September 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM

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OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don’t share.google/TXnmfUimaAMz...

OpenTelemetry Collector: What It Is, When You Need It, and When You Don’t

A practical, no-fluff guide to understanding the OpenTelemetry Collector - what it does, how it works, real architecture patterns (with and without it), and how to decide if/when you should deploy one...

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September 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM

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🤔 What is Spec-Driven Development?

Spec-Driven Development flips the script on traditional software development.

Spec-Driven Development changes this: specifications become executable, directly generating working implementations rather than just guiding them

GitHub - github/spec-kit: 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development

💫 Toolkit to help you get started with Spec-Driven Development - github/spec-kit

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September 11, 2025 at 10:58 PM

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Introducing Strands Agents 1.0: Production-Ready Multi-Agent Orchestration Made Simple | Amazon Web Services

Today we are excited to announce version 1.0 of the Strands Agents SDK, marking a significant milestone in our journey to make building AI agents simple, reliable, and production-ready. Strands Agents...

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September 8, 2025 at 1:59 AM

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Kestra testimonials | Kestra

Today, we’re highlighting the large companies that already trust Kestra to orchestrate their most critical workflows. 🌍 From data pipelines to AI to infrastructure, they’ve chosen Kestra because it’s...

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September 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM

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Kestra testimonials | Kestra

Today, we’re highlighting the large companies that already trust Kestra to orchestrate their most critical workflows. 🌍 From data pipelines to AI to infrastructure, they’ve chosen Kestra because it’s...

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September 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM

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DocumentDB joins the Linux Foundation - Microsoft Open Source Blog

Learn how we’re carving out a path where document databases are open, interoperable, and standardized—built with flexibility and reliability.

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September 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM

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Challenges underlying the humble data join

Joins are a cornerstone of data wrangling, but are surprisingly challenging to build as UI-based operations. Get a behind the scenes look into why joins are hard, and how we handle them in Observable ...

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September 5, 2025 at 12:20 PM

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Memori - Multi-Agent Memory Engine

Open-Source Memory Engine for LLMs, AI Agents & Multi-Agent Systems. Enhance your AI applications with intelligent memory capabilities.

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September 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM

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AWS Founders of the Future: An Agent Optimized World with Crew AI | LinkedIn

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August 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM

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We just launched VS Code Insiders Podcast - the official podcast from the VS Code team! Join us as we sit down with the developers, product managers, and community contributors shaping the open… | V...

We just launched VS Code Insiders Podcast - the official podcast from the VS Code team! Join us as we sit down with the developers, product managers, and community contributors shaping the open sour...

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August 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM

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Open source web GIS just got a BIG upgrade: you can now use LLMs to work with an ESRI feature service, WFS, and spreadsheet 👇 We’ve just added three new ways to import data into Mundi. The first is… ...

Open source web GIS just got a BIG upgrade: you can now use LLMs to work with an ESRI feature service, WFS, and spreadsheet 👇 We’ve just added three new ways to import data into Mundi. The first is E...

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August 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM

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What is a grid cartogram?

Grid cartograms are thematic maps that represent spatial regions with simplified geometric shapes like squares or hexagons. In this overview, we introduce grid cartograms, highlight pros and cons of t...

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August 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM

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🦸 Powers & Abilities of Semantic Man | Mike Graham

🦸 Powers & Abilities of Semantic Man Master of Code, Wielder of Words, Champion of the Repo! Semantic Sight – With a single thought, Semantic Man scans the entire codebase, instantly pinpointing fun...

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August 12, 2025 at 1:35 PM

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AI is here. | Microsoft

AI is here. Deep dive what’s working, what’s next, and how to lead with AI across two days, 8 different sessions.

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August 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM

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Available today: GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot | Microsoft 365 Blog

Microsoft has launched GPT-5 in Microsoft 365 Copilot and Copilot Studio, featuring a system for more efficient problem-solving.

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August 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM

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🚀 Just released: Manning Publications Co. | Tomaz Bratanic

🚀 Just released: Manning Publications Co. Essential GraphRAG – a practical guide to combining Knowledge Graphs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)! with Oskar Hane with foreword from the great P...

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August 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM

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AI for data analysis | Observable

Discover more insights with interpretable and transparent AI in Observable Canvases.

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August 2, 2025 at 9:27 PM

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August 1, 2025 at 2:34 AM

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In this episode, Younes Jaaidi introduces Charted Coding — a Test-Driven workflow where you guide the AI

It’s not AI vs. TDD.
It’s TDD — with an agent in the loop.

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