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12 Feb

Kristopher Sandoval 8 min read

Model Context Protocol (MCP) has made huge waves in the industry as of late. Since MCP makes it incredibly easy to point agentic implementations towards tools and resources, it’s been used for everything from context-driven customer service tools to order fulfillment backends. One of the most interesting use cases, and one that is currently emerging ...

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11 Feb

Alberto Sigismondi 2 min read

Today, we are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of the Heroku GitHub Enterprise Server Integration. For our Enterprise customers, the bridge between code and production must be more than just convenient. It must be resilient, secure, and governed at scale. While our legacy OAuth integration served us well, the modern security landscape demands […] The post Heroku and…

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Tianqi Zhang, Eric Imasogie, Pieter de Bruin 5 min read

When we launched the Microsoft Learn Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server in June 2025, our goal was simple: make it effortless for AI agents to use trusted, up-to-date Microsoft Learn documentation. GitHub Copilot and other agents are increasingly common, and they need to be able to ground responses just like humans with browsers do. Learn […] The post How we…

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McKenna Barlow 6 min read

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET is now available in Visual Studio 18.3, offering AI-powered tools to quickly create, build, and run unit tests. With flexible prompts and full IDE integration, it supports testing from single methods to entire solutions, helping reduce repetitive tasks and speed up feedback. Try it and share your feedback to shape its future. The post GitHub…

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WHAT IT IS The rise of agentic software development means code is being written, reviewed, and shipped faster than ever before across the entire industry. It also means that testing frameworks need to evolve for this rapidly changing landscape. Faster development demands faster testing that can catch bugs as they land in a codebase, without [...] Read More... The post…

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Kazuaki Okumura,Mike White,Kevin Altschuler,Facundo Agriel,Ishan Mishra,Eric Wang,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Dmitriy Meyerzon,Hicham Badri,Appu Shaji,Craig Wilhite 4 min read

From Claude Code to Cursor, we're big adopters of AI coding tools at Dropbox. The early results have been promising, but there are still a lot of open questions about how to work with these tools most effectively and where they can have the most impact. To push this conversation forward, we hosted an executive roundtable at our San Francisco…

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Janet Wagner 6 min read

Nothing frustrates a user more than a slow or non-responsive website or application. This is especially true in ecommerce, where slow-loading pages lead to high bounce rates and lower conversion rates. Often, the hidden culprit behind delays is a high-latency API. Many app developers integrate multiple third-party APIs, cumulatively adding more latency. As more APIs ...

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Imagine you are testing a TodoMVC application, and you need to complete all items. You simply click every checkbox and confirm the application preserves the "0 todos left" state. Normally everything goes well: But sometimes a weird thing happens: one or more checkboxes remain unchecked! 📺 Watch the examples in this blog post explained in my video. You start looking…

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At the end of last year, we decided to try something new: a challenge that would run alongside Advent of Code, where we asked the community to show us how they could design hardware to solve the same problems. We had no idea what level of participation to expect, but we received a huge number of submissions, many of which…

10 Feb

Jin Kim 6 min read

Docker Hardened Images are now free, covering Alpine, Debian, and over 1,000 images including databases, runtimes, and message buses. For security teams, this changes the economics of container vulnerability management. DHI includes security fixes from Docker’s security team, which simplifies security response. Platform teams can pull the patched base image and redeploy quickly. But free...

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12 min read

Imagine you built a note-taking app. It’s so successful that LargeCorp, an aptly named large enterprise corporation, signed on as a customer. To make it a power tool for your enterprise customers, you need to allow your app to integrate with other productivity tools, such as turning a note into a task in a to-do app. While common integration patterns…

9 Feb

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We’re sharing details of the role backend aggregation (BAG) plays in building Meta’s gigawatt-scale AI clusters like Prometheus. BAG allows us to seamlessly connect thousands of GPUs across multiple data centers and regions. Our BAG implementation is connecting two different network fabrics – Disaggregated Schedule Fabric (DSF) and Non-Scheduled Fabric (NSF). Once it’s complete our AI [...] Read More... The…

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When customers hit issues in production, it can be an effort to locally reproduce them, especially when external sources are involved. Reproducing issues is useful not just to figure out the root cause, but also to verify the fix and add a regression test. The newly introduced workload capture & replay tooling records a Materialize instance’s state as well as…

Stephen Blum 1 min read

PubNub Agent Skills make it easy for any AI coding assistant to become a real-time PubNub expert, giving developers six installable skills (via Tessl or Vercel Skills CLI) that provide guided patterns, best practices, and production-ready code for core use cases like pub/sub messaging, presence, serverless functions, security, chat, and large-scale real-time applications.

8 Feb

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He used to understand guilt the way a farmer understands crops. Now he has to use drugs to sleep and drugs to...

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That is the half-life of knowledge in computer science and software engineering - the time it takes for half of what you know to be replaced by better tools, approaches, or understanding. For an engineering degree earned in 1930, the half-life was roughly 35 years. By 1960, it had dropped to about a decade.

7 Feb

Amit Merchant 5 min read

The Laravel team recently released the Laravel AI SDK that provides a simple and elegant way to integrate AI capabilities into your Laravel applications. The SDK offers a clean and intuitive API that allows developers to easily interact with AI models and services. Essentially, the Laravel AI SDK abstracts away the complexities of working with AI models (such as OpenAI,…

6 Feb

Nitin T Bhat 1 min read

Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means […] The post An Update…

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MapTiler (Jachym Cepicky) 1 min read

Our latest Geocoding update adds 3.8M+ new business POIs and improves search accuracy for natural landforms and cross-border features; all with zero integration changes.

5 Feb

Dan Berezin Stelzer 4 min read

Open source components power most modern applications. A new generation of hardened container images can establish a more secure foundation, but even with hardened images, vulnerability scanners often return dozens or hundreds of CVEs with little prioritization. This noise slows teams down and complicates security triage. The VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange) standard addresses the problem...

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Thumbtack People Team 3 min read

A Q&A with Brett Shouse, Senior Software Engineer. As an engineer, what drew you to Thumbtack? I joined Thumbtack in March of 2025, and from day one it’s felt like the right place to grow, build, and make a real impact. I was ready for a fresh challenge and wanted to help evolve a business that truly aligned with my…

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Gabrielė Zakaitienė 6 min read

Work is changing fast – new tools, new ways of teaming up, and new expectations. The skills that got us here won’t always get us where we’re going. At Hostinger, we’re learning… The post Future readiness: Are you hiring for today – or for what’s next? appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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Kristopher Sandoval 9 min read

Building API-first is an incredibly powerful strategy — it brings a ton of value to organizations seeking to make their data and APIs more consumable, more useful, and more valuable. Interestingly, however, it seems like API-first has another huge benefit: AI-first. So what does it mean to be API-first, and what benefits does this carry ...

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Daisy Mølving 4 min read

This is Part 1 in our blog series on how the design process works alongside Agile methodology to produce results within an integrated team. Updated 2/5/2026. Originally published 2/2/2024 When it comes to developing new software, not every designer approaches the task the same way. While some use a design thinking approach, looking at the tasks from a user perspective,…

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For a long time I was skeptical of LLMs—whenever I reached for them I was disappointed by the results. Last year I tried Copilot and Cursor to tweak a game I’d built, and neither generated working changes. At a previous job I tried Gemini to outline product briefs and generate wireframes, but ended up throwing them all away. Every time…

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GPT‑5.3-Codex is the most capable agentic coding model to date, combining the frontier coding performance of GPT‑5.2-Codex with the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT‑5.2.

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4 Feb

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We’re sharing a novel approach to enabling cross-device passkey authentication for devices with inaccessible displays (like XR devices). Our approach bypasses the use of QR codes and enables cross-device authentication without the need for an on-device display, while still complying with all trust and proximity requirements. This approach builds on work done by the FIDO [...] Read More... The post…

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Yiwen Xu 4 min read

We’re excited to announce that the remote Atlassian Rovo MCP server is now available in Docker’s MCP Catalog and Toolkit, making it easier than ever to connect AI assistants to Jira and Confluence. With just a few clicks, technical teams can use their favorite AI agents to create and update Jira issues, epics, and Confluence...

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Adriano Mota 6 min read

It is no longer a secret that AI and APIs are intimately connected. Whether it’s building foundational infrastructure or powering MCP servers, APIs are the essential building blocks. However, for AI to deliver a positive impact, these APIs require rigorous governance and management. APIs serve as the technical key to an AI initiative and provide ...

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Jeff Atwood 8 min read

It's been a year since I invited Americans to join us in a pledge to Share the American Dream: 1. Support organizations you feel are effectively helping those most in need across America right now. 2. Within the next five years, also contribute public dedications

Srini Sekaran 4 min read

Every time execution models change, security frameworks need to change with them. Agents force the next shift. The Unattended Laptop Problem No developer would leave their laptop unattended and unlocked. The risk is obvious. A developer laptop has root-level access to production systems, repositories, databases, credentials, and APIs. If someone sat down and started using...

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blog.muffn.io (muffn_) 1 min read

🎬 Intro # Pocket ID is a lightweight, self-hosted OIDC provider that’s perfect for homelabs. It’s simple, it’s clean, and it doesn’t try to be everything to everyone. What it doesn’t have, however, is SCIM support and that’s where things get a bit spicy when integrating with vCenter Server.

3 Feb

James Gill 3 min read

Today marks a huge milestone — GoSquared is 20 years old. Just two short decades ago we set out on a... The post GoSquared turns 20 appeared first on GoSquared Blog.

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J Simpson 7 min read

Imagine you’re a developer working with multiple AI agents based on large language models (LLMs). On Monday morning, your client asks you to connect an AI coding assistant to access GitHub issues, Jira tickets, and internal documentation via MCP-powered tools. That’s where a centralized MCP tool registry comes into play. Instead of spending hours browsing ...

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Saulius Lazaravičius 2 min read

What happened and what was affected? On December 1, 2025, we identified suspicious activity on one of our servers where our clients’ websites were hosted. After investigation, … The post Hostinger server unauthorized access case: What happened with Notepad++ and what measures we took to resolve it appeared first on Hostinger Blog.

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ALEX BRADEN, SENIOR FULL-STACK DEVELOPER @ TOPTAL 1 min read

Laravel 12 modernizes API development with cleaner syntax, streamlined tooling, and developer-first conventions. Learn to build, secure, and test RESTful APIs with best practices and minimal setup.

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Discover the Sora feed philosophy—built to spark creativity, foster connections, and keep experiences safe with personalized recommendations, parental controls, and strong guardrails.

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2 Feb

Matthew Green 12 min read

It’s not every day that we see mainstream media get excited about encryption apps! For that reason, the past several days have been fascinating, since we’ve been given not one but several unusual stories about the encryption used in WhatsApp. Or more accurately, if you read the story, a pretty wild allegation that the widely-used … Continue reading WhatsApp Encryption,…

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Matthew Pennell 8 min read

The necessity of imperfection: Designing for distributed ownership in Backstage Imagine an internal engineering platform — tooling that is accessed by thousands of developers every day — where every new feature, every piece of critical functionality, is designed, built and maintained by a different, autonomous team. For years, that was the reality of our internal tooling at Booking.com; a productive,…

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