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Amazon has announced several updates for Aurora DSQL, focusing on usability, integrations, and developer tooling. The improvements include a new interactive Aurora DSQL Playground that lets developers explore and experiment with the database directly in the browser, without registration or associated costs.
By Renato Losio
In her QCon London keynote, Birgitta Böckeler, AI-Coding lead at Thoughtworks, reflected on the changes in the AI coding space over the past year. She emphasised a shift from vibe coding to using autonomous coding agents or swarms of agents. According to her, two major concerns in the field are the worsening security landscape and the rising costs of agent-based development.
By Olimpiu Pop
Peter Morgan introduced Tansu at QCon London, an open-source, Kafka-compatible, stateless, leaderless broker that scales to zero, with pluggable storage (S3, SQLite, Postgres), broker-side schema validation, and direct writes to Iceberg and Delta Lake. Written in Rust, it uses 20MB of RAM and starts in 10 milliseconds.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Sonatype Guide is a real-time guardrail system that sits between AI coding tools and the open-source ecosystem, ensuring AI-generated code uses safe, valid, and maintainable dependencies.
By Sergio De Simone
Lesley Cordero discusses platform engineering as a practice for driving sociotechnical change and organizational sustainability. She explains the "pendulum of tension" between developer experience and reliability, emphasizing that architectural patterns must solve for organizational complexity. She shares a leadership framework for moving from reactive heroism to proactive stewardship.
By Lesley Cordero
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