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OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Codex Reach General Availability on Amazon Bedrock
OpenAI's GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, and Codex are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, one month after OpenAI revised its exclusive Azure arrangement. Pricing matches OpenAI's direct rates with usage counting toward AWS commitments. Codex shifts to pay-per-token billing with no seat fees. GPT-5.4 is the first OpenAI model available in AWS GovCloud.
By Steef-Jan WiggersPresentation: Building and Scaling UI Systems for Internal Tools at Meta
Cindy Zhang discusses the evolution of XDS, a unified UI system powering 10,000+ internal tools. She shares actionable insights for architects and engineering leaders on managing large-scale community contributions, executing safe monorepo refactors using JS AST and AI codemods, mitigating breaking changes via feature flags, and expanding UI libraries into full-stack platform systems.
By Cindy ZhangMicrosoft Open-Sources PostgreSQL Extension for In-Database Durable Execution
Recently open-sourced by Microsoft, pg_durable is a PostgreSQL extension that enables durable workflows to run natively inside the database, eliminating the need for external orchestration systems.
By Sergio De SimonePresentation: Beyond Prompting: Context Engineering and Memory Management for AI Systems at Scale
Adi Polak discusses the architecture required to transition from stateless prompts to state-aware, context-rich AI agents. Drawing on 15 years in distributed systems, she shares how engineering leaders can leverage Apache Kafka and Flink for real-time stream processing, dynamic memory tiering, and tool orchestration via MCP to solve token limits, cost spikes, and latency bottlenecks.
By Adi PolakAzure API Management Ships Unified Model API and MCP Content Safety at Build 2026
Azure API Management shipped a Unified Model API that lets clients speak one format while APIM transforms requests to Anthropic, Vertex AI, and other backends. Content safety policies now cover MCP tool calls and Agent-to-Agent payloads alongside LLM traffic. Token metrics expanded to track reasoning, cached, and audio tokens across providers.
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