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Happy 10th year, JCertif!
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QCon London 2026: Tools That Enable the Next 1B Developers
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By Leela KumiliPodcast: [Video Podcast] Agentic Systems Without Chaos: Early Operating Models for Autonomous Agents
In this episode, Shweta Vohra and Joseph Stein explore what changes when software systems start planning, acting, and making decisions on their own. The conversation distinguishes truly agentic use cases from traditional automation and looks at how architects and engineers should think about boundaries, orchestration, and system design in this new environment.
By Joseph SteinAWS Load Balancer Controller Reaches GA with Kubernetes Gateway API Support
AWS shipped GA support for Kubernetes Gateway API in its Load Balancer Controller, dumping annotation-based configuration for type-safe CRDs with proper validation. The release handles both L4 (TCP/UDP via NLB) and L7 (HTTP/gRPC via ALB) routing through the Gateway API spec. Teams get cross-namespace routing, automatic certificate discovery, and role separation without cluster-admin permissions.
By Steef-Jan WiggersPresentation: Panel: Security Against Modern Threats
The panelists discuss the dramatic escalation of software supply chain threats, from typosquatting to AI-generated vulnerabilities. They explain how to move beyond basic scanning by adopting a zero trust mindset toward CI/CD pipelines and external dependencies.
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Hi Derek! How's it going way out there in the wild west? Give us an update and let us know what you're working on (via a blog post) and how the heck you're doing! All the best, Michael
Derek - You'll love the new Blackberry app: Pandora. And, if you haven't heard, the last two Swampcasts are all about The Music Genome Project. That's Tom Conrad in the photo above, CTO of Pandora. He's on Twitter, too BTW.Cheers, Michael