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Chris DiBona is the director of open source at Google, and he's been taking a big part in the open source and Free software ecosystem for a very long time--not least in his role with Google's Summer of Code. He recently posted on Twitter what he calls "a little rant" about software licensing -- well worth reading the whole (short!) thing.
Upshot: Be cautious and humble in…
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Tiger Data, the company behind TimescaleDB, has launched Agentic Postgres, a Postgres-based database designed for both AI agents and developers. It extends Postgres with fast forking, an MCP server, native BM25 and vector search, and includes a CLI for terminal access.
By Sergio De Simone
OpenAI recently released upgrades to their GPT-5 model. GPT‑5.1 Instant, the default chat model, has improvements to instruction following. GPT‑5.1 Thinking, the reasoning model, is faster and gives more understandable responses. GPT‑5.1-Codex-Max, the coding model, is trained to use compaction to perform long-running tasks.
By Anthony Alford
Replit has introduced Replit AI Integrations, a feature that lets users select third-party models directly inside the IDE and automatically generate the code needed to run inference.
By Daniel Dominguez
AWS has launched Database Savings Plans, allowing customers to cut database costs by up to 35% with a commitment to consistent usage. This feature enhances flexibility during migrations and expansions across AWS Regions. Positive community feedback highlights its potential impact on cost efficiency and future direction for database commitments.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Overload protection is often overlooked in platform engineering, leaving teams to create inconsistent, fragile fixes. Centralized rate limits, quotas, adaptive controls, and clear visibility give services predictable ways to handle traffic spikes, reduce reliability debt, and prevent cascading failures across systems.
By Gaurav Nanda, Tapan Manaktala
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Hi Tim and welcome to Codetown!