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AWS has recently made its managed Model Context Protocol (MCP) server generally available, giving AI coding agents controlled access to AWS APIs, documentation, and operational workflows through a standard interface. It provides a safer and more auditable way to connect AI agents to AWS services without handing over broad credentials.
By Renato Losio
At the Apache Iceberg Summit last month, Google announced new interoperability features for Apache Iceberg in BigQuery. The preview of the serverless Iceberg REST catalog lets teams create, update, and query the same Apache Iceberg tables in BigQuery and in engines like Spark, Flink, and Trino without duplicating data.
By Renato Losio
Uber updates its Uber Eats Home Feed recommendation system using near real-time user sequence features and a Generative Recommender model. The system evolves from hand-crafted features to transformer-based sequence modeling, reduces feature freshness from 24 hours to seconds, and shifts from pointwise scoring to listwise GenRec for improved contextual ranking and real-time personalization.
By Leela Kumili
InfoQ has launched a five-week online AI Engineering certification for senior practitioners working on production AI systems, covering RAG, agents, AI platforms, evals, reliability, and operational trade-offs.
By Artenisa Chatziou
Discord has detailed how it rebuilt its database operations around a new internal orchestration framework called the Scylla Control Plane (SCP), enabling its small infrastructure team to automate large-scale ScyllaDB cluster management tasks that previously took days of manual work.
By Craig Risi
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