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Created by Michael Levin Dec 18, 2008 at 6:56pm. Last updated by Michael Levin May 4, 2018.
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Google Cloud recently unveiled broad support for the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) in Cloud Monitoring, marking a step toward unifying telemetry collection across its observability stack.
By Craig Risi
AWS launched Agent Plugins for AWS, providing AI coding agents with specialized deployment skills. The initial deploy-on-aws plugin transforms workflows by accepting commands like "deploy to AWS" and generating complete pipelines with architecture recommendations, cost estimates, and infrastructure code. Supported in Claude Code and Cursor, AWS claims 10-minute deployments versus hours manually.
By Steef-Jan Wiggers
Google Cloud has optimised GKE's node pool auto-creation, significantly cutting "Time to Ready" for massive clusters. By improving control plane communication and request batching, GKE now provisions resources faster, rivalling tools like Karpenter. The update enhances scaling reliability and stability for high-volume AI and batch workloads, automatically rolling out across supported versions.
By Mark Silvester
GitHub has released its yearly look at open-source trends. They used data from the Octoverse 2025 report to help the open-source community get ready for the coming year. The picture that emerges is one of extraordinary scale and the structural strains that come with it.
By Claudio Masolo
Uber’s HiveSync team optimized Hadoop Distcp to handle multi-petabyte replication across hybrid cloud and on-premise data lakes. Enhancements include task parallelization, Uber jobs for small transfers, and improved observability, enabling 5x replication capacity and seamless on-premise-to-cloud migration.
By Leela Kumili
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