cartero Monday, August 10, 2026 · No. 25881
Agentic Commerce and Payments

Podcast: The AI Tokenpocalypse Is Here

How companies are burning through their AI tokens; and the fake AI-generated flowers all over Etsy, eBay, and Amazon.

SRE

20+ hrs/week of firefighting vs. 2 hours of strategy: free webinar on DBA burnout (disclosure: I work at ManageEngine)

Full disclosure, since this sub rightly doesn't love vendor stuff dressed up as something else: I'm on the ManageEngine team, and I work with database/app monitoring side of things. I'm not a DBA and won't pretend to be one, just sharing something that's been landing well internally and figured it might be useful here too. Downvote/ignore if it's not your thing. One of the things that I came across was the fact that the DBAs and IT admins spent most of their work week on fixing database issue...

Kubernetes

Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks

Learn how Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS let you reverse cluster upgrades within seven days. This new feature provides a safety net for upgrade failures—no cluster rebuilds required—turning Kubernetes version upgrades into a reversible, low-risk operation.

AI Psychosis

Can AI Prevent Suicides?

A proposed framework would assess how AI chatbots detect and respond to users at risk of harming themselves.

Artificial Intelligence

Variance Reduction Below the Randomization Grain

Sergio Camelo, Caitlin Kearns, Matias Cersosimo, and Tilman DrerupAs artificial intelligence increases the velocity of engineering and science teams, experimental throughput is set to become a bottleneck for many product decisions. Many companies can now build faster than they can experiment, with queues of good ideas running the risk of not being tested because of lack of experimental capacity.This problem is particularly severe in marketplaces, where the presence of spillover and cannibali...

AI Inference

Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

Over the past several years, model capabilities and training dataset sizes have experienced exponential growth. During the past year or so, the time between new-frontier-model releases has gone down from months to weeks. Reliable and fast access to storage is important to both the speed and computational cost of this AI innovation. If AI is [...] Read More... The post Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale appeared first on Engineering at Meta.

Open Source

Rotman Lens

PostgreSQL

Ahsan Hadi: Introducing pg-healthcheck: PostgreSQL Health Diagnostics

After more than 20 years working with PostgreSQL, I keep seeing the same problems surface at the worst possible times - bloat that sneaks up on you, replication slots quietly holding back WAL, transaction ID wraparound that nobody caught in time, backups that silently stopped working weeks ago. There are also data and catalog corruption issues like TOAST table corruption or a mismatch between heap state and VM state causing problems with vacuum operations. What I always wanted was a single t...

Cloudflare

Unmasking the crawls with Attribution Business Insights

Cloudflare’s new Attribution Business Insights dashboard helps website owners understand crawler behavior, appetite, and potential value, fueling business-level conversations around crawl compensation.

Zero Trust Security

Your site, your rules: new AI traffic options for all customers

For our second Content Independence Day, we’re giving website owners finer options to manage AI traffic. Instead of a one-size-fits-all block, all customers can now easily distinguish and manage Search, Agent, and Training bots, alongside the new ability to protect ad-monetized pages.

Cloudflare

Making AI search smarter

Search is how we find nearly everything on the web — creators, merchants, answers. AI is rewriting the rules, leaving creators caught between staying discoverable in an agentic era and getting paid for their work. Today we're launching two initiatives to help.

Cloudflare

Content Independence Day, one year on: building the business model for the agentic Internet

One year after declaring Content Independence Day, a dynamic market for monetized content has officially emerged. In this report, we examine how the rise of autonomous AI agents is upending traditional search referrals and detail the new infrastructure required to support a sustainable web economy.