cartero Thursday, August 13, 2026 · No. 25967
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Gemini Omni

Redis

How dragonfly DB or Redis is different form persistable K.V. storage?

So as we know, databases like DragonflyDB can persist data on disk and also use modern async IO techniques like io_uring. Then why would someone choose a persistent key-value database/storage engine like FoundationDB, TiKV, ScyllaDB, or LMDB-style systems instead? What architectural or workload differences make those systems preferable over something like DragonflyDB with persistence enabled? Trying to understand the deeper storage-engine tradeoffs here. submitted by /u/ankush2324235 ...

Graph Databases

Scaling Airbnb’s identity graph with a unified knowledge graph infrastructure

How Airbnb shifts from PaaS to an internal knowledge graph infrastructure at scale.By: Lucen Zhao, Shukun Yang, Ashish JainKnowledge graphs offer a natural and powerful way to represent relationships between entities. Many real-world systems are fundamentally about connections.Airbnb’s identity graph captures relationships between users in a graph database. The identity graph serves aggregated insights that enable user identity resolution and relationship understanding. These capabilities...

AI Coding Tools

Maintainability sensors for coding agents

In her recent article about harness engineering for coding agent users, Birgitta Böckeler laid out a mental model for expanding a coding agent harness: a system of guides and sensors that increase the probability of good agent outputs and enable self-correction before issues reach human eyes. Birgitta has now started publishing an article where she walks though her experiences using sensors to keep a codebase maintainable. This part looks at static analysi...

Monitoring and Alerting

How Salesforce Built an AI Security Agent for Autonomous Threat Triage

In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Mor Levi, Vice President of Detection, Analysis and Response at Salesforce, who leads the teams responsible for enterprise cyber defense across 80,000 employees and an attack surface spanning infrastructure, platforms, and cloud environments. Explore how the team […] The post How Salesforce Built an AI Security Agent for Autonomous Threat Triage appeared fir...

PostgreSQL

Christophe Pettus: Patch PgBouncer Today

PgBouncer 1.25.2 shipped a patch for a pre-authentication crash (CVE-2026-6664). Any TCP connection can take down your pooler. Patch this week.

Diffusion Models

How Synthesia optimizes generative AI video inference on Amazon EC2 G7e instances

This post introduces a video decoding optimization technique that we have ideated in collaboration with Synthesia Research Engineering team, which we call Asynchronous Frame Generation Pipeline. Adopting this technique allows you to overlap GPU compute, device-to-host (D2H) data transfer, and host-side post-processing. In this post, we apply this technique to the VAE decoder of a Wan video generation model as an example, where our benchmarks on G7e show increased GPU kernel utilization from 8...

Cloudflare

Announcing Claude Managed Agents on Cloudflare

Cloudflare has integrated with Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents to provide a fast, isolated execution environment for autonomous code delivery. This means builders can scale agent workflows globally while strictly controlling access to private backends and easily customizing their agent’s tools and runtimes.

Uber

The New Realities of EM Lyfe

A fascinating thing is happening. EMs are saying it’s better to be an IC. ICs think being an EM is where it’s at. This is part of the AI shift. The industry seems to be in chaos, and wherever you are, somewhere else seems better. But below that, it’s not just the job that’s changing. […]

AI Coding Tools

AI Coding Feels Like Using an Unreliable Compiler

AI Coding Feels Like Using an Unreliable Compiler Every developer I know is asking roughly the same questions about LLMs. Yes, there are LLM-fanatics and LLM-skeptics, but most are LLM-confused: sometimes LLMs seem amazing and sometimes they seem so dumb one wonders why we are using them in the first place. So we keep asking […] The post AI Coding Feels Like Using an Unreliable Compiler appeared first on Strumenta.

Agentic Commerce and Payments

Understanding the modern cybercrime landscape

Throughout 2025, HPE observed significant changes in how cybercriminals operate. Analyzing real-world threats, our HPE Threat Labs highlighted an industrialization of the cyber criminals’ methods in its new In the Wild Report, enabling greater scale, speed and structure in their campaigns. They typically use automation and AI to exploit longstanding vulnerabilities, and many have adopted…

X / Twitter

Barely Treading Water

Carolyn, my chief of staff, sat on the couch as I ran into my office. The Palo Alto building wasn’t built for tech; it’d been adapted to support the use case over the years. My office was in the center of the building, which had an inner atrium. Way too many windows. Maybe a salon?… more

xAI

The Download: Musk v. Altman, smart glasses for warfare, and Google I/O

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why Elon Musk lost his suit against OpenAI Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against OpenAI, which centered on whether the company breached its founding contract as a nonprofit. A…