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In October 2014, a developer wrote to a PostgreSQL mailing list with a problem. His employer’s open source office required a signed contributor license agreement before he could contribute, and he could not find PostgreSQL’s. Tom Lane answered: There are no…

Key Takeaways Signal 1 (SIGHUP) normally tells PostgreSQL to reload its configuration. A log line saying a process was terminated by signal 1 means that process didn’t handle the signal and died from it. received SIGHUP, reloading configuration files…

The buffers article followed an 8KB page from disk into shared memory and back. What it didn't do is name the file. Every page that passes through the buffer pool is block number N of some file under the data directory, and the file has a naming scheme, a s…

Many readers will be aware that an unusually high number of features have been reverted from the PostgreSQL 19 branch after the beta period began. Having some reverts is not unusual, maybe one per cycle could be expected. But this time around, about 8 to 10…

Tom Lane deleted `array_nulls` in PostgreSQL 20, but `pg_dump` never set it, so restores into databases with it disabled silently corrupt text arrays. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)

Most slow queries I have looked at are not doing anything clever. They are doing extra work that nobody asked for, because one word in the SQL told PostgreSQL to. I took five of those words and measured each one against the version without it, on the same t…

On-demand CPU and memory profiling for Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects is now available. Now you can generate interactive flamegraphs directly in production to quickly track down memory leaks and performance bottlenecks.

The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to radically simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects, so developers can use the same primitives in more places.

Discover how Sophos uses OpenAI’s Daybreak to cut cyber-threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases while preserving human oversight.

Discover how Snyk transformed an internal support agent into Snyk Assist, a customer-facing AI feature powered by LangChain, LangGraph, and LangSmith.

Sibos 2026 in Miami featured several 'Big Issue Debate' sessions, but one with an unwieldy name captured the attention of many attendees: 'Trust under pressure: resilience in a world where compromise must be assumed and prepared for.'

The UK's financial watchdog has stepped up its enforcement of illegal 'finfluencer' promotions, resulting in a 7,300% increase in actions between 2023 and 2025.

Nivo has today launched Lender Collect, an AI assistant that coordinates a lending case from the first broker email through evidence gathering, underwriting preparation and the conditions that follow the lender's decision.

Cavero Secure, a pioneer in continuous identity security and post-quantum trust architectures, are announcing a breakthrough approach to autonomous AI governance with the launch of its CaveroCTX™ protocol.

Substantive Research, the research and market data discovery and pricing analytics provider, today publishes the findings of its latest survey into investment research spending and consumption, highlighting how research spending continues to flatline despit…

CaixaBank has announced an expanded strategic agreement with Google Cloud to strengthen its technological capabilities and accelerate the integration of AI, data management and cloud infrastructure across its business.

Banks in the EU and UK are under pressure to demonstrate their operational readiness for the upcoming move to next day settlement, with just one year to go before the deadline for T+1.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the main banking regulator in the US, has issued a $350m civil money penalty against American Express National Bank for deficiencies in its anti-money laundering (AML) and bank secrecy act (BSA) processes.

Stablecoin payments orchestration service Anyflo has emerged from stealth with news that it has acquired bitcoin lending platform Native.

DailyPay, the leader in On-Demand Pay, announced a $200 million asset-backed securitisation (ABS) of its On-Demand Pay receivables.

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Assets in Australia’s superannuation system are poised to approach A$7 trillion by 2035 vs. A$3.8 trillion in June, our model suggests.

Our podcast mini-series on ‘Crypto under the FCA’ examines the FCA’s highly anticipated policy statements published on June 30, 2026, which collectively shape the new regulatory regime for cryptoassets in the United Kingdom. In this e…

On 9 October 2026, the Economic and Financial Affairs (ECOFIN) Council agreed on the key elements of the Market Integration and Supervision (MISP) package. The adoption of the negotiating position follows nine months of negotiations between Member States on…

On 8 October 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a blog on how strong compliance functions can support trusted corporate finance markets, this follows on from a survey the FCA had conducted, which it considers found encouraging practice ac…

Yay, “That time of the year”™ again soon 🎉 This time maybe with a bit more fuzz / excitement / anxiety as usual - due to various obstacles surrounding the release as detailed in a few recent posts by various people. Not going into the “Is AI to blame or...

On September 30, AWS announced that Aurora PostgreSQL can now query Apache Iceberg and Parquet data directly. That brings the number of things a vendor might mean by “Postgres reads Iceberg” to at least four, and they have about as much in common as the fou…

Performance engineering inside a database project is usually private. Teams run internal workloads, investigate changes, fix issues, and move on. The knowledge stays inside the company, and the outside world only sees a benchmark graph or a release note. &#…

New ‘App store of open source’ is one stop shop serving the fast-growing MariaDB community’s needs for applications, developer tools, cloud platforms and projects. The MariaDB Foundation today announces the MariaDB Server Ecosystem Hub has…

MUFG Bank standardized overseas back-office procedures across roughly 30 countries by grounding generative AI in a structured domain model on Amazon Neptune and Amazon Bedrock. Its AI Flowchart application is expected to cut the system-development effort be…

We redesigned Cloudflare Radar to make real-time global traffic and outage data accessible to a wider audience - including journalists, less technical researchers, and everyday users. By introducing an interactive map and standardized components, we simplif…

As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appear…

By Siddharth Sharma, Suvhrajit Basak, Kusum Dhalia, and Nabeel Qaiser. Your compute bill keeps climbing, and your Spark workloads keep succeeding. Successful execution tells you the configuration worked. It does not tell you how much of the allocated capaci…

Across recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle turns specialist knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows with ChatGPT Work and Codex.

With GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT‑Image‑2.5, Pollo AI helps creators turn bold ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.

LegalOn cut estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matched Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and managed budgets strategically.

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations that used false-front journalists and a think tank to spread geopolitical messaging.

Build an agent that pays for real purchases. Restock runs in Slack on Managed Deep Agents and pays with Stripe's Link over the Machine Payments Protocol.

Deep Agents now lets you bind tools to skills, pin skills at runtime, and reload skills mid-thread, so agents with expansive skill repositories stay context-efficient and effective.

LangChain introduces LangSmith Fine-Tuning and SmithTune, a CLI built for post-training models. Train specialized models without building data pipelines by hand.

Managed Deep Agents is the simplest way to build, deploy, and run agents in production. The 0.8 release adds support for user-owned credentials, user-level memory, HTTP channels, file transfer in Slack and a pre-built tool for web search.

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments gives AI agents a managed way to pay for services on demand, with spending limits enforced by the infrastructure. See how Incarna's agents pay BlockRun for model inference one request at a time over x402, cutting the work o…

A reference architecture for securely sharing one Amazon SageMaker HyperPod EKS cluster across multiple teams, using AWS IAM Identity Center for authentication, per-team SageMaker Domains and Kubernetes namespaces for isolation, HyperPod Task Governance for…

Banks in Singapore must seek an independent review of any forthcoming AI projects before implementation, according to new rules.

Many global currency and trade experts have been wondering for a while now whether the US dollar might lose its luster as the world’s reserve or preferred cross-border payments and trade or asset management settlement currency. But a panel of bankers and fo…

Mastercard is introducing offline payment requirements that mean that from 2027 Europeans will be able to pay during power and network outages.

European Pay by Bank network TrueLayer has raised $27 million in investment led by Italy's CDP Venture Capital.

Discover five charts for November that highlight the trends driving markets, including corporate bonds, McDonald’s, ETF allocations, junk debt and 24-hour trading.

Could US tariffs and the Iran war push China and India closer together? Explore why Xi and Modi may seek deeper economic ties even as strategic rivalry and security concerns limit cooperation.

India’s growth potential is rising as trade integration, manufacturing and AI-driven productivity accelerate. Learn why Bloomberg Economics expects growth to average 7.9% through 2035.

Commodities have been among the strongest-performing asset classes in 2026 amid inflation, supply and weather disruptions, and geopolitical uncertainty. The Bloomberg Commodity Index rose 33% through the first three quarters.

How can firms prepare for U.S. Treasury central clearing? Explore the evolving workflows ahead of cash and repo clearing deadlines.

IIMB began using the Bloomberg Terminal in 2005. In 2015, it established a dedicated Bloomberg Finance Lab to expand access across teaching, research and executive education.

Asia’s private wealth industry is building further momentum, according to the latest survey from Bloomberg Intelligence. Forty percent of respondents expect net new money to grow by 10% or more annually over the next five years.

On 8 October 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper in relation to fair redemption terms for authorised funds investing in illiquid assets (CP26/35). Background The FCA sets out that it has worked with the International O…

On 30 September 2026, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) issued a consultation paper and draft Prudential Standard SPS 530 Investment Governance for consultation. Background The policy reform in the consultation paper is the next phase of…

On 30 September 2026, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) issued ASIC Corporations (Managed Discretionary Account Services) Instrument 2026/720 which replaces ASIC Corporations (Managed Discretionary Account Services) Instrument 2016…

If your Laravel application runs on MariaDB, you can add semantic search to it without a second database, an external vector service or an extra package. … Continue reading \"Laravel 13 now supports MariaDB Vector natively\" Laravel 13 now supports Ma…

Part 2 of migrating SSIS packages to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL tackles the complex packages. Learn how to replace SSIS control flow, Foreach Loop Containers, and Script Tasks with AWS Step Functions state machines, Map and Parallel states, and Lambda, and sc…

Migrating SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages is one of the more complex parts of moving from SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. In Part 1 of this two-part series, learn how to filter, categorize, and simplify your SSIS portfolio using nati…

Cloudflare Managed Defense uses a team of specialized AI agents built on Workers and global network telemetry to analyze security alerts. By separating deterministic evidence collection from model inference, the system delivers grounded recommendations to M…

Developers aren’t becoming more careless; they’re being outpaced. The tools that let developers create more software should also take on more of the work of protecting it. The post Secret protection must scale with software appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

College Planner is coming to ChatGPT for Teens to help students manage college applications, alongside new flashcards, quizzes, and a teen AI council.

Radisson partnered with Accenture to build a ChatGPT plugin using OpenAI technology, helping travelers find, compare, and book hotels while planning their trips.

GPT‑6 is rolling out globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, delivering faster responses with visuals and interactive experiences you can explore and use directly.

LangChain just released new capabilities in Managed Deep Agents. Agents can now schedule follow-ups, reconfigure themselves on every run, and react to Slack messages.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work, and costs around 75% less tha…

Enterprise RAG unlocks insights from knowledge sources like SharePoint, Google Drive, and Confluence, but those sources carry complex permissions. Learn how Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases enforce document-level access controls in real time,…

The RPA-era ROI model misses most of the value agentic automation creates. This post gives AI center of excellence leaders a framework to size the full value of agents across time savings, exception handling, decision quality, and maintenance economics, and…

Qlik built Qlik Answers on Amazon Bedrock to give its 40,000+ customers grounded, sourced answers across structured and unstructured enterprise data. Learn how a layered, multi-agent architecture with cross-Region inference and Amazon Bedrock Guardrails del…

AWS DevOps Agent can diagnose production incidents but is kept in observe-and-report mode so it does not change resources directly. This post shows how to use AWS Lambda Durable Functions, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon Bedrock to turn its investigation sum…

The biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't awareness. It's the gap between talking about AI and building with it. Here's the playbook we used to turn non-technical, customer-facing professionals into confident AI builders in six weeks, and how your organizati…

Training AI agents with reinforcement learning can be challenging because their tools, context, and decision-making are managed by complex frameworks. Agent Lightning connects existing agents to RL training, making it easier to improve them without rebuildi…

On 7 October 2026, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a Public Statement regarding an extended transitional period for third-country central securities depositories (CSDs). Background CSDs established in a country outside of the Eur…

On 7 October 2026, the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) issued a consultation paper on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) on the anti-money laundering / countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) central database under Article 11(6) of th…

MariaDB Foundation welcomes Frappe as a Silver Sponsor. Frappe builds open-source software for running organisations, including ERPNext, Frappe HR and Frappe CRM. Its applications are built on Frappe Framework, where MariaDB is the default database. ……

Configure AWS DMS change data capture (CDC) from a self-managed SQL Server source without granting sysadmin to the endpoint login. This least-privilege pattern uses certificate-signed wrapper procedures, granular permissions, and AWS Secrets Manager to meet…

When an Amazon Neptune workload needs resilience beyond a single cluster, this post presents a decision framework that maps availability targets to Neptune architectural patterns, from Multi-AZ and Global Database to write-ahead logs and caching, based on y…

In Linux, cgroups (control groups) are a kernel feature used for managing system resources. Kubernetes uses cgroups to allocate resources like CPU and memory to containers, ensuring that applications run smoothly without interfering with each other. With th…

On October 11, 2026, the DNS root switches to a new key-signing key (KSK-2024). Learn what this means for you, and how RFC 8509 trust anchor sentinels allow you to test whether your DNS resolver is ready for the rollover.

We're rebuilding GitHub's Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development. The post Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Meta’s public time service now speaks NTS (Network Time Security, RFC 8915) at nts.meta.com. Packets are authenticated, so a device can verify the time came from us and was not modified on the way. Our NTS servers hold no per-client state. Cookie keys are d…

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science-but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle comp…

Troubleshooting a multi-service, MWAA-orchestrated ETL pipeline often means hunting across scattered Amazon CloudWatch log groups. This post shows how to centralize your ETL logs in Amazon OpenSearch Service and query them in plain language through an MCP s…

Learn how to pair DuckDB with AWS Glue 6.0 to run SQL-centric ETL on a single worker, reading Parquet from Amazon S3 and writing Apache Iceberg tables to Amazon S3 Tables. This post walks through a complete, runnable example and compares measured cost and r…

Amazon EMR 8.1.0 adds multi-catalog support through the RedirectingSessionCatalog, so you can query Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, and Hive tables through a single catalog and join data across AWS accounts without copying it. This post shows how to put these ca…

The Test Automation Framework (TAF) was designed so that database makers themselves could create a plugin and integrate their database engine directly into the framework. TAF provides the structure — … Continue reading \"MariaDB Foundation Adds…

I always enjoy real production stories where MariaDB is used in demanding environments and the people involved are willing to share the architecture, the challenges, and the decisions made along the way. … Continue reading \"Migrating a 500 GB Product…

Migrating SQL Server Full-Text Search to Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is one of the trickier parts of a migration. This post presents a six-checkpoint decision tree to assess whether your Full-Text Search workload can move to Babelfish, what migra…

Amagi built a Global Metadata Store on Amazon Neptune to model billions of interconnected media metadata relationships. Learn how their RDF knowledge graph, paired with Amazon OpenSearch Service and a custom blank-node synchronization layer, delivers deep s…

Memory is often the first hard limit a Kubernetes cluster hits. Nodes run out of RAM long before they run out of CPU, and the new wave of agentic AI workloads makes this worse. These workloads demand large memory footprints to start up and run untrusted cod…

We celebrated our 16th birthday with 46 announcements across open source, post-quantum security, AI agents, and developer platform upgrades. Here’s a day-by-day roundup of everything we shipped.

A year after announcing our goal to hire 1,111 interns, more than 750 early-career builders have shipped real products across 48 teams at Cloudflare. From Birthday Week launches to post-quantum security, our interns prove that AI amplifies human potential i…

We’re launching ReviewBench, a benchmark for code review agents built on representative GitHub pull requests, multi-source ground truth, calibrated evaluation, and production-aligned metrics. The post ReviewBench: An open benchmark for AI code review appear…

By Roopang Chauhan, Sundar Vedula, Peng-Wen Chen, and Nikhil Bojja. In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Roopang Chauhan, a software engineering architect on t…

Learn how dbt State lets you reuse what hasn’t changed and cut data spend.

Amazon Redshift now supports Iceberg materialized views. Compute an aggregation once in Amazon Redshift and store the result as a standard Apache Iceberg table in Amazon S3, queryable by Amazon Athena, Apache Spark, Amazon SageMaker, and AWS Glue. This post…

Amazon Redshift automates much of its own tuning, but periodic operational reviews still pay off. Learn how the review_cluster tool in the open-source Amazon Redshift MCP server runs a full cluster diagnostic from one natural-language request, evaluating 12…

TAF’s reproducibility story just gained its most important upgrade: every test case now produces a fully resolved, auto‑generated user properties file. This file captures exactly what the run used — … Continue reading \"MariaDB Found…

You may have noticed that some recent MariaDB Server releases arrived a little later than expected. Sorry about that! But there is a good reason for it. … Continue reading \"When AI Finds the Bugs We Missed: A Very Busy Year for MariaDB Security\" Whe…

Cloudflare is launching eight major updates that bring logs, traces, analytics, alerts, dashboards, querying, and telemetry export into one observability platform, with simpler and more predictable pricing.

Learn to direct AI agents, critically review their output, and keep technical judgment at the center of your workflow. The post AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

How we built a model router into Open SWE's harness that cut median cost per coding task by 64% with no measurable drop in quality, and how to build your own.

Filtered export for Amazon DynamoDB helps you export only the items and attributes you need to Amazon S3, without consuming table capacity. This post introduces the feature and shows how to recover a single tenant's data, share a tenant's history with selec…

From verifying AI-written code to securing npm dependencies, these are the sessions I’m building my Universe agenda around. The post 10 technical talks I’m excited about at GitHub Universe 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

What is Jev? Learn how TypeSafe AI’s System One model makes fast, structured decisions, where it fits in the agent loop, and how to use Jev with LangChain

Confluent Cloud secures OSPAR attestation, providing Singapore financial institutions with verified assurance for outsourced data streaming.

The KIP-848 consumer protocol in Apache Kafka 4.0 redesigns consumer group rebalancing to eliminate stop-the-world pauses. This post explains how the consumer protocol works on Amazon MSK, how to enable it on MSK Standard and Express brokers, and how to dia…

By Vaibhav Raizada, Kumar Kasimala, and Ashish Gite. In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Vaibhav Raizada, a senior software engineer at Salesforce, whose team…

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations. A new machine learning system can predict where damage is likely to occur 30-60 minutes before a storm arrives. The post Forecasting space weat…

Explore GitHub’s latest transparency data and learn more about policy updates affecting developers and open source. The post Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and modalities, Quine helps scientists c…

As September draws to a close, we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Debezium 3.7, the latest milestone in the Debezium 3.x series. This release brings together everything from the last three months of development, adding a wide range…

Debugging Apache Airflow DAG failures across services like AWS Glue, Amazon EMR, and Amazon Athena is slow and manual. In this post, we show you how to build a custom Airflow plugin that integrates with Amazon Bedrock to automatically analyze DAG task failu…

Announcing Spark Connect on Amazon EMR on EKS: build, test, and debug Spark applications from VS Code, PyCharm, Jupyter notebooks, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, or dbt, while running full-scale Spark operations on your existing Amazon EKS clusters.

A look at the targeted AI taskflows behind these findings, the critical Android bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source agent on your own app. The post How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent appeared…

By Sohini Arya and Manish Kumar Jha. In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Sohini Arya, AI Delivery Lead for Marketing Cloud, whose team pursued an audacious go…

Since launching a year ago, the Microsoft Research Asia - Singapore lab has established a strong foundation, deepened collaboration across government, academia, and industry, and explored how frontier AI research can create real-world value. The post One ye…

The Debezium Platform UI gives you a central place to design pipelines, configure sources, transforms, and destinations, and keep an eye on what is running. Over the last few preview releases, we have shipped improvements that make that work faster and clea…

Head of Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics 28 September 2026 The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is hiring the Head of Data Engineering and Advanced Analytics within the Banking Technology unit. Application deadline: Please note that the deadl…

By Ramya Subramani and Prateek Vats In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Ramya Subramani, Vice President of Engineering. Ramya leads the Cloud Atlas team, whic…

We believe glasses are the best form factor for having AI help throughout your day. They can understand your personal context better than other kinds of devices and keep you present without picking up a mobile phone. Most of the time, glasses are helping yo…

Analytics teams have always modeled data for BI. Context engineering models data for agents, starting with semantic search.

Introducing private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute for personal AI.

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Of…

As Kubernetes adoption has grown, the conversation has shifted beyond running containers to managing increasingly complex application lifecycles. Modern platforms support stateless web services, stateful databases, batch processing, AI workloads, and platfo…

By Archana Kumari, Yushu Yao, and Priya Lal. In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we highlight the engineering minds driving innovation across Salesforce. Today, we spotlight Archana Kumari, Director of Software Engineering, whose team built Agentforce…

With autumn officially underway, we’re pleased to announce Debezium 3.7.0.CR1, the first release candidate for the 3.7 series, focused on stability and polish ahead of the final release. Among the highlights, PyDebeziumAI brings real-time change data…

Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the PersistentVolumeClaimUnusedSinceTime feature gate to Beta (enabled by default). With this feature, the PersistentVolumeClaim (PVC) protection controller adds an Unused condition to each PVC, telling you whether any running pod…

We’re open-sourcing Rebalancer, the assignment-problem solver that has been used to solve resource allocation problems throughout Meta for over nine years. Rebalancer separates several related concerns: how to specify an assignment problem, how to sto…

Petal, the next step in Meta’s subsea innovation, will be the first subsea cable to deliver petabit capacity at transoceanic distances, connecting France and the United States over approximately 7,000 km (4,300 mi). Expected to enter service in 2029, it wil…

Custom-made molecules are advancing medicine, materials, and agriculture, but producing them is slow and expensive. A new Nature paper highlights RetroChimera, a predictive model that helps accelerate chemical synthesis, helping researchers explore a wide r…

We’re pleased to announce Debezium 3.6.3.Final, a maintenance release focused on stability and reliability improvements. The Oracle connector receives the most attention in this release, with corrected savepoint partial rollback handling for tables wi…

The Debezium 3.7.0.Beta2 release comes with a lot of changes, one of which is a complete rewrite of Debezium Server to support native builds with Quarkus and Mandrel. In this article, we’ll walk through creating a native distribution of Debezium Server and…

Kubernetes v1.37 brings important storage security features: emptyDir permission modes and bind mount options. They help application programmers and security professionals implement rigorous security policies, for example, prohibiting deletion of files acro…

By Raveendrnathan Loganathan and Tobias Muehlbauer. How do you compile the smallest sufficient body of current, relevant, and authorized evidence for every agent turn but without loading the entire enterprise data estate into every prompt? That is the conte…

dbt v2, dbt State are GA and Fivetran + dbt Labs debuts Fivetran Context Layer, dbt Charts and a new open lakehouse vision

Every product announced at dbt Summit, from dbt v2 and dbt State to dbt Wizard and dbt Charts, and why each one matters.

dbt State is now generally available everywhere you run dbt. See how it cuts compute costs and speeds up development.

With the release of Kubernetes v1.37, the Pod-Level Resource Managers feature has graduated to Beta status (disabled by default)! First introduced as an Alpha feature in Kubernetes v1.36, this enhancement builds on Pod-Level Resources by equipping Kubelet's…

Confluent's Trust Center simplifies vendor risk reviews with CyberGRX, CyberVadis, SIG, CAIQ, and TruSight/KY3P assessments.

New industry initiative establishes an open category for data architectures that power real-time applications and AI agents

As the leaves start to turn, we’re pleased to announce Debezium 3.7.0.Beta2, a release that delivers the first official release of the Milvus and SQLite source connectors and the Debezium CLI, alongside new capabilities across the platform, core libra…

Meet the 2026 dbt Labs Partner of the Year winners: phData, Snowflake, Cívica, Datum Studio, and 66degrees.

Changed Block Tracking (CBT) support for CSI drivers shipped as Alpha in September 2025. With the March 2026 v1.0.0 release of the external-snapshot-metadata project, the feature moved to Beta. If you aren't yet familiar with changed block tracking for stor…

Memory QoS has graduated to Beta in Kubernetes v1.37 and is now enabled by default. On Linux nodes running cgroup v2, the feature uses the memory controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory. It was first introduced as Alph…

In our Engineering Energizers Q&A series, we explore the engineering minds behind some of Salesforce’s most complex technical challenges. Today, we spotlight Alex Smith, Senior Director of AI Engineering, whose team uses Data 360 data graphs to give A…

Use KCP to automate Kafka migration with infrastructure generation, ACL and schema mapping, and offset-preserving data replication.

Discover how our security team built an automated multi-agent investigation pipeline that scaled alert triage throughput using a continuous streaming architecture.

AlphaGenome Atlas maps the molecular effects of 9 billion single-letter DNA variants across the human genome.

We’re introducing ZGateway, the proxy we are using to unify traffic through ZippyDB, Meta’s most widely-used key value store. As a bonus, it also enables admission control, load balancing, cross-region resilience, and richer operations. ZippyDB is the most…

We’ve built an AI agent that acts as a secondary expert for a given domain, making deep specialist knowledge readily available and preserved for anyone in an organization to access, share, and build upon. This is not a typical domain-specific agent. Its nov…

As summer winds down, we’re pleased to announce Debezium 3.6.2.Final, a maintenance release packed with correctness, performance, and security improvements across the entire connector family. Among the highlights, incremental snapshots now work on Pos…

What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, opening the door to larger studies and broader exploration. The post GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-F…

Hemut uses Confluent, real-time data streaming, and AI to automate trucking operations, improve fleet efficiency, and build the Internet of Freight.

Identity and Access Management is a highly anticipated feature for the Debezium Platform, slatted for Q4. Until then, we can explore what is currently possible: Single Sign-on, OpenID Connect, and even brokering Entra ID. In this first post, I will walk you…

Many AI projects are stuck. Don’t blame the models. The problem is a lack of trusted context. Here’s how you solve it.

As AI scales, cracks in data trust and governance start to show. Here's what breaks first, and what it takes to fix it.

Training and serving frontier AI models depends on fast, reliable networks that move data between GPUs without wasting compute cycles. To meet this challenge at scale, Meta designed MetaRoCE - a clean-sheet RDMA transport protocol purpose-built for AI workl…

MTIA 300 is the first of Meta’s family of in-house training and inference accelerators optimized for training ranking and recommendation models. We’re sharing how MTIA 300’s built-in NIC chiplets allow it to meet the communication needs associated with trai…

Accelerate enterprise streaming and AI workloads with new product updates across Kora, connectors, Flink, Tableflow, AI anomaly detection and forecasting, security enhancements, and Warpstream.

Explore new AI features and AI tools: support for IBM Granite Time Series models and TimesFM models (EA), enhanced Real-Time Context Engine experience, new Agent Skills, Confluent Assistant