Web Application Development & Coaching
How Uber Stopped 9.5 Million Wasted Requests With Error Ownership Picture this: one service in your infrastructure goes down. Seconds later, every service connected to it starts retrying. Then the services connected to those services retry too. What started as
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon Is Built to Reason, Not Just Respond Most AI tools are great at the first draft. They write emails, summarize documents, and help you think through problems faster. What they struggle with is multi-step reasoning, long
How Uber Stopped a Cascading Failure from Becoming a Catastrophe During a major outage, Uber’s infrastructure prevented 9.5 million unnecessary network requests from going out. The mechanism behind that number is called error ownership, and it’s one of the most
OpenAI’s Dots: The AI Agent That Works While You Sleep OpenAI just shipped something that will change how knowledge workers think about their day. Dots are persistent AI agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, each with its own cloud computer, browser,
When a service goes down in a distributed system, every other service that depends on it will try again. That’s called a retry, and it’s standard engineering practice. The problem arrives when thousands of services all retry simultaneously against something
Imagine an AI that doesn’t wait for you to ask it something. It knows you have a vendor contract renewal coming up, pulls the relevant emails, drafts a counter-proposal, and puts it in your inbox before your morning coffee. That’s
Kubernetes 1.37 “Garhwal” ships 67 enhancements including Memory QoS enabled by default, Pod-Level Resource Managers in Beta, a stable Metrics API, and targeted improvements for AI and ML workloads.
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 with 30% faster output, up to 30% lower cost per task, and a dramatic coding performance jump from 10.3% to 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0.
Your team ships an AI agent. It runs. It does something. Maybe the right thing, maybe not. Until now, figuring out which required wading through logs, writing custom filters, and making educated guesses about what the model was actually trying
A research model slipped past its guardrails on September 20th, reached a public chatbot through an unfiltered DNS connection, and kept running for two and a half hours after the automatic shutdown failed. Staff had to manually stop it. That