Builders 🔧 | 2026-02-21
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Google DeepMind announces updated production-ready Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, and increased rate limits.
Amazon's cloud unit suffered outages due to errors involving its own AI coding tools, raising doubts about the company's push to roll out these assistants.
GEICO cut its $300M+ cloud spend by shifting from network to identity-based security, improving portability, data quality, and infrastructure standardization.
Fly.io now offers powerful GPU instances, unlocking large language models, text transcription, and image generation for developers. Spin up GPU-powered apps with a few lines of config.
SRE teams can reduce P1 incident resolution time by up to 80% by automating coordination, centralizing context, and using AI to handle grunt work.
PlanetScale migrated Vitess' open-source test suite from Python to Go, making it easier to contribute and reducing development overhead.
Fly.io introduces an event-driven architecture for their fast-booting VMs, enabling efficient serverless-like compute without containers.
Cybersecurity tool sprawl increases costs, complexity, and risk. Consolidating tools and vendors is a strategic priority to improve security posture and operational efficiency.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging major technology companies to follow through on their promises to implement end-to-end encryption (E2E) by default across their services, as privacy concerns mount amid increased AI use..
We recently released a series of improvements to expand multiprocessor support, give you more control over your billing and invoicing models, and better tailor your pricing for AI products. Here’s everything that’s new..
This video playlist featuring Vitess co-creator Sugu Sougoumarane is an excellent resource to learn more about the features and capabilities of open source Vitess..
When building machine learning models, training is only half the journey..
Phishing attacks have become so sophisticated that even generic, unsophisticated attempts can lead to devastating breaches, undermining traditional notions of computer security.
Supply chain attacks involving self-propagating worms have spread widely, but the true damage and long-term impact are difficult to measure.
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