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Presentation: From OTEL to SLMs: Distilling Frontier Model Behaviour from Production Telemetry

Ben O'Mahony — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:17:00 GMT

Ben O'Mahony discusses building custom AI-powered Language Server Protocols (LSPs) that go beyond standard rule-based checkers. He explains how to instrument AI agents natively with OpenTelemetry to track concrete user actions (accepting, dismissing, or regenerating code fixes) as implicit labels, creating a continuous data flywheel to distill frontier capabilities into cheaper, local SLMs.

By Ben O'Mahony

Cloud Native Infrastructure Emerges as the Foundation for Trustworthy Agentic AI

Craig Risi — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMT

A new technical analysis published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) argues that the future of agentic AI will be built not on entirely new infrastructure, but on the mature cloud-native ecosystem that already powers modern distributed applications

By Craig Risi

How Uber Builds Zone-Failure-Resilient OpenSearch Clusters

Claudio Masolo — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMT

Uber explained how it keeps its OpenSearch deployments running during a zone outage. It does this by using OpenSearch's built-in shard allocation and its own isolation-group system, which relies on the Odin container orchestration platform. This way, it maintains both query and ingestion capabilities.

By Claudio Masolo

QCon AI Boston: Production AI Moves Beyond Prompts to Platforms, Harnesses, and Evals

Tatiana Fesenko — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:00:00 GMT

QCon AI Boston 2026 focused on the operational challenges of deploying AI agents, emphasizing the need for robust production infrastructure. Key themes included improving context management, ensuring security through a "harness" around agents, and adopting a comprehensive engineering model for AI.

By Tatiana Fesenko

AWS Continuum to Enable Agentic Code Security for Enterprises

Gianmarco Nalin — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Amazon Web Services has recently introduced AWS Continuum, a new integrated security platform to automate the discovery, enforcement, and remediation of security issues across codebases, dependencies, and applications. AWS Continuum launches with four agentic capabilities, aiming at the entire vulnerability lifecycle: penetration testing, code review, threat modelling, and code vulnerabilities.

By Gianmarco Nalin

Developing and Deploying a Platform that the Business Understands and Developers Actually Want

Ben Linders — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:09:00 GMT

A lot of platform teams face a problem: they build a lot of really cool stuff, and then their developers don't use it. Be visible to management, talk to stakeholders and listen to their problems, make your value measurable with metrics like DORA, create narratives, and show the hidden pain to make it personal: these are lessons that Lucas Hornung and Christian Matthaei presented.

By Ben Linders

Presentation: The Rust High Performance Talk You Did Not Expect

Ruth Linehan — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:20:00 GMT

Ruth Linehan explains how migrating high-performance caching services from Kotlin to Rust shattered internal preconceptions around delivery velocity and engineering overhead. She discusses the ergonomics of the Rust borrow checker, shares how compile-time safety shortens the developer feedback loop, and profiles how tools like Criterion and flamegraphs optimize concurrent code paths.

By Ruth Linehan

AI Agents with Cloud Credentials Are Outrunning Billing Guardrails Built for Human-Speed Mistakes

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:17:00 GMT

A three-person agency received a $14,000 AWS bill in one day after attackers extracted static access keys and burned Claude invocations on Bedrock. Combined with May's DN42 incident, where an autonomous agent provisioned $6,531 of oversized infrastructure in 24 hours, practitioners warn that cloud billing lags roughly a day behind agent-speed spend.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Stripe Benchmark Shows AI Agents Build Integrations but Struggle with Validation

Leela Kumili — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:25:00 GMT

Stripe introduces a benchmark suite to evaluate whether AI agents can build real-world Stripe integrations across backend, frontend, and browser-based checkout workflows. The study examines end-to-end software engineering capability, focusing on execution, testing, and validation gaps in agentic systems under production-like constraints.

By Leela Kumili

Presentation: Postgres for Production Agents: Your Relational Foundation for Enterprise AI

Gwen Shapira — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:57:00 GMT

Gwen Shapira shares how teams are scaling AI features using PostgreSQL for mission-critical apps. She explains how to leverage Postgres's multi-modal capabilities - including JSONB parsing and high-recall HNSW vector indexing - to deliver deterministic and semantic context to LLMs. She also discusses vector quantization to speed up queries by 4x and strategies for managing agentic memory.

By Gwen Shapira

AWS Ships Claude Apps Gateway as Self-Hosted Control Plane for Claude Code and Claude Desktop

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:04:00 GMT

AWS and Anthropic have released the Claude apps gateway for AWS, a self-hosted control plane that centralizes identity, policy, telemetry, routing, and spend caps for Claude Code and Claude Desktop. The gateway runs as a single stateless container and routes inference to Amazon Bedrock or Claude Platform on AWS.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks Extension Connects VS Code to Google Cloud's Jupyter Notebooks

Sergio De Simone — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:00:00 GMT

The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud.

By Sergio De Simone

Google and Industry Partners Announce Agentic Resource Discovery Specification for AI Agents

Leela Kumili — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:40:00 GMT

Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dynamic capability discovery while leveraging existing protocols such as MCP and OpenAPI for execution and emphasizing trust and interoperability.

By Leela Kumili

Meta's Noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface Brain2Qwerty Achieves 61% Accuracy

Anthony Alford — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from thoughts using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals from the brain. In evaluations, the system achieved a word accuracy rate 61% on average, compared to 8% for other non-invasive methods.

By Anthony Alford

Presentation: Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends

Luca Mezzalira — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:42:00 GMT

Luca Mezzalira shares proven learnings from guiding hundreds of teams through the migration from monolithic web applications to distributed frontend architectures. He explains the core architectural difference between components and micro-frontends, outlines a 6-step decision framework spanning client vs. server rendering, and discusses how to utilize edge compute for safe, iterative rollouts.

By Luca Mezzalira