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Zone Redundancy Comes to API Management Standard v2

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:09:00 GMT

Microsoft has enabled zone redundancy on the Standard v2 tier of Azure API Management, following its arrival on Premium v2 in December. Standard v2 starts at $700 per month against $2,801 for Premium v2, but carries a 99.95% SLA rather than 99.99%. Zone redundancy can only be configured when creating an instance.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

FreeCORE: TrueNAS Fork Maintaining Deeply Integrated Virtualization, Jails, and OpenZFS on FreeBSD

Olimpiu Pop — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 06:06:00 GMT

TrueNAS CORE has been the standard for open-source storage using FreeBSD and OpenZFS. The shift to TrueNAS SCALE, based on Debian, left some users needing alternatives. FreeCORE upgrades TrueNAS CORE to FreeBSD 15.0, restoring essential features like FreeBSD Jails. While it satisfies certain administrators' needs, its long-term sustainability and maintenance by a single individual raise concerns.

By Olimpiu Pop

Copilot Code Review Reaches Azure Repos, Billed Per Review with Reporting Two Days behind

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:01:00 GMT

Microsoft opened GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos to all Azure DevOps customers, after acknowledging that many are not ready to migrate to GitHub. Reviews bill per use through the linked Azure subscription and appear in Cost Management 48 hours later. Budgets notify but do not stop reviews, and concurrency caps at five per organization.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Cloudflare Adds Optional OAuth Scopes, Letting Developers Mark What Users May Decline

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:07:00 GMT

Cloudflare has added optional OAuth scopes, letting client owners mark which permissions users may deselect at consent. The company names MCP servers as the motivating case, since agents request the union of everything they might do. Partial consent exists elsewhere, but developer control over which scopes are droppable does not.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

DoorDash’s Flux Runs 130,000 Engineering Tasks through Cloud-Based Agents

Leela Kumili — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:28:00 GMT

DoorDash has moved engineering agent workloads from developer laptops to its Flux cloud platform. The platform automated 130,000 engineering tasks in one month and supports more than 25,000 automated code reviews weekly. Flux uses isolated Firecracker microVMs, an MCP gateway, reusable playbooks, and multiple invocation surfaces to run agent workflows with scoped access and centralized auditing.

By Leela Kumili

Foundry Model Router Expands from Two Regions to 28, Refreshing Its Model Pool

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:18:00 GMT

Microsoft expanded Foundry's model router from two regions to 28 for global standard and 21 for data zone deployments, while adding Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 and removing four deprecated models. Default deployments receive pool changes automatically; configured subsets exclude new models until added. The effective context window equals the smallest model in the pool.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers

Cloudflare Extends AI Search to Make it Easier for Agents and Developers to Search Custom Data

Sergio De Simone — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:00:00 GMT

Cloudflare AI Search is a built-in search and retrieval service designed to give AI agents and applications a ready-to-use search engine over custom data. It supports agent integration, multimodal search, and seamless integration with other Cloudflare tools.

By Sergio De Simone

Cloudflare Workers Accept Inbound TCP, with gRPC the First Protocol on Top

Steef-Jan Wiggers — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:55:00 GMT

Cloudflare Workers can now accept inbound TCP connections through a new connect(socket) handler routed via Spectrum, ending an eight-year restriction to HTTP. Containers get full-duplex gRPC in any language, while Workers get unary and server-streaming through automatic gRPC-web translation. Everything is private beta.

By Steef-Jan Wiggers