Discord has a talent for turning a simple product change into a community-wide stress test. This month’s episode: a brief UK experiment with age-verification vendor Persona, a user backlash that escalated quickly, and Discord rapidly editing its own documentation to make it clear Persona is no longer involved. The story matters for a lot more…
The Future Is Modular: What a Decade of Running Kubernetes Teaches Us About Platform Engineering
Somewhere, right now, a platform team is doing what platform teams do best: opening a spreadsheet, listing “things developers need,” and then quietly realizing that the list contains everything from GPU scheduling and policy-as-code to “a button that makes Kafka happen.” That moment—equal parts ambition and mild dread—is exactly why modular platform thinking is having…
AI Testing Is “Priority #1”… Until You Ask Teams to Trust It: What Leapwork’s 2026 Survey Really Reveals
AI has officially reached the part of the hype cycle where every roadmap slide contains at least one of the following words: agentic, autonomous, or the ever-popular “end-to-end”. And yet, in software testing—where “end-to-end” has a habit of turning into “end-of-quarter panic”—teams are still hesitating. A new study from test automation vendor Leapwork, summarized in…
Exploring AI in the APAC Retail Sector: From Cashierless MicroStores to Agentic Shopping Assistants (and Why 2026 Might Be the Tipping Point)
APAC retail has a long history of adopting new tech in a very “ship it, measure it, iterate” way. But over the past 18 months, something has shifted. The conversation is no longer just about AI “proofs of concept” or a shiny demo at the trade show booth next to the coffee cart. Increasingly, AI…
Microsoft’s “Budget Bytes” Wants You to Build Real AI Apps on Azure for Under $25 — Here’s What That Actually Means
When developers hear “cloud” and “AI,” we all share the same involuntary muscle memory: our eyelid twitches, we picture a runaway billing dashboard, and we start calculating how many cups of coffee we can afford after the month closes. Microsoft is leaning directly into that fear with Budget Bytes, a new developer video series from…
Scaleway Containers Gets Initial Support for a HashiCorp Waypoint Plugin: What It Means for Serverless Deployments
Scaleway quietly did something that will make a certain class of developers disproportionately happy: it added initial support for a HashiCorp Waypoint plugin in its Containers product changelog. That sounds like a small line item—and it is—but it also signals a bigger theme: cloud platforms keep trying to make “deploying an app” feel boringly consistent,…
People Loved the Dot‑Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much: Why Today’s Tech Gold Rush Is Getting Booed From the Cheap Seats
On February 21, 2026, The New York Times published an article titled “People Loved the Dot-Com Boom. The A.I. Boom, Not So Much”. It’s a deceptively simple headline that captures a weird truth about this moment: we’re watching another technology cycle inflate into the clouds, but the crowd down on the ground isn’t cheering. The…
The Future Is Modular: What a Decade of Running Kubernetes Teaches Us About Platform Engineering
Kubernetes is 10+ years old now, which in technology years means it’s old enough to have strong opinions about observability stacks, security baselines, and whether “platform” is a product or a philosophical argument you have at 2 a.m. during an incident. In February 2026, Giant Swarm published a short but pointed piece arguing that the…
Hetzner Warns of Phishing Emails Stealing Logins and Credit Card Data: What to Watch For and How to Lock Down Your Accounts
On July 5, 2024 (06:00 UTC), hosting provider Hetzner posted a warning on its public status page about a wave of phishing emails sent “in the name of Hetzner” with a clear goal: steal customer login credentials and even credit card data. The incident is still marked as “Identified” on the status page, which is…
Cloudflare’s Moltworker: Running Moltbot on Workers, Sandboxes, and Zero Trust (Without Buying a Mac mini)
For a few days in late January 2026, the internet briefly looked like it was sponsored by Apple’s smallest desktop. Social timelines filled with proud photos of freshly purchased Mac minis—“for an AI agent,” people insisted, as if that completely explained the decision to buy a tiny aluminum box to sit in a corner and…