AWS has announced the general availability of Amazon S3 Vectors, increasing per-index capacity forty-fold to 2 billion vectors. By natively integrating vector search into the S3...
Read moreThe “super flu” behind outbreaks in the US and UK is a new variant of influenza A H3N2, subclade K. Existing vaccines appear to be insufficiently...
Read moreI remember that when Git was new and hip (around 2005), one of the supposed advantages was that “merging is so great!”. Well, to be honest,...
Read moreNaveen Mareddy and Sujana Sooreddy discuss the evolution of Netflix’s media processing observability, moving from monolithic tracing to a high-cardinality analytics platform. They explain how to...
Read moreSoftware platforms and frameworks act like paved roads: they accelerate MVP/MVA delivery but impose decisions teams may not accept. If the paved roads don’t reach your...
Read moreI just released mrcal 2.5; much more about that in a future post. Here, I’d like to talk about some implementation details. libpython3 and linking mrcal...
Read moreDecember 2025 started off with a nice event, namely a small gathering of Vienna based DDs. Some of us were at DebConf25 in Brest and we...
Read moreMesa 25.3.3 shipped on Thursday as the newest stable point release for Q4’s Mesa 25.3 feature series. Now being into the new quarter, we have Mesa...
Read moreBack in November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high at 3.2%. With the still increasing popularity around the Steam Deck powered by the Arch...
Read moreReleased back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide “init freedom” with letting users instead opt for SysVinit,...
Read moreWhat changed in Ubuntu in 2025? From the “oxidisation” of sudo to the end of X11, here’s a recap of the 10 biggest changes the distro...
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