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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 2d

Go’s release cycle = simplicity & stability:
🔄 2 major releases each year (Feb & Aug)
🛠️ 6-month support per release after the next version
🔍 Weekly patch updates for security fixes.

Details → go.dev/wiki/Go-Rele...

#Golang #Releases #Engineering

Go Wiki: Go-Release-Cycle - The Go Programming Language

go.dev

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 4d

🎵 OpenAI is moving into AI-generated music, according to TechCrunch.

The upcoming tool could join GPT and DALL·E in a unified creative suite — bridging language, art, and sound.

Full story → techcrunch.com/2025/10/25/o...

#AI #GenerativeMusic #OpenAI

OpenAI reportedly developing new generative music tool | TechCrunch

Such a tool could be used to add music to existing videos, or to add guitar accompaniment to an existing vocal track, sources said.

techcrunch.com

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 4d

💰 SoftBank finalizes its $2.25 B investment in OpenAI, signaling long-term confidence in large-scale AI infrastructure & enterprise adoption.

Read via Reuters 👇
www.reuters.com/business/med...

#AI #SoftBank #OpenAI #Investment

SoftBank approves remaining $22.5 billion of OpenAI investment, the Information reports

SoftBank has approved a second installment of $22.5 billion to complete its $30 billion investment in OpenAI, tech news website the Information reported on Saturday.

www.reuters.com

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 5d

🦀 Rust’s ownership model, dissected.
In “Move, Destruct, Leak,” Niko Matsakis breaks down how moves, drops, and leaks interact — and why they matter for safe systems programming.

Read here → smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/bl...

#rust #memory #compilers

Move, Destruct, Forget, and Rust · baby steps

smallcultfollowing.com

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 5d

🌿 Twiggy — a Git-first, Markdown-native wiki built in Rust.

No DBs, no CMS, just your repo as the source of truth.

Perfect for teams living the “docs-as-code” life.

👉 github.com/AlexEne/twiggy

#rust #opensource #documentation #devtools

GitHub - AlexEne/twiggy: Twiggy🌱 is a code size profiler

Twiggy🌱 is a code size profiler. Contribute to AlexEne/twiggy development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 5d

A critical flaw has been reported in an MCP server implementation.

If you run model-context / agenting infrastructure, treat this as urgent: apply vendor patches, rotate credentials, tighten network rules, and review logs for suspicious activity. 👉 gbhackers.com/critical-mcp...

#infosec #ai

Critical MCP Server Flaw Exposes Over 3,000 Servers and Thousands of API Keys

A critical vulnerability in Smithery.ai, a popular Model Context Protocol (MCP) server hosting service, exposed over 3,000 AI servers and thousands of API keys.

gbhackers.com

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 5d

☁️ Cloud & DevOps Trends 2025 by InfoQ:
🚀 Platform Engineering matures
🤖 AI & agents enter CI/CD
🔒 Security & compliance automation
☸️ Hybrid K8s is the new norm
📊 Smarter observability

Full report 👇
www.infoq.com/articles/clo...

#devops #cloud #sre

InfoQ Cloud and DevOps Trends Report - 2025

This InfoQ Trends Report offers readers a comprehensive overview of emerging trends and technologies in the areas of Cloud and DevOps. This report summarizes the InfoQ editorial team’s and external gu...

www.infoq.com

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 5d

🏗️ Reverse-engineering your architecture with AI.

Nick Tune demonstrates how Claude Code can analyze codebases to uncover structure, dependencies & domain boundaries — turning code into architectural insight.

👉 medium.com/nick-tune-te...

#ai #softwarearchitecture #claudecode

Reverse Engineering your Software Architecture with Claude Code to help Claude Code

Coding agents can do more when they understand your system.

medium.com

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 6d

🎥 Software Engineering with LLMs in 2025: Reality Check — a must-watch LeadDev LDX3 session from The Pragmatic Engineer.

How Big Tech & startups use AI tools in reality — with Kent Beck, Martin Fowler & others.

👉 m.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3_...

#ai #softwareengineering #leaddev

Software engineering with LLMs in 2025: reality check (at LDX3 by LeadDev)

YouTube video by The Pragmatic Engineer

m.youtube.com

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 15d

DevOps.com explores ChatGPT’s Developer Mode & full MCP access — giving developers deep integration power while raising big questions about security, governance, and trust boundaries.

👉 devops.com/chatgpt-deve...

#ai #mcp #devops

DevOps - The Web's Largest Collection of DevOps Content

DevOps.com has the largest collection of original content related to DevOps on the web and one of the top result for DevOps-related search terms.

DevOps.com

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 15d

Larry Ellison outlines how Oracle is building a different cloud — one focused on high-bandwidth networking, autonomous DBs & AI-driven infrastructure for data-intensive industries.

👉 www.nextplatform.com/2025/10/15/e...

#oracle #cloud #ai

Ellison: Oracle Is Leveraging All Of Its Advantages To Build A Different Cloud

For years, Oracle has found itself solidly in the second tier of cloud providers, well behind the top three of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure,

www.nextplatform.com

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 16d

AWS just launched EBS Volume Clones ⚡

Instantly create full, independent copies of your EBS volumes — great for testing, recovery, or analytics, and you only pay for changed blocks.

👉 aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...

#aws #cloud #storage

Introducing Amazon EBS Volume Clones: Create instant copies of your EBS volumes | Amazon Web Services

AWS launched Amazon EBS Volume Clones, a new capability that allows users to create instant point-in-time copies of EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone with a single API call, eliminating th...

aws.amazon.com

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 16d

AWS just made cross-region EC2 migrations easier and safer — you can now move encrypted instances without sharing KMS keys.

A major win for compliance, DR, and secure multi-region architecture.

👉 aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

#aws #security #kms

Migrate encrypted Amazon EC2 instances across AWS Regions without sharing AWS KMS keys | Amazon Web Services

When migrating Amazon EC2 instances with encrypted Amazon EBS volumes across AWS Regions with in the same account or a different account, you face a particular challenge: AWS KMS keys are AWS Region-s...

aws.amazon.com

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 17d

⚡ P99 CONF brings the best of low-latency engineering — Rust, eBPF, and deep system optimization.

The New Stack’s recap highlights talks pushing the limits of performance and observability.

👉 thenewstack.io/a-taste-of-p...

#p99conf #rust #ebpf

A Taste of P99 CONF: Low Latency With eBPF, Rust and More

As we set the virtual stage for this year’s conference, we wanted to share some popular sessions from last year.

thenewstack.io

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 17d

It’s hard to answer his question I’m very new to the tool and I have very limited experience so far. Still seems handy though.

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 17d

🛰️ Security researchers found that many satellite links still transmit unencrypted data, exposing sensitive info from ships, aircraft & infrastructure.

A major wake-up call for space & IoT security.

👉 www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/u...

#cybersecurity #satellite #infosec

Study reveals satellites comms spilling unencrypted data

: University team picks up voice calls, texts, and corporate data from orbit with off-the-shelf kit

www.theregister.com

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 17d

How do you understand millions of constantly changing products?

Etsy’s engineering team uses LLMs to interpret, classify & enrich listings — improving search, recommendations & user experience.

👉 www.etsy.com/codeascraft/...

#ai #llm #ecommerce

www.etsy.com

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 18d

AWS now supports encrypting Control Tower SNS topics with Customer Managed Keys (CMKs) — giving you greater control, compliance, and visibility into key usage.

Step-by-step guide here 👇
aws.amazon.com/blogs/mt/enc...

#aws #security #kms

Encrypt AWS Control Tower notifications with customer-managed keys | Amazon Web Services

AWS Control Tower is a service that simplifies the setup and governance of a secure, multi-account AWS environment. As part of its security features, AWS Control Tower creates an Amazon Simple Notific...

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 18d

Writing Prometheus alert rules by hand? Try this instead.

Prometheus Alert Generator lets you build & preview alerts visually, then export clean YAML for Prometheus or Alertmanager.

👉 prometheus-alert-generator.com

#prometheus #sre #devops #observability #alert #generator

Prometheus Alert Rule Generator - Free SLO-Based Monitoring Tool

Free Prometheus Alert Rule Generator with SLO support. Generate production-ready alerting rules without writing complex PromQL.

prometheus-alert-generator.com

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 18d

Your Go code’s performance isn’t just about logic — it’s about cache lines.

Sergey Koredin’s “CPU Cache Friendly Go” shows how struct layout, memory locality & data-oriented design improve real-world performance.

👉 skoredin.pro/blog/golang/...

#golang #performance

CPU Cache-Friendly Data Structures in Go: 10x Speed with Same Algorithm

False sharing killed our performance. Data-oriented design saved it. Learn cache lines and NUMA.

skoredin.pro

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 18d

Closures = functions that remember their environment.

Aaron Rose’s post breaks down how functions retain access to variables from their defining scope — with clear examples in JS & Python.

👉 dev.to/aaron_rose_0...

#programming #javascript #python

The Closure Phenomenon: Functions That Remember

Timothy had mastered function scope and understood how local variables vanished when functions...

dev.to

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 18d

Python’s PEP 810 proposes explicit lazy imports — modules load only when first used.

✅ Faster startup
✅ Clear syntax
✅ Better tooling support

If adopted, this could reshape Python’s import model for modern, large-scale apps.

👉 discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...

#python #pep #lazy #import

PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports

👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup,...

discuss.python.org

Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 22d

Progressive rollouts promise safety — but finer granularity adds hidden costs.

Surfing Complexity breaks down how too-granular rollouts slow feedback, raise ops complexity, and erode deployment confidence.

👉 surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/09/13/t...

#DevOps #SRE #CD

The hidden trade-offs of fine-grained progressive rollouts

A progressive rollout refers to the act of rolling out some new functionality gradually rather than all at once. This means that, when you initially deploy it, the change only impacts a fraction of…

surfingcomplexity.blog

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 22d

Kubernetes pods failing mysteriously? 🧩
Prequel.dev shows how to find & fix exit codes + misconfigurations for free — decoding errors, explaining causes, and suggesting fixes.

👉 www.prequel.dev/blog-post/fi...

#k8s #devops #sre

Prequel - Get ahead of software failure

Your real-time problem detection and resolution platform, powered by the global engineering community.

Prequel.dev

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Ioannis Polyzos @ipolyzos.com · 25d

OpenCode is here: an open-source AI coding agent that runs in your terminal.

✅ Any model (75+ via Models.dev)
✅ Works w/ any editor
✅ Privacy-first, no data stored
✅ 26K+ GitHub stars

👉 opencode.ai

#opensource #AI #DevTools

Models.dev — An open-source database of AI models

Models.dev is a comprehensive open-source database of AI model specifications, pricing, and features.

Models.dev

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