Weekly news | 2025-10-01
news
- Announcing Cloudflare Email Service’s private beta
- Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians
- Auth.js is now part of Better Auth
- Introduction to Terraform Actions
- Terraform search
- AI:
- AWS:
- Amazon Nova Act extension: Build and test AI agents within your IDE
- AppStream 2.0 multi-session fleets | Local file redirection
- Bedrock AgentCore, Browser, Code Interpreter supports VPC, PrivateLink, CloudFormation, tagging
- Billing View cost management data from multiple organizations
- Clean Rooms incremental ID mapping with AWS Entity Resolution
- CloudWatch resource tags when monitoring vended metrics
- Compute Optimizer +99 new Amazon EC2 instance types
- Connect
-associate custom attributes with interaction segments
-flow designer now supports analytics mode - Connect Contact Lens sensitive data redaction +7 languages
- EBS increased max size/performance of GP3 volumes
- EC2
-Allowed AMIs setting adds new params
-instance attestation - EC2 Auto Scaling forced cancellation of instance refreshes
- IAM Identity Center customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest
- License Manager supports shared Managed Active Directory
- Network Firewall enhances application layer traffic controls
- RDS cross-Region and cross-account snapshot copy
- RDS Database Preview Environment PostgreSQL 18.0
- RDS for Db2 now offers Reserved Instances
- S3 Tables Preview in the S3 console
- X-Ray Adaptive Sampling for automatic optimized error detection
- For a full list of AWS announcements, be sure to keep an eye on AWS’s What’s New Feed page.
tooling
- Helium browser
- Dayflow: Generate a timeline of your day, automatically
- SSH3: faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
- handy: the free and open source app for speech to text
- Atuin Desktop: Runbooks that Run — Now Open Source
- devbox: Create and manage isolated development environments using Docker with ease
- OpenTSLM: Language models that understand time series
- ChartDB: Visualize database schemas
- tftargets: A tool that analyzes Terraform configurations and identifies directories that need to be executed based on Git changes
- CodeRabbit CLI: line-by-line code suggestions, and real-time chat
- aws-samples: A collection of AWS CLI scripts and tutorials for common AWS service use cases, designed to help developers quickly get started with AWS services through the command line.
blogs
- ChatControl wants to scan all your private messages
- The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review
- Traefik's 10-Year Journey from Zero to Standard
- Redis is fast – I'll cache in Postgres
- The AI coding trap
- Thoughts on Cloudflare
- A SQL Heuristic: ORs Are Expensive
- an opinionated critique of duolingo
- The Magic of Claude Code
- Intelligent Kubernetes Load Balancing at Databricks