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High-signal field notes, architecture teardowns, and engineering writing from 50 publications. A focused reading queue for becoming a stronger end-to-end engineer. Updated 20 Aug.
Why streaming is the backbone for AI-native data platforms
To power AI at scale, organizations must adapt to the evolving role of the modern data warehouse. Here’s what you need to keep up in a rapidly evolving industry.
How to Set Up Your Server’s Roles for Members, Mods & Admins
There’s a LOT of Role permissions to comb through for your Discord server, and every community has its own needs. In this article, we’ll give some general guidance on each permission to help you decide what works best.
Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix
I’m Chris McCord, the creator of Elixir’s Phoenix framework. For the past several months, I’ve been working on a skunkworks project at Fly.io, and it’s time to show it off. I wanted LLM agents to work just as well with Elixir as they do with Python and JavaScript. Last December, in order to figure o...
Behind the scenes: Redpanda Cloud’s response to the GCP outage
On June 12, GCP went down. Here’s how we responded at Redpanda Cloud and what it taught us about safety and reliability.
BYOC: Secure by design, proper controls by default
JPMorgan Chase warns: no governance, no deal. Luckily, Redpanda BYOC provides the security of self-hosted with the convenience of SaaS. Read more.
Introducing multi-language dynamic plugins for Redpanda Connect
Redpanda Connect dynamic plugins framework allows you to create and load plugins at runtime, opening up a world of new integration possibilities beyond Go.
Get More From Your Boosts With New Server Perks
We're bringing you new ways to customize your server with additional perks that delight members, along with a new way to spend available Boosts on these additional server perks — no level required.
How a global gaming platform cut latency and CPU load with smarter observability
Learn how Redpanda’s game-changing observability cut latency and CPU load for the world’s leading online chess platform.
Gift Nitro and Earn A Flavorful Splash for your Avatar
Between now and June 20, if you treat your friend to either a monthly or annual Nitro membership, you’ll earn the Freshly Picked Avatar Decoration to splash across your profile pic!
What are MCP Servers?
With Fly.io, you can get your app running globally in a matter of minutes, and with MCP servers you can integrate with Claude, VSCode, Cursor and many more AI clients. Try it out for yourself! The introduction to Model Context Protocol starts out with: MCP is an open protocol that standardizes how a...
Top AI agent use cases across industries | Redpanda
Learn how AI agents are being used in the real world to solve problems, boost efficiency, and make work easier across different industries.
Fuzzer Blind Spots (Meet Jepsen!)
Systems inevitably have components which are easier or harder to test.
Discord Social SDK Updates & Integrations
Dig into the latest news about the Discord Social SDK! Learn how Facepunch Studios implemented the SDK directly in their game Rust to enhance their player’s social experience, and how you can do the same.
Discord Patch Notes: June 3, 2025
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Stream financial data to Snowflake for real-time analytics | Redpanda
Learn how to set up a real-time data stream into Snowflake for real-time insights using Redpanda’s blazing-fast Snowflake connector.
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bone-deep belief that AI is a fad — the next iteration of NFT mania. I’ve been reluctant to push back on ...
How to Use the Discord Soundboard & Add More Sounds
Discord’s Soundboard lets you instantly react to the call with quick custom soundbites. Where do you use it? How do you add more sounds, and how long can they be? Listen closely as we lay it all down!
Using Kamal 2.0 in Production
Agile Web Development with Rails 8 is off to production, where they do things like editing, indexing, pagination, and printing. In researching the chapter on Deployment and Production, I became very dissatisfied with the content available on Kamal. I ended up writing my own, and it went well beyond ...
What is agentic AI? An introduction to autonomous agents
A beginner-friendly introduction to agentic AI, its core components, challenges, and real-world uses. Read on.
Checkpoint 3: Leveling Up Discord Quests with Orbs and Advanced Measurement
We're expanding our Quests advertising product with a new reward for users: Discord Orbs. We’re also introducing a new partnership with Kantar, which will further enhance the return on investment measurement and analytics capabilities of Quests for advertisers.
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We’re Fly.io, a public cloud that runs apps in a bunch of locations all over the world. This is a post about a gnarly bug in our Anycast router, the largest Rust project in our codebase. You won’t need much of any Rust to follow it. The basic idea is simple: customers give us Docker containers, and ...
Explore Redpanda Cloud's new production-grade features for SREs
Say goodbye to ClickOps! Redpanda Cloud's new SRE features boost efficiency and future-proof your streaming workloads. Explore what’s new.
Asserting Implications
A short one today!
Go Beyond, Plus Ultra! with the My Hero Academia Collection
Become the hero you want to be with the My Hero Academia Collection, featuring nine Avatar Decorations and three Profile Effects based upon fan-favorite heroes and villains.
What are Apache Iceberg tables? Benefits and challenges | Redpanda
Apache Iceberg tables introduce a reliable framework for querying large datasets in data lakes. Explore their use cases, benefits, and more.