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Save and Display Your Faves: Add Discord Shop & Marvel Rivals Items to Your Profile’s Wishlist
Keep track of all the stuff from the Shop you’ve been wanting to purchase with the new Wishlist feature. Display the stuff you’ve been eyeing on your profile, and if you’re lucky enough, maybe one of your friends may see it and gift it to you…
Bringing In-Game Commerce to Discord Communities
By bringing commerce directly to official game communities, we're giving game developers the opportunity to benefit from these dynamics, creating incremental revenue that complements their existing storefronts.
Operationalize Redpanda Connect with GitOps
Here’s how to operationalize Redpanda Connect with GitOps for less manual ops, predictable deployments, and a standard workflow.
A Tale Of Four Fuzzers
Charles Darnay observed that the gate was held by a mixed guard of soldiers and patriots, the latter far outnumbering the former; and that while ingress into the city for peasants’ carts bringing in supplies, and for similar traffic and traffickers, was easy enough, egress, even for the homeliest pe...
What's new in Redpanda Cloud: A simpler Serverless now on GCP
Redpanda Serverless gives you the shortest path from idea to impact with a new onboarding UX, availability on GCP, and more. Here’s what’s new.
Mathematics of Consensus — Accidental Lecture
Somewhat accidentally, we recorded an impromptu ~2 hour lecture explaining the mathematics behind consensus algorithms, using a Go Pro fisheye—the camera on hand 🤣
Migrating from NATS to Redpanda: Evolve from messaging to streaming
Organizations are moving from message delivery to data streaming, unlocking new capabilities, insights, and improved business value. Here’s how to do the same.
How to Link Discord to Battlefield 6, Marvel Rivals & More
Some of the most popular multiplayer games have added the ability to directly link your Discord account to the game! Learn how to link your Discord account to some big-name titles and see what sorta perks it provides.
How to Share What You’re Playing, Listening to, or Watching as Your Status on Discord
Playing a game right now? Listening to some tunes, or catching up on that one anime your friends won’t stop talking about? Learn how to show off what you’re up to as your Discord status and show @everyone what’s up!
Streamfest Day 2: Smarter streaming in the cloud and the future of Kafka
Redpanda Streamfest is a two-day virtual event for developers to master data streaming for the AI era. Here’s what happened on day two.
Streamfest Day 1: AI, governance, and enterprise agents
Redpanda Streamfest is a two-day virtual event for developers to master data streaming for the AI era. Here’s what happened on day one.
Kafka automation made simple | Redpanda
Tired of brittle Kafka scripts? Learn how Redpanda automates cluster management with zero-touch operations, built-in durability, and easier scaling.
Discord Update: November 6, 2025 Changelog
Here's the Discord Changelog from November 6, 2025, so you can stay informed on what’s new in recent app updates!
A Cornucopia of Updates Make Discord on Desktop Fresher Than a Crisp Fall Breeze
This fall, emoji making gets faster, the Settings page gets a redesign, Group DMs are easier to customize, more games gain support for special Discord-powered capabilities, and Family Center gets some expanded features. Take a peek at what’s new this season!
You Should Write An Agent
Some concepts are easy to grasp in the abstract. Boiling water: apply heat and wait. Others you really need to try. You only think you understand how a bicycle works, until you learn to ride one. There are big ideas in computing that are easy to get your head around. The AWS S3 API. It’s the most im...
Redpanda 25.3 delivers near-instant disaster recovery and more
Check out how the latest Redpanda release is providing the resilience, efficiency, and interoperability that modern enterprises need for their streaming workloads.
The Write Last, Read First Rule
TigerBeetle is a financial transactions database built for correctness. Yet, building a correct system from correct components remains a challenge:
Discord Patch Notes: November 4, 2025
Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.
Introducing the Agentic Data Plane
Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane (ADP) is a unified runtime and control plane that safely exposes enterprise data to AI agents. Here’s how we’re building it.
Governed autonomy: The path to enterprise Agentic AI
The Agentic Data Plane by Redpanda is how enterprises will connect and control AI agents, and how they’ll prove those agents act responsibly. Sign up for early access.
Introducing low-code MCP servers in Redpanda Cloud
Introducing Redpanda Cloud Remote MCP, a managed solution for low-code MCP servers that easily integrates your data sources with AI apps.
Synadia and TigerBeetle Pledge $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation
Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over the next two years in support of the language, leadership, and communities building the future of simpler systems software.
Corrosion
Fly.io transmogrifies Docker containers into Fly Machines: micro-VMs running on our own hardware all over the world. The hardest part of running this platform isn’t managing the servers, and it isn’t operating the network; it’s gluing those two things together. Several times a second, as customer CI...
Build an e-commerce streaming data pipeline with Snowflake and Redpanda
Learn how to set up a live data pipeline streaming e-commerce order data from Redpanda into Snowflake for real-time insights.
Tracking Time Without Clock
A short note on a couple of code patterns for handling time!