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Discord Engineering/02 Dec 2025

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…

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Discord Engineering/02 Dec 2025

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.

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Redpanda/02 Dec 2025

Operationalize Redpanda Connect with GitOps

Here’s how to operationalize Redpanda Connect with GitOps for less manual ops, predictable deployments, and a standard workflow.

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TigerBeetle/28 Nov 2025

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...

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Redpanda/25 Nov 2025

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.

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TigerBeetle/22 Nov 2025

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 🤣

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Redpanda/18 Nov 2025

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.

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Discord Engineering/14 Nov 2025

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.

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Discord Engineering/14 Nov 2025

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!

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Redpanda/11 Nov 2025

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.

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Redpanda/11 Nov 2025

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.

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Redpanda/10 Nov 2025

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.

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Discord Engineering/06 Nov 2025

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!

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Discord Engineering/06 Nov 2025

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!

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Fly.io Blog/06 Nov 2025

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...

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Redpanda/06 Nov 2025

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.

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TigerBeetle/06 Nov 2025

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:

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Discord Engineering/04 Nov 2025

Discord Patch Notes: November 4, 2025

Check out the finer details of the more technical fixes implemented into Discord recently.

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Redpanda/28 Oct 2025

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.

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Redpanda/28 Oct 2025

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.

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Redpanda/28 Oct 2025

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.

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TigerBeetle/25 Oct 2025

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.

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Fly.io Blog/22 Oct 2025

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...

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Redpanda/21 Oct 2025

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.

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TigerBeetle/21 Oct 2025

Tracking Time Without Clock

A short note on a couple of code patterns for handling time!

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