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Datadog Engineering/11 Aug 2026

Investigate account-level churn risk with Product Analytics account segments

Learn how Product Analytics account segments combine business context and product behavior to identify accounts that may be at risk of churn.

Engineering
Cloudflare Blog/10 Aug 2026

Everything we launched during Agents Week

Our latest Agents Week has come to a close. Here’s a recap of all the announcements we made from Wallets to Radar.

Agents
ScyllaDB/10 Aug 2026

ScyllaDB Customer Experience Spotlight: Susie Solis

Meet Susie Solis, a Technical Support Engineer on the Customer Experience team here at ScyllaDB.

Community
NVIDIA Developer/10 Aug 2026

Run Local Agentic AI Workflows with Meta’s Muse Glimmer on NVIDIA

Meta returns to the open source ecosystem with the release of Muse Glimmer, a 30B open-weight dense model with a 120K+ context window built for local AI...

Engineering
Cloudflare Blog/10 Aug 2026

Serving the most critical missions: Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status

Cloudflare for Government achieves FedRAMP Class D (High) Certified status. We also announce our commitment to pursue DoD IL4 authorization. Cloudflare brings world-class security, performance, and developer products to the public sector.

FedRAMP
Datadog Engineering/10 Aug 2026

How to manage risk from unfixed Kubernetes CVEs

Learn how to confirm whether your cluster is exposed to unfixed Kubernetes CVEs and build detection queries using Kubernetes audit logs.

Engineering
Datadog Engineering/10 Aug 2026

Instrument serverless apps with agentic onboarding

Use Datadog agentic onboarding to instrument AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Run, and Azure Container Apps from an AI assistant or CLI.

Engineering
Dan Luu/09 Aug 2026

What's the best programming language for coding agents?

This somewhat widely cited post (I keep seeing it cited, anyway) suggests that dynamic languages and/or languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient. It seems to be cited enough that LLM search results agree. For example, when I searched for "dynamic vs static languag...

Engineering
Netflix TechBlog/07 Aug 2026

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC…

How and Why Netflix Built a Real-Time Distributed Graph: Part 3 — Querying the graph with gRPC execution API Authors: Nilesh Mishra and Ajit Koti This is the third entry of a multi-part blog series describing how we built a Real-Time Distributed Graph (RDG). In Part 1 , we discussed the motivation f...

Engineering
Cloudflare Blog/07 Aug 2026

Unveiling good and bad behaviors on the Agentic Internet

Cloudflare is shifting bot mitigation from point-in-time Risk assessment to continuous Trust evaluation. Learn how new good and bad behaviors from bots and agents are assessed by our systems, including BotBase and Precursor — and try out our Precursor Trace simulation to see how your own cursor move...

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/07 Aug 2026

Introducing Radar Researcher: An AI tool for exploring Internet data in plain language

Cloudflare Radar Researcher is a new AI-powered tool that lets you explore global Internet trends and traffic data using plain language. Built entirely on Cloudflare's Developer Platform, it turns natural language queries into real, interactive charts.

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/07 Aug 2026

Announcing Cloudflare Ambassadors, Community Engineers, and another $1M in open-source funding

We are launching updated community programs, including Cloudflare Ambassadors and Community Engineers, backed by $1M in open-source funding. Learn how we are supporting maintainers and scaling our developer community.

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/07 Aug 2026

Unifying Workers AI and AI Gateway into a single AI control plane

Cloudflare is unifying AI Gateway and Workers AI into a single control plane, giving developers observability, billing, and dynamic routing across both managed GPUs and external providers. Learn how unified bindings and model-first routing simplify building resilient AI applications.

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/06 Aug 2026

Cloudflare AI Search: give your agents a search engine for your data

AI Search makes search easier than ever, with no Cloudflare primitives to stitch together. Point it at your data to create a search for your own files and websites. We're also sharing a preview of our new pricing model.

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/06 Aug 2026

The next generation of MCP

The next version of MCP has a rewritten, stateless core that just works on Workers. We cover upgrades to the protocol, the new feature lifecycle and SDK migration path, and hear from early adopters already running it in production.

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/06 Aug 2026

From ranking to recommended: get your site ready to thrive in the age of AI agents

More than half of requests now come from machines, not people. Agent Readiness shows how well agents can discover and read your site, while Answer Engine Optimization tracks how often AI assistants recommend you.

AEO
Cloudflare Blog/06 Aug 2026

Building an open Agentic Internet: readable, discoverable, callable, and payable

Agents are a new kind of visitor. They don't render CSS or click ads, but they have a paying human on the other end. Block them and you block your customer. We're building the open tools and protocols so publishers and agents can cooperate and not collide.

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/06 Aug 2026

Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers

We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic Cloud.

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/06 Aug 2026

Give any website a WebMCP interface

Today we're launching a developer preview of WebMCP on Cloudflare. With one switch, any site becomes usable by browser AI agents — no new APIs, no origin changes — while the human stays in control and creators keep their traffic.

Agents
Discord Engineering/06 Aug 2026

Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2026

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

Engineering
Discord Engineering/06 Aug 2026

General Availability of Mobile Platform Support Arrives in Discord Social SDK Version 1.10

Mobile support is now generally available in the Discord Social SDK, allowing developers to extend Discord's social experiences to iOS and Android.

Engineering
Datadog Engineering/06 Aug 2026

Find, analyze, and collaborate on user sessions in Datadog Session Replay

See how Datadog Session Replay unites session discovery, AI analysis, and team collaboration in a single workspace.

Engineering
Cloudflare Blog/05 Aug 2026

Cloudflare is the only vendor named a Visionary in 2026 SASE and SSE reports

We're honored to announce that Cloudflare is the only vendor that has been recognized as a Visionary in both the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms and the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge reports.

AI
Cloudflare Blog/05 Aug 2026

The Agent Access Model

The Agent Access Model proposes a new architecture to secure task-scoped agents using strict identity brokering, continuous mediation, and stateful trust.

Agents
Cloudflare Blog/05 Aug 2026

How we’re rethinking work at Cloudflare with Cloudflare OS

We built Cloudflare OS to equip our teams to safely rethink how they get work done with AI. The platform brings together the best of our technologies, from our Compute primitives to our Zero Trust suite. This post walks through our journey to give our users the best AI tools available.

Agents Week
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