The massive outage in Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region was traced to a race condition in the DNS automation of the DynamoDB service. An empty DNS record and automation failures propagated across multiple AWS services, disrupting dozens of major websites and apps.
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Engineering Leaders on Strategizing AI for 2026
A roundup of senior engineering leaders discussing how teams are aligning on AI-led feature rollout, balancing speed vs stability, scaling distributed teams, and redefining manager skills for “agentic” AI systems.
Read more: Notchup
10 Essential Software Design Best Practices for 2025
A refresh on evergreen software engineering discipline: principles like SOLID, DRY, TDD, code review, deploy small & fast — useful for teams wanting less AI-centric focus.
Read more: DocuWriter.ai
Modern Caching Strategies Beyond Redis and Memcached
A deep look into caching architectures in the age of edge computing: cache invalidation, tiered layers, adaptive TTLs, and how CDN-level intelligence reshapes classic system-design choices.
Read more: Infoq
Fun Stuff — Programming Humor
“Why did the developer go broke? Because he used up all his cache 💸”
