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- AWS Acquires DuckLabs
Amazon Web Services announced it has acquired DuckLabs, a startup that builds developer‑focused tooling for data workflows, to expand its cloud‑native analytics offerings.
- Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache
Cloudflare cut over 100 terabytes of RAM used by its 1.1.1.1 DNS cache by redesigning cache layout and eviction policies without hurting query latency.
- PicoMQ
PicoMQ provides durable, real‑time data streams over HTTP by leveraging S3‑compatible object storage, allowing unlimited, independently addressable streams that scale from idle to high throughput.
- How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Cloudflare reduced its Big Pineapple DNS cache entry size by 56% through five Rust optimizations, freeing ~100 TB of memory while boosting insert throughput 43% and cutting lookup latency 19%.
- Firebase for agents – OpenComputer
OpenComputer lets developers deploy TypeScript agents on isolated Linux VMs with pay‑as‑you‑go pricing, handling model keys securely and offering checkpointable sandboxes.
- Who Wins As Intelligence Commodifies? - by Rohit Krishnan
AI model commodification is eroding labs' moats, pushing them to pursue utility clouds, frontier‑oracle R&D, or conglomerate diversification to sustain profits.
- URL Source: https://saasylaunch.com/
SaasyLaunch offers a done‑for‑you service that manages product launch distribution for SaaS firms, including press release writing, outreach, and channel placement to boost visibility and user acquisition.
- The Cloudflare Blog – Brought to you by EmDash
Cloudflare moved its blog to EmDash on Cloudflare Workers, added caching, redesigned the UI, and rolled out traffic gradually to boost performance and enable agent tools.
- Skydive
Skydive provides a cloud‑based platform for creating AI agents that users can interact with via Slack, email, or iMessage, and which run on their own compute to execute tasks.
- Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Nvidia has cut back the amount of OpenAI infrastructure financing it is willing to guarantee, signaling a pullback in its support for the AI startup's compute needs.
- PostgreSQL for Everything
The article argues that PostgreSQL can serve as a versatile backend for diverse applications, from caching to analytics, reducing the need for multiple specialized databases.
- A County Got Rich From Data Centers. Some Question ‘At What Cost?’
Loudoun County, Virginia, earns substantial tax revenue from over 250 data centers, but officials and residents warn that reliance on this income may be risky.
- Git at any scale
Cursor argues Git’s packfile‑based design hinders scalable hosting and presents Continuity, a S3‑backed write‑ahead log system that enables linear, consistent replication.
- The 6-Stage AI Infrastructure Journey: Navigating the Three FinOps & Hardware Crises with ACE Gateway — ACE Blog
The piece outlines a six‑stage AI infrastructure journey, maps three predictable cost/latency crises, and demonstrates how ACE Gateway’s control‑plane features cut spend and prevent hardware failures at each stage.
- Extensible Software in the age of LLMs
Extensible web software can combine a stable core, LLM-driven extensions, and capability-based sandboxes to let users safely create and share personalized features.
- $1 million hacker challenge for Vercel Sandbox - Vercel
Vercel launches a two‑week public HackerOne bounty offering up to $1 million for researchers who can escape its Sandbox microVM isolation.
- Git at any scale
Cursor explains why Git's packfile design hinders scalable hosting, reviews past solutions like Spokes, and introduces Continuity, a S3‑based write‑ahead log system that provides linearizable, elastically scalable Git storage.
- Cursor launches Origin code hosting platform as GitHub outage exposes opening in AI coding race
Cursor launched Origin, an AI‑native code‑hosting platform that mirrors GitHub, aiming to capture developer attention as GitHub’s reliability falters amid rising AI‑agent usage.
- Nvidia’s Risky Business – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Nvidia is partnering with major financial firms to create $500 billion in financing platforms for AI infrastructure, transforming compute into an investable asset class and expanding systemic risk in the AI buildout.
- Posts tagged "Agents Week" — Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare's Agents Week highlights tools like AI Search, Kitesurf browser, and MCP v2, advancing agent-first infrastructure with continuous trust evaluation and open platforms for AI-driven work and data exploration.
- Observability for every Supabase project with Grafana Cloud
Supabase introduces a one-click Grafana Cloud integration offering pre-built observability dashboards, alerts, and metrics across all plans, including free, using the Supabase Metrics API.
- Introducing Kitesurf: The agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates on Cloudflare Workers
Cloudflare introduces Kitesurf, an agent-first browser built on Workers that prioritizes CPU and memory efficiency over human-centric features, designed to lower costs for AI agents while maintaining compatibility with automation tools via CDP.
- Your agent needs a computer, not a container — introducing @cloudflare/computer
Cloudflare launches @cloudflare/computer, an agent runtime that isolates code in lightweight workers and on-demand containers to give each agent its own scalable compute environment.
- Qwen
Qwen releases Qwen 3.8-Max, a 2.4‑trillion‑parameter model with open weights coming next week, demonstrating autonomous coding, research improvement, contest wins, and broad work automation.
- Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive with SvelteKit – Master.dev Blog
Integrating Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive with SvelteKit requires adjusting build scripts and using server hooks to provide per-request DB connections.
- Running npm in a Separate Container when using Claude
The author demonstrates using a separate temporary Docker container with shared mounts to run npm install and generate package-lock.json without polluting the host or Claude container.
- China’s free Kimi K3 AI model shakes up global tech market - Rest of World
China's free Kimi K3 AI model lets governments run top-tier AI locally, avoiding costly US cloud rentals and enabling sovereign data control.
- South Korea’s Memory Chip Giant Defies A.I. Market Jitters
South Korea's memory chip giant SK Hynix announced stratospheric quarterly sales and profits, but the results failed to ease investor anxiety over AI‑driven market volatility.
- Alphabet Quadruples Profit to $112 Billion, Fueled by A.I. Investments
Alphabet reported a profit of $112 billion, four times higher, driven by AI spending and strong cloud growth across its businesses.
- Requests for Startups
Y Combinator’s Fall 2026 Request for Startups outlines areas they want founders to tackle, ranging from AI tutors and defense tech to offshore compute and trust infrastructure.
- Durable Objects are Made for Agents
The author claims Cloudflare Durable Objects provide a cheap, single‑threaded, SQLite‑backed primitive that simplifies building AI agents, while noting concurrency and language‑support challenges.
- Inside Roblox’s Bet on World Models - ByteByteGo Newsletter
Roblox is pairing its game engine with a video world model (Super Upsampler) to deliver photorealistic, scalable multiplayer games while solving latency, consistency, and creator‑control challenges.
- Openship - Open Source, Self-Hostable Deployment Platform
Openship is an open-source, self-hostable deployment platform that automates builds, SSL, rollbacks, and multi‑service provisioning, supporting any language and offering cloud, self‑hosted, or hybrid options.
- Postgres for time-series workloads at any scale.
Tiger Cloud provides a fully managed PostgreSQL platform that independently scales compute and storage for time-series workloads, ensuring high availability, compliance, and deep observability.
- The Cloudflare Blog
Cloudflare’s July‑June 2026 blog posts detail advances in cache optimization, post‑quantum crypto, consensus research, AI tooling, monetization, and security initiatives.
- Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
Cloudflare launches EmDash, a serverless TypeScript CMS built on Astro that sandboxed plugins via Workers isolates to solve WordPress security issues while offering MIT licensing and x402 payments.
- Show HN: PostgreSQL performance and cost across 23 EC2 instance types
PostgreSQL performance and cost were measured across 23 EC2 instance types, revealing clear trade‑offs between query throughput, latency, and hourly pricing.
- Cloudflare gives OpenAI network signals covering 20% of the web
Cloudflare and OpenAI launched a research pilot that feeds Cloudflare's real‑time network freshness and traffic data into OpenAI's search system to speed up and improve AI web indexing.
- ZeroFS — A log-structured filesystem for S3
ZeroFS provides a log‑structured filesystem over S3‑compatible storage, exposing POSIX via NFS/9P and block devices via NBD with built‑in encryption and caching.
- Upyo | Cross-runtime email library
Upyo is a small, cross‑runtime email library for JavaScript/TypeScript that lets you write a message once and send it via SMTP or providers on Node.js, Deno, Bun, and edge functions.
- Cloudflare Workers and Hyperdrive with TanStack Start – Master.dev Blog
Using Cloudflare Workers with Hyperdrive and TanStack Start requires per-request database objects to avoid runtime errors and connection limits.
- Cloudflare Drop
Cloudflare Drop lets anyone drag a folder or ZIP to instantly preview a static site for an hour and then claim it to make the deployment permanent.
- Workflows | Render
Render's Workflows lets developers run reliable application logic and parallel tasks without handling queues, worker pools, or custom retry logic.
- Introducing Meerkat: an experiment in global consensus
Cloudflare Research introduces Meerkat, a global consensus service using the QuePaxa algorithm to provide strong consistency and high availability for control‑plane data across its 330+ data centers.
- Boring Computers
Boring Computers delivers instant Firecracker microVMs with snapshot-restore in ~3 ms, a terminal, browser, coding agents, and an AI driver, all open source.
- Run any Dockerfile on Vercel - Vercel
Vercel now supports deploying any HTTP server from a Dockerfile on Fluid compute with autoscaling and CPU-based pricing.
- Build from anywhere with Cursor for iOS
Cursor released a native iOS app in public beta that lets developers launch and control AI coding agents from their phone, with cloud agent support and remote control.
- Where Are the Most Data Centers Planned?
Rural areas in the southern United States are expected to host the most planned data centers, despite their noise and power demands.
- FFmpeg API - Process Your Videos Online
Rendi provides a REST API to run FFmpeg commands on its cloud infrastructure without installation, auto-scaling and supporting long run times.
- DuckDB Internals Part 1
DuckDB's internal architecture makes it fast and easy to use for local analytical queries, often outperforming cloud data warehouses on data that fits on a laptop.
- What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes
Kubernetes is overly complex for small teams, requiring numerous add-ons and frequent upgrades that outweigh its benefits.
- Introducing Vercel Connect - Vercel
Vercel Connect replaces long-lived provider tokens with runtime, scoped, short-lived credentials accessed via OIDC for agents and apps.
- never waste a token
Putting a durable buffer between AI agents and LLM providers prevents token waste and re-billing when a process crashes mid-stream, with resumable streaming and crash recovery using the same mechanism.
- Amazon S3 annotations: attach rich, queryable context directly to your objects
Amazon S3 introduces annotations allowing up to 1 GB of mutable, queryable context per object, purpose-built for AI agents and autonomous workflows.
- AWS Destroyed the Value Proposition for Bedrock - Securosis
AWS Bedrock’s launch of Claude Fable 5 requires users to share prompts with Anthropic, ending its promise of data neutrality for regulated shops.
- SpaceX Has $30 Billion Deal to Provide Google With A.I. Computing Power
SpaceX disclosed a $30 billion deal where Google will pay $920 million monthly for AI computing power, ahead of the rocket company's IPO.
- Europe Wants to Be Less Reliant on American Tech. Here’s Its Plan.
The European Union outlined a plan to expand its data centers, semiconductors, and cloud computing capabilities to reduce reliance on American tech.
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- The Google Capital Company – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Google raises $80B in equity, including $10B from Berkshire Hathaway, to fund AI capex, signaling demand vastly exceeds expectations and capital is becoming a commodity.
- Astro 6.4 | Astro
Astro 6.4 releases a pluggable Markdown processor API, a faster Rust-based Sätteri processor, and Cloudflare helpers for experimental advanced routing.
- the mathematics of multi-tenancy - by almog gavra
Multi-tenancy only reduces costs when workloads are uncorrelated, similar-sized, and numerous; S3 succeeds due to massive scale, workload diversity, and fine-grained object splitting.
Takes
Git at Scale (by cursor) has been one of the most interesting blog posts i've read in a while. It came right when I was frustrated with Shopify's internal git system. As an exercise, I've implemented it over the weekend as open source. It's a single rust binary that you can point at any S3 type object store. It uses WAL and CAS primitives and requires no other data store. It also implements bundle-uri so large git repos (like our mono) are very fast to download as a chain of static bundles. Also comes with basic familiar UX.
@tobi
Very excited to announce that general sign ups are now open at code[dot]storage We built this to be the fastest, most robust code storage platform available, and they only one made specifically for you and your agent
@pierrecomputer
My SEO setup so far: • sitemap.xml submitted and cleaned up • robots.txt configured • Google Search Console + Bing Webmaster connected • Meta titles and descriptions • Canonical issues fixed • Duplicate/redirect issues cleaned up • www → non-www 301 redirect fixed • Cloudflare DNS / SSL issue resolved • Internal links cleaned up • Structured data / JSON-LD added • Page speed + Core Web Vitals optimized • llms.txt + openapi.json added • Pillar pages + content clusters • Crawl depth under 4 + thin content check • Entity optimization • Quality backlinks What else am I missing?
@TeeDevh
When someday people ask how Cloudflare got into tax prep…
@eastdakota
🤯 Holy shit… I can’t believe I’m giving this away for free. A month ago, 175K people watched me open-source Larasend Instead of slowing down, I added a full team inbox, @Cloudflare sending + receiving, and rebuilt the product around it. The biggest update yet 👇
@vijaytupakula
We bought 19 PB of flash storage for our AWS S3 exit in 2025 for about $1.5m. The list price for this setup today would be $19 MILLION 🤑. Don't know if I've ever timed a trade this well in my life. https://world.hey.com/dhh/it-s-five-grand-a-day-to-miss-our-s3-exit-b8293563
@dhh
properly installed the @cloudflare MCP yesterday and it's already paying off. was setting up Sign in With Apple for https://granite.co and there was an SPF issue and claude just fixed it immediately for me. 🧙♂️
@Shpigford
Agent Plugins are the future of Agent Skills
@GoogleCloudTech
we moved a lot of our data pipeline to cloudflare and i made a quick video showing it off yes this video is NOT ABOUT AI incredible
@thdxr
cli was a year ago. apps maybe 6 months. now it’s services, web, cloud sessions.
@steipete
Another cloud provider down. ❌ Tailscale ✅ Headscale Now my company and products run on my self-hosted, private VPN.
@SimonHoiberg
On Bending Spoons: I still think about when they bought Evernote in 2023, it had user data stored on 750 manually provisioned (!!) VMs on GCP, sharded, with ongoing performance + reliability issues, running a Java 11 monolith (!!!) Then they went ahead and fixed it in ~6 months
@GergelyOrosz
I just reserved my Cloudflare Wallet tag: http://eastdakota.cloudflare.pay. Reserve yours now at http://cloudflare.pay
@eastdakota
Read the full blog post here https://earendil.com/posts/pi-autoresearch-and-databricks/
@pidotdev
I just reserved my Cloudflare Wallet tag: http://nickgray.cloudflare.pay Reserve yours now at http://cloudflare.pay
@nickgraynews
After developing the app locally (two prompts), deploying it took one prompt: > Push this to Vercel. Use Stripe Projects to create the account. Store the state somewhere safe. Claude chose to use Upstash as its datastore, which seems to be working well.
@patrickc
Introducing Conductor Cloud! Out with worktrees, in with multiplayer cloud workspaces. Bring your subscriptions, invite your teammates, start your agents, and shut your laptop. Conduct from iPhone and API, too. http://conductor.build
@charlieholtz
using @inngest is like a little gift to myself
@clairevo
current monthly expenses for http://knockoff.co (most of which *scale up linearly* as more people use it)
@Shpigford
MCP 2026-07-28 is live and it's the largest update to the protocol since launch. MCP is now stateless, making it easier to deploy and scale remote servers. https://claude.com/blog/bringing-mcp-2026-07-28-to-claude
@ClaudeDevs
box is the cheapest full VM sandbox for agents each box gets 4vCPU, 8gb ram, >50gb storage, free disk snapshots, desktop, ssh, https hosting, devtools, docker run >1000 concurrent boxes, self-serve at only $0.00001/s/box imagine all the agents you could run! try box
@AniC_dev
for those of you that have very serious applications deployed on cloudflare, do you really manage it all with a wrangler config?
@thdxr
If you wanna do it yourself, this is how: Buy (~15 min) 1. Cheap VPS from Hetzner or DigitalOcean (~€5-10/mo), Ubuntu 24.04, tick automatic backups at checkout 2. Add your domain to Cloudflare (free plan), switch nameservers at your registrar 3. Install Termius (SSH app) + Tailscale (private network) on laptop and phone, free tiers Lock it down (~20 min) 4. Generate an SSH key in Termius, add it to the VPS at creation. Keys only, never passwords 5. SSH in once via public IP, run updates, install Tailscale on the server, log it in 6. Disable Tailscale key expiry for the server (admin console, one click) 7. Verify you can SSH via the server's Tailscale 100.x address BEFORE the next step 8. Provider firewall: delete all inbound rules, allow only port 443 from Cloudflare's published IP ranges. No public SSH at all. You enter through the tunnel 9. Test from outside: public IP times out on everything, Tailscale IP connects. Server is now invisible 10. One SSH key per device. Phone gets its own key added to authorized_keys Install the brain (~5 min) 11. apt install tmux then install Claude Code (official native installer, one curl command) 12. Run Claude Code inside a tmux session so it survives disconnects and keeps working while your laptop is closed Hand over everything else 13. Write ONE long handover prompt telling Claude Code: the server facts, the security model (so it doesn't "fix" it), folder conventions (/srv/http/domain per project, one tmux session each), your preferences, and standing rules (confirm before destructive actions, new services bind to localhost/Tailscale only) 14. Make it write all of that into CLAUDE.md first, so every future session already knows everything 15. Backups before features: nightly job pushing your data to GitHub, tested, before a single page exists 16. Then let it install the web server (Caddy + Cloudflare DNS plugin plays nicest with the locked firewall), set up SQLite, deploy the first page From then on you never administer the server again. You open Termius from anywhere, on any device, and just say what you want. BOSH
@robj3d3
I've built and sold 2 saas for $8m. now I run a saas portfolio doing $1m mrr churn has cost us more growth than anything else so I made my team a list of 12 reasons users churn. sharing them here too: 1. you sold to bad-fit customers. that churn was booked the day they signed. write down the 3 traits your best accounts share and disqualify leads who miss them, even when you need the cash 2. onboarding never hits the aha moment fast enough. find the one action that predicts retention and rebuild onboarding so every new user does it in session one 3. failed payments cause 10-20% of churn and nobody's watching. add dunning emails, card-expiry reminders, and smart retries. it's the easiest churn you'll ever win back 4. silent churn. they went quiet months before cancelling. build a health score from logins and core-feature usage and get pinged the moment it drops 5. usage isn't value, results are. define the outcome each customer came for and measure whether they hit it, not whether they logged in 6. "budget" is never the real reason. it's the polite version of "I stopped seeing value." when someone leaves on price, dig one layer down and close the value gap 7. you watch net retention and ignore gross. expansion hides a leaking base for a year. if the retention curve never flattens, fix the product before you spend another dollar on ads 8. no expansion revenue, so normal churn drags you backward. add one upsell or usage-based lever that lets good accounts grow, not just renew 9. the product stopped evolving. their needs moved, yours didn't. talk to churned power users and ship against what they outgrew 10. cancelling is all or nothing, so they pick nothing. offer a pause, a downgrade, or a heavy discount, plus a prompt asking why. save who you can, learn from who you can't. read every cancellation reason weekly and then act on it 11. no win-back motion. nearly half of returning customers come back within 30 days. fire a sequence the week after they leave and lead with something they never saw, a new feature or workflow 12. shallow usage means zero switching cost. drive adoption of a 2nd and 3rd feature until you're wired into their weekly workflow. depth is the moat hope it helps 🙏
@tibo_maker
All you really need today to build a business is 100% free open source software that charges you $0/mo + a VPS server + an API to do some required AI stuff + some R2/S3 file hosting They don't want me to tweet that because it destroys their businesses but I can't lie to you!
@levelsio
The guide to software factories
@zachlloydtweets
Today we're publicly launching Cloud Run sandboxes. Here, I start, execute, and stop 1,000 sandboxes in 5s with an average of 500ms latency:
@steren
🤯 Wow I can't believe I'm open sourcing the email platform we built internally. Self-hosted, runs on your own AWS SES. You pay @awscloud $0.10 per 1,000 emails instead of a SaaS markup, and your email data never leaves your infra. MIT licensed. Here's what it does 🧵
@vijaytupakula
Dumb question: I’ve been running most of my cron jobs locally on my Mac Mini because it’s already authenticated with Google Workspace and the other apps I use. But should I run these jobs in the cloud instead with these apps OAuth’d to my Claude or ChatGPT account? How should I think about what jobs should stay local vs. move to the cloud?
@petergyang
"Just use Vercel." "Just use Supabase." "Just use Clerk." Cool. Now your auth, database, and deployment are owned by 3 different companies who can change pricing whenever they want. And the rest of your product is wrapping OpenAI. At some point you have to ask yourself: what do I actually own here?
@SimonHoiberg
This could well end quicker than most people assume, because coding agents in the cloud are coming, and they are coming fast, especially inside places like Cursor (I was in their offices yesterday, and local agents will prob go away soon as I read the room)
@GergelyOrosz
Why are people totally missing out on Cursor Cloud agents. Why are they buying mac minis or using VPSs, why why why.
@andrestaltz
Claude Managed Agents can operate in a sandbox you control, on your own infrastructure or with any provider you choose. Today we added new guides for @blaxelAI, @e2b, @googlecloud, @namespacelabs, and @superserve_ai, so you can choose the best fit for your use case.
@ClaudeDevs
we did something similar on cloudflare we have these internal apps that use cf primitives like workers, sqlite, r2 and they're all fronted by cloudflare access which requires SSO 100% vibed by opencode
@thdxr
📣We're updating the price of our Google AI Plus plan to $4.99/mo💰or local equivalent (down from $7.99), and doubling the included storage, from 200GB to 400GB ☁️. Now you can unlock tools to boost your productivity and creativity - and get more space to store your photos, videos and projects - for less.
@vikaskansalHQ
Things I started using today that I wish I started using earlier: 1. Terraform for my Cloudflare Accounts. 2. 1Password CLI for Tokens and Secrets.
@Jilles
Spending some time tinkering on a flight and realizing that, yeah, all I need is Cloudflare. To do anything. * Compute: Workers * Storage: D1, KV, R2 * IdP: sign-in with Cloudflare through Access * Domain: Cloudflare Registrar * Email: send and receive * AI: Workers AI * Frontier Lab AI: no lock-in, route it to AI Gateway * Containers: sure Create an MCP portal and have an AI agent running in the cloud talk to my Oura and Withings data and email me a dashboard report as if it is my own personal operating system? Yup. I have worked here for 8+ years and sometimes even I just can't believe the platform the team has built is real...
@LakeAustinBlvd
it's wild -- i spent the last 2 decades of my career putting everything in the cloud and now i'm figuring out how to give colleagues remote access to a mac mini sitting in my downstairs home office
@clairevo
YES-CODE An entire category of software, "no-code", was built under the presumption that code is expensive, difficult, and scarce. Coding agents have forever changed the equation. Code is now cheap, easy, and abundant. I remember @cramforce being asked by an analyst long ago: "soo, is @vercel like a no-code platform?" Without hesitation he goes "no, it's the absolute opposite. It's a yes-code platform." 😁 A key thing we set out to do was to be uncompromising in quality and sophistication of the things you could host. No-code solutions took shortcuts and set hard ceilings, typically on performance and sophistication. Our mission is to create the easiest cloud for agents that you never graduate from. PS: welcome
@rauchg