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The Wake-Up Call We All Felt On October 20, 2025, organizations across industries, from banking to streaming, logistics to healthcare, experienced widespread service degradation when AWS’s US-EAST-1 region suffered a significant outage. As the ThousandEyes analysis revealed, the disruption stemmed from failures within AWS’s internal networking and DNS resolution systems that rippled through dependent services worldwide. The root cause, a latent race condition in DynamoDB’s DNS management system, triggered cascading failures throughout interconnected cloud services. But here’s what separated teams that could respond effectively from those flying blind: actionable, multilayer visibility. When the outage began at 6:49 a.m. UTC, sophisticated…
Following yesterday’s quarterly report, Apple saw a welcome bump in its stock price. But as markets opened and the day progressed, investor sentiment appeared to shift slightly. Here are the details. No news, good news During the last few days, most tech companies had rather momentous earnings reports. Meta’s stock dropped 12%, Amazon saw a 9.5% jump, and PayPal erased the 11% it gained after announcing a partnership with OpenAI just hours before. Apple, on the other hand, saw a more muted reaction, with shares up today about 2% in pre-market trading, following yesterday’s announcement. But that slight optimism was…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Cancer immunotherapy, which uses drugs that stimulate the body’s immune cells to attack tumors, is a promising approach to treating many types of cancer. However, it doesn’t work well for some tumors, including ovarian cancer. To elicit a better response, MIT researchers have designed new nanoparticles that can deliver an immune-stimulating molecule called IL-12 directly to ovarian tumors. When given along with immunotherapy drugs called checkpoint inhibitors, IL-12 helps the immune system launch an attack on cancer cells. Studying a mouse model of ovarian cancer, the researchers showed that this combination treatment could eliminate metastatic tumors…
“Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a totally coherent system bound to context and behavior.” — Kenneth L. Pike Article Continues Below The web has accents. So should our design systems. Design Systems as Living Languages#section2 Design systems aren’t component libraries—they’re living languages. Tokens are phonemes, components are words, patterns are phrases, layouts are sentences. The conversations we build with users become the stories our products tell. But here’s what we’ve forgotten: the more fluently a language is spoken, the more accents it can support without losing meaning. English in Scotland…
An agile transformation is the ongoing process of adopting agile values, principles, and practices to improve business outcomes. Successful agile transformations result in cost savings, improved customer satisfaction, and faster time to market. Agile transformations don’t succeed by accident. Sustainable change takes time, effort, commitment, and planning. Most organizations know this, so they invest in training, roll out new tools, adopt Scrum or another framework, and perhaps bring in agile coaches. Some organizations start small, with one or two teams so that they can uncover challenges and learn from their experiences before expanding their effort. Others go all in, transitioning many…
On Thursday night, the president of the Heritage Foundation — the MAGA right’s leading think tank — welcomed an open Nazi into his political coalition.You might think I am exaggerating. I assure you I am not. The Nazi in question here, podcaster Nick Fuentes, has described Adolf Hitler as “really fucking cool” and said “perfidious Jews” must “be given the death penalty” after “we take power.”And on Thursday, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts released a video defending this person’s inclusion in polite-right politics: describing Fuentes not as a hate-monger to be banished from the decent right, but as a coalition…
In today’s advertising ecosystem, the orchestration of strategy, execution, measurement, and optimization remains both fragmented and resource intensive. The drift across disparate systems, not least planning platforms, ad servers, Digital Signal Processors (DSPs)/Supply Side Platforms (SSPs), clean rooms, and analytics engines, creates delays, errors, and missed opportunities. The emergence of the Ad Context Protocol (AdCP) offers a compelling strategic pivot: a unified, normative interface that enables automation-capable workflows, accelerates time-to-market, and unlocks scale in an agentic environment. A coalition of key industry players, representing the buy- and sell-side, data and measurement partners, is actively developing AdCP to define standardized “verbs”…
AI Chat AI Chat builds on AI Describer but allows users to ask questions about their current view, past views, and nearby geography. The chat agent uses Google’s Multimodal Live API, which supports real-time interaction, function calling, and temporarily retains memory of all interactions within a single session. We track and send each pan or movement interaction along with the user’s current view and geographic context (e.g., nearby places, current heading).What makes AI Chat so powerful is its ability to hold a temporary “memory” of the user’s session — the context window is set to a maximum of 1,048,576 input…
A few weeks ago, a VP of Analytics confessed he’d spent half his time just tracking down the right dataset before any real analysis could begin. Unfortunately, his story wasn’t unique. It’s a sentiment we’ve heard from countless data teams: valuable insights are trapped behind layers of disconnected systems and bottlenecks. Today, “data silos” aren’t a technical buzzword—they’re a very real, very human challenge.In this article, we want to share a practical framework for tackling data silos head-on. It’s shaped by what we’ve learned from working with diverse organizations on their data journeys—some have soared by democratizing their information, while…
This week started with challenges for many using services in the the North Virginia (us-east-1) Region. On Monday, we experienced a service disruption affecting DynamoDB and several other services due to a DNS configuration problem. The issue has been fully resolved, and you can read the full details in our official summary. As someone who works closely with developers, I know how disruptive these incidents can be to your applications and your users. The teams are learning valuable lessons from this event that will help improve our services going forward. Last week’s launches On a brighter note, I’m excited to…