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Modern software systems rarely live in isolation. Most applications today are stitched together from dozens,  sometimes hundreds, of independently deployed services, each handling a piece of the puzzle. This helps create smaller units of responsibility and loose coupling. However, the flexibility comes with a new kind of complexity, especially around how these services communicate. In a monolith, in-process function calls stitch components together. In a service-based world, everything talks over the network. Suddenly, concerns that were once handled inside the application, like retries, authentication, rate limiting, encryption, and observability, become distributed concerns. And distributed concerns are harder to get right. ...

I’m catching up after a few days in Mountain View and starting to clear out the reading queue. Still a ways to go. Enjoy today’s list! [blog] Vibing at Home. I like seeing people share their own experiences. Those who only pontificate online about AI coding are losing credibility with me. At least try it yourself before lamenting or praising it! [blog] Announcing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 on Vertex AI. Folks were eagerly awaiting these updated models from Anthropic. They look powerful. ...

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Meta is partnering with V.tal to extend the Malbec subsea cable to Porto Alegre, Brazil by 2027. With this new extension, Malbec will become the first subsea cable to land in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, bringing more connectivity to millions of people in Southern Brazil and neighboring countries. Malbec will improve the scale and reliability of digital infrastructure in Porto Alegre, establishing it as a digital hub and improving online experiences across Southern Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Today, we’re announcing the extension of the Malbec subsea cable to the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. Developed by Meta, in partnership with V.tal, Malbec is a 2,500 km cable that entered service in 2021 to provide connectivity between the Southern Cone of South America and Brazil. The new extension will be operational in 2027 and will link Porto Alegre to the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

We’re thrilled to announce that ReSharper 2025.2 EAP 2 is the first public build to introduce support for running ReSharper out-of-process (OOP) with Microsoft Visual Studio. This long-anticipated architectural change lays the foundation for better stability and performance in the future, as it decouples the ReSharper process from the Visual Studio one. More on that in our latest progress update blog post. Although still in preview, OOP support is now available to all users who’d like to try it and help us refine it by providing feedback.  ...

On April 11, 2025 09:20 UTC, Cloudflare was notified via its Bug Bounty Program of a request smuggling vulnerability in the Pingora OSS framework discovered by a security researcher experimenting to find exploits using Cloudflare’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) free tier which serves some cached assets via Pingora. Customers using the free tier of Cloudflare’s CDN or users of the caching functionality provided in the open source pingora-proxy and pingora-cache crates could have been exposed. Cloudflare’s investigation revealed no evidence that the vulnerability was being exploited, and was able to mitigate the vulnerability by April 12, 2025 06:44 UTC within 22 hours after being notified. ...