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Enhancing the Python ecosystem with type checking and free threading
Meta and Quantsight have improved key libraries in the Python Ecosystem. There is plenty more to do and we invite the community to help with our efforts. We’ll look at two key efforts in Python’s packaging ecosystem to make packages faster and easier to use: Unlock performance wins for developers through free-threaded Python – where we leverage Python 3.13’s support for concurrent programming (made possible by removing the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL)). Increase developer velocity in the IDE with improved type annotations. Enhancing typed Python in the Python scientific stack Type hints, introduced in Python 3.5 with PEP-484, allow developers to specify variable types, enhancing code understanding without affecting runtime behavior. Type-checkers validate these annotations, helping prevent bugs and improving IDE functions like autocomplete and jump-to-definition. Despite their benefits, adoption is inconsistent across the open source ecosystem, with varied approaches to specifying and maintaining type annotations. ...
How Canva Collects 25 Billion Events a Day
ACI.dev: The Only MCP Server Your AI Agents Need (Sponsored)ACI.dev’s Unified MCP Server provides every API your AI agents will need through just one MCP server and two functions. One connection unlocks 600+ integrations with built-in multi-tenant auth and natural-language permission scopes. Plug & Play – Framework-agnostic, works with any architecture. Secure – Tenant isolation for your agent’s end users. ...
Scaling with safety: Cloudflare's approach to global service health metrics and software releases
Has your browsing experience ever been disrupted by this error page? Sometimes Cloudflare returns "Error 500" when our servers cannot respond to your web request. This inability to respond could have several potential causes, including problems caused by a bug in one of the services that make up Cloudflare's software stack. We know that our testing platform will inevitably miss some software bugs, so we built guardrails to gradually and safely release new code before a feature reaches all users. Health Mediated Deployments (HMD) is Cloudflare’s data-driven solution to automating software updates across our global network. HMD works by querying Thanos, a system for storing and scaling Prometheus metrics. Prometheus collects detailed data about the performance of our services, and Thanos makes that data accessible across our distributed network. HMD uses these metrics to determine whether new code should continue to roll out, pause for further evaluation, or be automatically reverted to prevent widespread issues. ...
EP161: A Cheatsheet on REST API Design Best Practices
WorkOS + MCP: Authorization for AI Agents (Sponsored)Wide-open access to every tool on your MCP server is a major security risk. Unchecked access can quickly lead to serious incidents. Teams need a fast, easy way to lock down access with roles and permissions. WorkOS AuthKit makes it simple with RBAC — assign roles, enforce permissions, and control exactly who can access critical tools. ...
Amplify Initiative: Localized data for globalized AI
Building a more accessible GitHub CLI
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> At GitHub, we’re committed to making our tools truly accessible for every developer, regardless of ability or toolset. The command line interface (CLI) is a vital part of the developer experience, and the GitHub CLI is our product that brings the power of GitHub to your terminal. When it comes to accessibility, the terminal is fundamentally different from a web browser or a graphical user interface, with a lineage that predates the web itself. While standards like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide a clear path for making web and graphical applications accessible, there is no equivalent, comprehensive standard for the terminal and CLIs. The W3C offers some high-level guidance for non-web software, but it stops short of prescribing concrete techniques, leaving much open to interpretation and innovation. ...
Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
AMIE gains vision: A research AI agent for multimodal diagnostic dialogue
MCP Demo Day: How 10 leading AI companies built MCP servers on Cloudflare
Today, we're excited to collaborate with Anthropic, Asana, Atlassian, Block, Intercom, Linear, PayPal, Sentry, Stripe, and Webflow to bring a whole new set of remote MCP servers, all built on Cloudflare, to enable Claude users to manage projects, generate invoices, query databases, and even deploy full stack applications — without ever leaving the chat interface. Since Anthropic’s introduction of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November, there’s been more and more excitement about it, and it seems like a new MCP server is being released nearly every day. And for good reason! MCP has been the missing piece to make AI agents a reality, and helped define how AI agents interact with tools to take actions and get additional context. ...