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🤖 Supercharging the ML and AI Dev experience at Netflix with Metaflow
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đź’»Top 15 DevOps Programming Languages to Learn in 2025
🛠️Modernizing .NET applications with GitHub Copilot agent mode
🌟How Dash uses context engineering for smarter AI
🎲Shuffle: Making Random Feel More Human
đź’° Nokia is Planning a $4Bn U.S. AI Investment
‍💻 Amazon Cut Over 1,800 Engineers
đź’ˇ AI Tutorial:How to Create a Professional Email Template Using AI
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Metaflow works with many battle-hardened tooling to address the second point — among them Maestro, our newly open-sourced workflow orchestrator that powers nearly every ML and AI system at Netflix and serves as a backbone for Metaflow itself. In this post, we focus on the first point and introduce a new Metaflow functionality, Spin, that helps users accelerate their iterative development process.
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Programming languages are one of the most important tools in the DevOps arsenal. Choosing the right programming language or languages for your application is essential for succeeding at DevOps and achieving continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).
Modernization isn’t just about staying current. Older frameworks can introduce security risks, slow performance, and block cloud adoption. Upgrading unlocks modern APIs, better tooling, and cloud-native features like automated scaling and secure identity management.
That shift introduced a new kind of engineering challenge: deciding what information and tools the model actually needs to see to reason and act effectively. This has been popularized as context engineering, the process of structuring, filtering, and delivering just the right context at the right time so the model can plan intelligently without getting overwhelmed.
How we balanced statistical randomness with listener intuition. Shuffle has always been one of Spotify’s most-used features, and also one of the most misunderstood. For years, listeners have debated whether Shuffle is “truly random,” often noticing patterns or repeated tracks that didn’t feel random enough.
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Stripe AI (GitHub Repo)
This repository contains a collection of software development kits for integrating Stripe with large language models and agent frameworks.
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Figure AI, an Nvidia-backed developer of humanoid robots, was sued by the startup’s former head of product safety who alleged that he was wrongfully terminated after warning top executives that the company’s robots “were powerful enough to fracture a human skull.” Robert Gruendel, a principal robotic safety engineer, is the plaintiff in the suit filed Friday in a federal court in the Northern District of California.
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If you’ve got data stored with Atlassian, CrowdStrike, Docusign, F5, GitLab, Linkedin, Malwarebytes, SonicWall, Thomson Reuters, or Verizon… this might impact you. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group confirmed that hackers have stolen the Salesforce-stored data of more than 200 companies in a large-scale supply chain hack through apps published by Gainsight, a customer support platform.
The Finns are coming. At least one of their major companies is. Finland’s telecom equipment maker Nokia is planning to invest $4 billion in the United States for research, development, and production to drive advancements in AI-driven network connectivity. $3.5 billion of the investment will be allocated to R&D efforts while $500 million will be spent on manufacturing and capital expenditures in states including Texas, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
🧑‍💻 Amazon Cut Over 1,800 Engineers
Amazon’s been moving towards faster innovation and operating like “the world’s largest startup,” according to CEO Andy Jassy, but documents are showing that their record layoffs last month included over 1,800 engineers – nearly 40% of the company’s roles in NY, CA, and WA. The company claims that the job cuts were in response to culture issues in the company, not driven by AI replacing employees.
A new wave of AI-powered gadgets on the market aims to integrate artificial intelligence into our daily lives like never before. Some of these AI wearables — including necklaces, rings, and wristbands, as well as portable devices — serve as productivity tools, while others claim to act as friendly companions listening to your everyday thoughts
AI Tutorial
How to Create a Professional Email Template Using AI
Go to MailUI.co, Log in and open the Email Builder.
Pick a ready-made template OR Start from a Blank Email.
Use drag-and-drop blocks to add structure for the Header, Body, and Footer.
Customize the Design by setting your brand colors & fonts, adding images, and styling your CTA button. Keep the layout clean and simple.
Write Your Content with a short subject line and preheader, a clear headline, and brief, scannable text. You can also add a single main call to action.
Add Personalization with merge tags, like
{first_name}If your ESP supports it.Check desktop + mobile views. Send a test email and verify that the links and images work.
Then export the HTML and upload it to your email platform.
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