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Harness has acquired Augment Code's Cosmos software factory and related tools to integrate autonomous coding agents with its delivery platform. The most significant capability—learning from failed deployments—remains unshipped.
Agent-friendly APIs demand a different approach to scaling than traditional web services. Applying decades-old microservices patterns—bulkheads, statelessness, and smart endpoints—alongside a unified database backend can handle bursty AI traffic while preserving conversation context across replicas.
SAP is acquiring Belgian AI firm TechWolf to integrate its skills-mapping technology into SuccessFactors HR agents, aiming to reduce token consumption and improve hiring and workforce planning capabilities.
SAP is rolling out new AI assistants for back-office operations and acquiring TechWolf to map workforce skills, while launching SAP Pay for embedded payments and building governance controls into its agent platform.
The company's new AI-driven observability platform uses specialized agents to automatically investigate incidents and recommend fixes in under three minutes, potentially reducing the need to page engineers during incidents.
Oracle JDK 21 updates released from the October 20, 2026 Critical Patch Update are planned under the OTN license, ending free production use of new builds. Here are the dates, what the OTN license allows and the OpenJDK alternatives.
Upstream support for Kubernetes 1.34 ends on October 27, 2026. EKS, GKE and AKS keep their own deadlines, and the next step, 1.35, removes cgroup v1 support.
Cloudflare has released Streamline, a developer playground that shows how to construct bespoke video processing systems using Workers, Containers, and media protocols to modify livestreams and hosted videos in real time.
