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Shopify Drops React Native for Swift and Kotlin as AI Changes Cross-Platform Development Tradeoffs

Shopify recently announced it is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship apps in Swift and Kotlin. With the significant jump in the quality of AI models, Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali reassessed Shopify’s commitment to React Native, estimating that the benefit/cost ratio of maintaining native codebases across mobile platforms was now above that of using an abstraction layer. By Bruno Couriol

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Presentation: Teaching Engineers, Trusting AI: How Education Enabled Autonomous Code Review

Sarah Deitke discusses how Duolingo drives cultural AI adoption beyond tooling access. She explains their internal AI literacy workshops and observability dashboards, then shares a case study on redesigning code review using an automated PR risk-assessment bot. Deitke demonstrates how pairing targeted developer education with safe AI guardrails speeds up delivery without increasing defect rates. By Sarah Deitke

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Lyft Moves Streaming Fleet to Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator

Lyft has moved hundreds of production Flink jobs from a 2020 in-house Kubernetes operator to the Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator, unlocking last-state upgrades, in-place autoscaling and resource autotuning across the fleet. By Mark Silvester

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Article: Your Next DSL Author Is a Language Model

In this article, the author introduces Typed Domain Grounding, an approach to reducing LLM hallucinations in domain-specific languages by embedding them in mainstream typed languages. Using kUML benchmarks and an infrastructure-as-code example, he explores how compiler validation and generate-compile-repair loops can make model-generated DSL output more reliable. By Irakli Betchvaia

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Java 27 Delivers Post-Quantum Cryptography, Future Language Innovation, Helidon 27, JavaFX 27

Oracle has released version 27 of the Java programming language and virtual machine. As the second non-LTS release since JDK 25, the final feature set includes nine JEPs, five of which are still progressing through the preview and incubator stages. This release focuses on strengthening security, future language innovation, and projects under the auspices of the Java Verified Portfolio. By Michael Redlich

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Dropbox Outlines How Focusing on Existing Infrastructure Efficiency Can Create Headroom for AI

Dropbox has outlined how a decade of infrastructure optimization is helping it absorb growing demand from AI without treating new data-center capacity as the only answer. Its work spans forecasting, fleet utilization, storage density, hardware lifecycles, and rack-level power delivery, much of it predating the current AI boom. By Matt Foster

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From Memory-Hungry HNSW to Quantized SPANN: The Technical Evolution of Pinterest's Manas Platform

Pinterest Engineering has enhanced its Manas search platform to manage vast data, improving efficiency in search and discovery functions. By applying Scalar and Product Quantization, memory usage decreased significantly while maintaining high recall rates. The platform utilizes SSDs for optimized performance, and it is transitioning to multi-vector models for refined relevance matching. By Olimpiu Pop

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AI-Assisted Discovery Helps Microsoft Patch More Than 1,000 Vulnerabilities in a Month

With its latest September 2026 Patch, which addresses more than 950 vulnerabilities, Microsoft has patched about 2,750 vulnerabilities so far this year. While many attribute this surge to AI-assisted security research, organizations may struggle to keep pace and fully benefit from these advances, particularly when it comes to evaluating, prioritizing, and deploying patches. By Sergio De Simone

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Atlassian Automates Root Cause Analysis by Correlating Metrics, Logs and Traces

Atlassian has outlined a new approach to automating root cause analysis for large-scale cloud-native incidents, using correlation across metrics, logs, distributed traces, and service topology to generate ranked hypotheses about where failures originate and how they propagate. By Craig Risi

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Presentation: Lead Without a Ladder: How I Climbed Into Engineering Leadership

Pauline Jepp explains how systems thinking, rock climbing, and flocking behaviors apply to engineering leadership. She shares strategies for balancing team autonomy with alignment, supporting invisible work like mentorship, and navigating transitions from hands-on engineer to engineering leader while maintaining organizational trust and psychological safety. By Pauline Jepp

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Grab's Agent Framework LLM-Kit Accelerates AI Agent Production Deployment

Grab has implemented LLM-Kit, a framework that standardizes over 500 internal agent services. This system enhances service integration, evaluation, and secret handling, reducing the time to deploy new AI agents from two weeks to one hour. It centralizes infrastructure management, allowing runtime tool discovery and flexible model integration, while maintaining operational control. By Hien Luu

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Microsoft Releases .NET 11 RC1 with Go-Live Support, C# 15 and F# 11 as Default Language Versions

Last week, Microsoft has released .NET 11 Release Candidate 1, the first release candidate of the cycle, shipping with a go-live support license for production use. The release makes C# 15 and F# 11 the default language versions, extends dotnet test to mobile and desktop targets, finalizes the SignalR authentication refresh APIs, and improves Android build times in .NET MAUI. By Almir Vuk

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