Intel is laying off more than 5,000 employees across four states, according to updated Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification filings. From a report: Most of the cuts are happening in California and Oregon. Intel more than doubled its layoff estimates for Santa Clara and Folsom to a total of 1,935 affected employees, according to California WARN filings. The cuts began taking place in Folsom on July 11, and in Santa Clara on July 15.

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Discover the top 10 essential topics for mastering CrewAI, the lightweight Python framework for building and orchestrating multi-agent AI systems—plus real Crew examples and companies already building production apps with CrewAI.

It’s one of those terms that’s often mentioned, but what actually IS Event Sourcing? Find out in this article.

Introduction: The Evolution from Batch to Real-Time 1.1 The Limitations of Traditional Batch Processing For decades, businesses relied on nightly batch jobs to process transactional data. These jobs aggregated sales, updated inventory, or detected fraud retrospectively. This model worked when business moved at a slower pace. But today, waiting hours—or even minutes—for insight is often unacceptable. Batch processing suffers from several drawbacks: Latency: Insights are delayed until the next job completes. Resource Spikes: Batch jobs create periodic spikes in resource usage, complicating scaling. Complexity: Maintaining ETL pipelines, failure recovery, and late-arriving data logic can become unwieldy. Inflexibility: Adapting to new requirements or data sources requires redeployments and sometimes reprocessing historical data. 1.2 The Rise of the Real-Time Enterprise: Why Now? The last decade has seen a profound shift in how enterprises operate. Digital-native c...

I planned my morning poorly with back-to-back intense presentations. I followed that up by staring into the middle distance for ten minutes to allow my brain to reboot. Do you give yourself a breather after some intense work, or do you push through?

[blog] Engineering Deutsche Telekom’s sovereign data platform. Cool story of getting the power of cloud, without compromising on compliance requirements.

[blog] Delegation is the AI Metric that Matters. Very interesting way to measure our acceptance of AI in our work and life.

[blog] How to Use Open Source Without Losing Your Code, Users – or Sanity. It’s easy to remain ignorant of the right ways to open source, and use open source. Let’s all get smarter so we don’t get burned.

[blog] Building production-ready generative AI: How Temporal supercharges Google’s Gemini and Veo. Long-running tasks are no joke. I like the way Temporal described the problem and solution here.

[blog] Proven Practices for Succeeding with a Multicloud Strategy. I’ll take “blog titles you’d never see from AWS in 2021” for $1000, Alex. But here we are. Solid advice.

[blog] 25 of my favorite ROI+ customer stories. I enjoy the quick demos I see from users on X, but these stories of actual generative AI success have more weight.

[article] 5 ways generative AI projects fail. It’s only fair to also share stories where the AI projects fail to land. Here are some situations to avoid.

[article] Bash 5.3 Has Some Big Improvements — Here’s How You Can Test It. If you could quickly recall the current version of Bash you’re using, then you’re a wizard. Bravo. I barely knew there was a current version. This ubiquitous Linux shell has some new features though.

[blog] Implementing High-Performance LLM Serving on GKE: An Inference Gateway Walkthrough. Lots of details in this post. Folks who use Kubernetes for LLM serving are going to like this.

[article] Why LLMs demand a new approach to authorization. Indeed. I need to learn more about what needed, and possible, in this space.

[article] AWS unveils Bedrock AgentCore, a new platform for building enterprise AI agents with open source frameworks and tools. You’ll see a lot of companies doing their best to own the agent control plane.

[blog] Why development leaders are investing in design. Good engineering only gets you so far. If you don’t have the right product sense and design focus, your products rarely expand beyond hardcore users.

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