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Once AI is in production, code arrives faster than it can be reviewed, token costs rise, evals have to be good enough to act on, and agents need permissions and guardrails. QCon AI New York 2026 (December 15-16) has confirmed sessions from engineers sharing how they handle these constraints. By Artenisa Chatziou

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Google Antigravity SDK Adds Local Model Support for Greater Token Efficiency and Code Privacy

Google has introduced support for local models in the Antigravity SDK, enabling developers to build and execute agentic workflows directly on their own machines, while retaining the flexibility to mix in cloud-based models for higher-level tasks. This approach gives developers greater control over data privacy, inference costs, network dependencies, and computational workload distribution. By Sergio De Simone

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Spotify More Than Doubled Monthly Code Changes as AI Accelerated Development

Spotify reports that AI-assisted development more than doubled monthly merged changes, prompting a review of quality and reliability controls across its engineering organization. The company describes changes to testing, observability, rollback capacity, workload prioritization, and automated maintenance as it adapts to higher software change volume. By Leela Kumili

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ZCS Command Injection via SNMP Handlers Enables Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

A critical remote command execution vulnerability in the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, identified as CVE-2026-73570, poses risks by allowing unauthorized access to mailbox data and credentials. This flaw, stemming from improper input sanitization, has been actively exploited. Organizations are advised to upgrade to version 10.1.20 or disable susceptible SNMP services to mitigate risks. By Olimpiu Pop

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Presentation: How to Find Resilience Bugs in Systems that Don't Exist

Hillel Wayne discusses how formal methods principles - such as property strength, state-space verification, and environment assumptions - help software engineers uncover critical architectural bugs early. He shares practical mental models like "adversarial non-determinism" to reason about concurrency, edge cases, and distributed system failures without needing complex mathematical tools. By Hillel Wayne

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Presentation: How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

Nicholas Herring shares how EVE Online tackles distributed tracing and observability across a 20-year-old MMO architecture. He discusses leveraging head-based, dynamic exponential moving average (EMA), and deterministic sampling techniques to maintain high system fidelity, control telemetry costs, and avoid performance degradation under high-throughput real-time game simulations. By Nicholas Herring

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Cloudflares Newly Acquired Vite+ Reaches 1.0 with GitLab CI Support, Hooks, and tsup Migration

VoidZero has launched Vite+ 1.0, the first stable version of its JavaScript toolchain. It features a command line tool for managing Node.js, package management, and frontend development from a single configuration file. Enhancements include CI integration for GitLab and Docker support. Future updates are planned, focusing on stability and diagnostics. By Daniel Curtis

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Article: Composable Commerce: Inside Shipt’s Kit Platform

Shipt launched its Kits feature, enabling quick assembly of themed grocery bundles for events. The platform architecture lets merchandisers easily create store-aware kits, streamlining previously labor-intensive workflows. It utilizes a flexible model of items, shopping lists, and kits to ensure kits display accurately based on local inventory and customer needs. By Khurshid Hameed

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AWS Reworks EventBridge Custom Buses for Enterprise-Scale Event-Driven Architectures

AWS has introduced an enhanced Custom Event Bus for Amazon EventBridge, targeting a problem that often emerges when event-driven architectures move beyond a single team or AWS account: the event infrastructure itself becomes fragmented. By Craig Risi

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Backstage 1.55 Adds Scaffolder Task Recovery and Removes Deprecated Catalog APIs

Backstage 1.55 adds opt-in recovery for Software Template tasks, resuming crashed or timed-out runs from the last completed step. The release also carries breaking changes to the catalog, search and TechDocs, so teams should review their configuration before upgrading to the current 1.55.3 patch. By Mark Silvester

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