Senior Editor, Data & Tech
Ashish leads Notifire's data and tech coverage. He writes about relational and analytical databases, data platforms, streaming systems, and the broader business of technology — fundraising, M&A, hiring trends, and consumer-facing product launches. His briefings translate platform decisions into operational impact for engineering and business teams.
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Vesper Energy has secured $236 million for a new 201 MW solar farm in Texas, set to power 53,000 homes. The project, launching in 2027, responds to rising electricity demand on the ERCOT grid, partly driven by the needs of power-hungry data centers.
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Following its acquisition, Broadcom has overhauled VMware's pricing and licensing, leading to significant price increases for many customers. These changes are disrupting long-standing IT strategies, forcing organizations to urgently reconsider on-premise infrastructure and accelerate decisions to migrate to the cloud.
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Vercel has introduced Elastic Build Machines, a new feature that automatically monitors memory usage during deployments. It dynamically adjusts compute resources to prevent common out-of-memory (OOM) failures, improving deployment reliability and developer productivity by reducing the need for manual intervention.
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Google Cloud has announced the general availability of its managed Remote MCP Server for AlloyDB. This new service provides a direct and secure connection for AI models and agents to access real-time data stored in AlloyDB databases, improving the quality of context for AI-powered applications.
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An engineer outlines a practical blueprint for building a secure and efficient AI-as-a-Service platform in a private cloud. The guide covers maximizing GPU usage, managing workloads with Valkey, securing LLMs against OWASP risks, and scaling data pipelines for enterprise use.
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Vercel has rolled out an update for microfrontend deployments. Alias and branch-assigned domains now fully inherit the routing configuration from the source deployment. This change simplifies the process of creating preview environments, ensuring aliased URLs behave exactly like the original deployment for developers.
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Expanse, a new YC-backed startup, has launched a tool to increase the efficiency of GPU clusters. It analyzes job scripts and code before execution to predict the actual resources needed, aiming to reduce underutilization on platforms like Kubernetes and SLURM for AI and HPC workloads.
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Shopify has launched GraphQL Cardinal, a new execution engine that uses a breadth-first approach instead of the traditional depth-first method. This change delivers significant performance gains, including up to 15x faster field execution, 6x lower garbage collection overhead, and improved latency for large-scale queries.
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A Netlify user reported a critical bug where production deployments are blocked for days due to an "account credit usage exceeded" error. This is happening despite the user purchasing additional credits and upgrading their plan, with their dashboard showing a positive credit balance, suggesting a system glitch.
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A recent update to the Netlify CLI, from version 24 to 26, is causing deployment failures for some developers. The issue appears to affect Next.js projects, where a key server handler file exceeds the platform's 250 MB size limit, breaking previously working CI/CD pipelines.
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ClickHouse has announced major updates to its observability platform, ClickStack. The new releases include ClickStack Cloud in private preview, AI-powered Notebooks in beta, and a new MCP server. These changes aim to simplify setup, improve investigation, and enhance the platform's composability for developers and IT teams.
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Developers have reported frustratingly long cold starts, up to 20 seconds, when running AI models on Google Cloud Run. This latency has led some to reconsider serverless GPUs. Google has now published a guide with practical solutions to significantly reduce these startup times.
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A CNCF blog post shares a real-world story about the 'integration tax' of cloud-native tools. An on-call engineer faced blank dashboards because Prometheus wasn't correctly configured to monitor Cilium, highlighting how complex integrations can cause serious production issues for engineering teams.
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ClickHouse has introduced ClickStack Cloud, a new serverless observability platform. It's a fully managed service built on the ClickHouse database, designed to handle logs, metrics, and traces. The platform uses a managed endpoint for OpenTelemetry data, allowing teams to analyze systems without managing infrastructure.
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HashiCorp Vault has introduced support for SCIM, a standard protocol for automating user identity management. This update enables enterprises to automatically provision and manage users and groups in Vault, ensuring consistency with their primary identity providers. It simplifies access control, enhances security, and improves operational efficiency.
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Linux kernel developers are considering removing the x32 ABI, a specialized interface for 64-bit processors that uses 32-bit pointers to save memory. The proposal cites low adoption, suggesting its maintenance is no longer justified and its removal would simplify the kernel and reduce its attack surface.
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Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a 244-acre data center campus in Caledonia, Wisconsin, following significant community opposition. The decision highlights growing local resistance to large-scale infrastructure projects, which can impact cloud service expansion plans for major tech companies and their customers.
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Platform Engineering Labs has updated its open-source Infrastructure-as-Code tool, formae. The update introduces full Kubernetes support, native Helm integration, and compatibility with Terraform's .tfvars files. A new public plugin hub was also launched to simplify cloud-native infrastructure management.
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AWS has launched a new version of its Resilience Hub, a service for managing application availability. The update introduces generative AI to analyze potential system failures, along with new tools for dependency discovery, modular policies, and organization-wide reporting to help teams improve system reliability.
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A new presentation outlines a strategic shift from DevOps to platform engineering within regulated industries. The approach focuses on aligning platform KPIs with board-level business goals, reducing developer cognitive load through custom team structures, and using open-source technology to ensure innovation sovereignty and efficiency.