Cloud & Infrastructure news — Wednesday 14 October 2026

The New Stack 22:59 UTC

Linux creator and longtime lead maintainer Linus Torvalds turned to Anthropic’s Claude Code to tackle a kernel performance problem that developers have struggled with for more than two years. On Tuesday, he submitted a 10-patch series that…

Cloudflare Blog 20:24 UTC

Following reported strikes on Yandex data centers, claims circulated on the Internet that Russian bot farms and influence operations had been knocked offline. HTTP traffic charts showed steep drops, fueling speculation that the…

Netflix Tech Blog 20:02 UTC

Authors: Divya Gadde , Ko-Jen Hsiao , Dhaval Patel and Moumita Bhattacharya The motivation for building the Netflix Foundation Model for personalization was laid out in this previous blog post. The Netflix homepage is powered by several…

Netflix Tech Blog 19:59 UTC

by Olek Gorajek , Samuel Redai , Yian Shang Intro Our Netflix journey from data to dashboards, particularly within the space of the experimentation platform, always presented a unique set of challenges. This blog post aims to illuminate…

Netflix Tech Blog 19:57 UTC

By Kevin Zielnicki, Guy Aridor, Aurélien Bibaut, Allen Tran, Winston Chou, and Nathan Kallus Introduction Personalization is everywhere on the internet. It shapes the products we discover, the stories we read, the music we hear, and the…

Netflix Tech Blog 19:56 UTC

By Oleksii Tkachuk , Rajiv Shringi , Chris Lohfink , Abe Ratnofsky , Kartik Sathyanarayanan Introduction In an earlier post , we introduced the TimeSeries Abstraction, our high-throughput, low-latency platform designed to store and query…

Netflix Tech Blog 19:51 UTC

By Yogesh Nagarur Introduction In Part 1 of this series , we shared how Netflix built the Ads Event pipeline and approached it as a system design problem: replacing fragmented pipelines with a centralized collection, enrichment, and a…

Netflix Tech Blog 19:50 UTC

Netflix Conductor : The Next Chapter by Aravindan Ramkumar on behalf of the Conductor team Conductor is the workflow orchestration engine Netflix uses to stitch micro-services into reliable, observable business processes. If you’ve…

Netflix Tech Blog 19:49 UTC

By Prashanth Gedde Narayanaswamy As one of Netflix’s largest and critical data pipelines, member-sessionizer consolidates tens of billions of hourly client events, encompassing user taps, playbacks, and engagement signals, into individual…

Netflix Tech Blog 19:48 UTC

By Emma Yanyang Kong , JJ Tan , Ishan Gupta , Lars Olds , Claire Campbell , David Fagnan , Ratna Kavuri , Rohan Gosain , Veli Balin , Minsu Jang , Louis Garcia Introduction Any team generating text with an LLM at scale hits the same…

Netflix Tech Blog 19:48 UTC

By Violetta Pidvolotska and Naveen Mareddy Stratum is Netflix’s internal serverless media processing platform, shaped by over a decade of experience developing large-scale distributed systems. It powers a wide range of media workloads …

Netflix Tech Blog 19:47 UTC

How we detect failing GPUs and network fabric, remediate machines automatically, and let long-running jobs survive hardware loss. Authors: Nick Rutigliano , Argha C , Samartha Chandrashekar Open Netflix, and the home screen is assembled…

AWS News Blog 19:30 UTC

Developers building web and AI applications on Vercel can now add Amazon S3 storage resources directly from the Vercel Marketplace and v0, combining the durability, scalability, and performance of S3 with the convenience of Vercel’s…

Azure Blog 19:00 UTC

We’re proud to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Server Virtualization Platforms . We believe this recognition comes at an important moment for enterprise infrastructure. The question is…

The New Stack 17:47 UTC

A team of researchers investigating AI agents trying to bypass Alibaba’s anti-bot protections left a hidden message inviting the agents to contact them. The agents wrote back. The investigation began when Swarmchasers researchers Ethan…

The New Stack 17:43 UTC

In cloud-native operations, few scenarios are as maddening as the “phantom slowdown.” This happens when Grafana or Kubernetes dashboards show a sea of green: pods are running, liveness and readiness probes return success codes, and node…

Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

The generative AI functions in BigQuery ( AI.GENERATE , AI.IF , AI.CLASSIFY , AI.SCORE , and more) bring large language models (LLMs) directly into your SQL, so a single query can classify millions of support tickets or score each product…

Google Cloud Blog 16:00 UTC

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for October 2026. Today, Stephanie Kiel explains the latest on our approach to post-quantum cryptography, and shares a new tool to help CISOs and executives prepare their organizations for PQC…

The New Stack 15:00 UTC

When building AI prototypes, developers naturally want to get up and running as fast as possible. But move too fast, and those decisions can come back to haunt you if they lead you to make flippant decisions about data infrastructure. For…

The New Stack 14:38 UTC

A joint IDC and Lenovo study reports that 88% of AI proof-of-concept (POC) projects fail to reach production because of unclear objectives, unprepared data, and a lack of in-house agentic AI expertise. These result in a build-vs.-run…

The New Stack 13:35 UTC

Jev has a lot to answer for. Ever since AI startup TypeSafe unveiled the decision model in mid-September, the industry has been awash with alternatives , with OpenAI, Perplexity, Cloudflare, Amazon and, most recently, Microsoft all getting…

Cloudflare Blog 13:00 UTC

Hyperdrive support for MySQL is now generally available (GA). Hyperdrive , Cloudflare’s database connection pooler for Workers, initially only supported Postgres. Since we announced the beta for MySQL protocol support last year, we have…

The New Stack 05:00 UTC

Chainguard has launched an AI-powered security harness that uses frontier models , including Anthropic’s restricted Claude Mythos 5.1, to find and fix exploitable vulnerabilities in application code that conventional scanners miss…