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Your AI Agents Need Finite State Machines (FSMs)

In my previous article, I argued that AI changes the role of constraints in software development. For years, many developers saw constraints as something to minimize. Dynamic languages gained popularity over static ones. Schema-less databases promised greater flexibility. Convention replaced configuration. Implicit behavior was often preferred over explicit definitions. The motivation was understandable. Constraints felt like friction. They slowed us down. AI changes that trade-off. Today, every

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GitHub Copilot app usage metrics now expand across report rollups

Copilot app usage is now reported across much more of the Copilot usage metrics API. Individual Copilot app activity is now attributed to users in the enterprise-user and organization-user reports.… The post GitHub Copilot app usage metrics now expand across report rollups appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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I built a free full-stack auth starter so you can skip "auth week" (Flutter + FastAPI)

Every side project I've started died a little during the same seven days: auth week. You know the drill. Login screen, register screen, forgot password. JWT access tokens, refresh tokens, where do I even store these securely? Then the Google Sign-In configuration maze — SHA-1 fingerprints, two different client IDs, the OAuth consent screen. A week of boring, error-prone work before you write a single line of your actual product. So I built the whole thing once, properly, and released it free. Fl

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Your AI Agent Can Call Every API — Except Your Bank. Here's Why.

Every API you'd want an agent to call has a clean path: an API key, an OAuth dance, maybe a scoped token. Your LLM can read your calendar, file your issues, query your database. Then it hits your bank — and the door slams. It's not that bank APIs don't exist. PSD2 forced EU banks to publish them. It's that the authentication layer is built for institutions, not agents. Getting onto a bank's API as a third party requires an eIDAS QWAC + eSEAL certificate — a Qualified Website Authentication Certi

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The Silent Outage: Monitoring What You Can't See

The worst kind of outage is one nobody notices. Your metrics are green. Your dashboards are fine. Your users are quietly getting a broken experience. I've been burned by three silent outages in my career. Here's how I catch them now. Frontend caching the error. Your API returned a 500. Your CDN cached it. Now all users get the cached error for 10 minutes, but your API health check passes because the CDN never re-asks. Partial feature breakage. Login works. Checkout works. The search bar silently

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CNCF Blog

Kubeflow unveils new cloud native innovations to supercharge AI

The Kubeflow news coming out of Kubecon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026 highlights several significant advancements and community initiatives.  The Kubeflow project is rapidly advancing toward CNCF Graduation, emphasizing its evolution into a mature, production-ready ML ecosystem....

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Python Data Model - Part 1

Leia a versão em português deste artigo aqui. Ever wondered why modifying a list inside a function changes the original list, but modifying a number doesn't? You've just run into one of the most fundamental — and most misunderstood — concepts in Python: its data model. Understanding how Python represents, identifies, and compares objects isn't just theory: it's what saves you from subtle bugs related to aliasing, incorrect comparisons, and unexpected side effects in mutable containers. In this f

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