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How DigitalOcean’s Agentic Inference Cloud powered by NVIDIA GPUs Achieved 67% Lower Inference Costs for Workato

Workato’s AI Research Lab is focused on helping customers extend their production automation with agentic AI capabilities, systems that can reason, act, and orchestrate work across the business. At Workato’s scale, processing 1 trillion automated workloads, LLM inference efficiency is a hard requirement: every millisecond of latency and every wasted GPU cycle directly impacts cost, throughput, and reliability. To make agentic workloads production-ready, the team needed an inference stack built f

Design-First Collaboration

Rahul Garg continues his series of Patterns for Reducing Friction in AI-Assisted Development. This pattern describes a structured conversation that mirrors whiteboarding with a human pair: progressive levels of design alignment before any code, reducing cognitive load, and catching misunderstandings at the cheapest possible moment. more…

Drizzle joins PlanetScale

I am excited to announce that the Drizzle team is joining PlanetScale to continue their mission of building the best database tools for JavaScript and TypeScript. Drizzle’s ORM has risen to become the default thanks to the team’s obsession with performance and developer experience, two things PlanetScale also obsesses over. The alignment is clear. The values of open source are immutable and special. Drizzle will remain an independent open source project with its own roadmap and goals. The Drizzl

Agents - Real-time file watching in Sandboxes

Sandboxes now support real-time filesystem watching via sandbox.watch(). The method returns a Server-Sent Events stream backed by native inotify, so your Worker receives create, modify, delete, and move events as they happen inside the container. sandbox.watch(path, options) Pass a directory path and optional filters. The returned stream is a standard ReadableStream you can proxy directly to a browser client or consume server-side. JavaScript // Stream events to a browser client const str

Radar - Network Quality Test on Cloudflare Radar

Radar now includes a Network Quality Test page. The tool measures Internet connection quality and performance, showing connection details such as IP address, server location, network (ASN), and IP version. For more detailed speed test results, the page links to speed.cloudflare.com.

Advancing Python typing

We’re excited to share a year-long research effort aimed at making Python’s type system more expressive and composable, something closer in spirit to the programmable types in TypeScript, but carefully crafted for Python’s runtime model. The result is .PEP 827: Type Manipulation Python’s runtime is incredibly powerful: classes, methods, and even whole APIs can be generated on the fly from a few lines of code. Concepts like metaprogramming can transform class declarations, decorators can give fun

Vercel CLI for Marketplace integrations optimized for agents

AI agents can now autonomously discover, install, and retrieve setup instructions for Vercel Marketplace integrations using the Vercel CLI. This lets agents configure databases, auth, logging, and other services end-to-end in one workflow. These capabilities are powered by the new and commands in the Vercel CLI. discoverguide By using the flag with the discover command, the CLI provides non-interactive JSON output that benefits developers as well, making it easier to automate infrastructure,