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This post summarizes Internet disruptions observed globally in Q4 2025, covering government shutdowns, cable cuts, power outages, weather events, and technical incidents.

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Route leak incident on January 22, 2026

Cloudflare caused a BGP route leak on January 22, 2026, due to an automated routing policy misconfiguration at their Miami data center, affecting IPv6 traffic for 25 minutes.

Metronome + Stripe: Building the future of billing

Stripe has finalized its acquisition of Metronome, a leader in usage-based billing, to build a more complete monetization platform.

Figma

31 min read

Product•2026-01-22

Show don't tell: Embed Make prototypes everywhere you work in Figma

Figma Make prototypes can now be embedded directly into Figma Design, FigJam, and Figma Slides to integrate interactive prototypes across the entire design workflow.

Spotify

91 min read

Culture•2026-01-22

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2025 Spotify FOSS Fund

Spotify announces the three recipients of its 2025 FOSS Fund, providing financial support to open source projects critical to its technology stack.

When will CSS Grid Lanes arrive? How long until we can use it?

This article covers the current browser implementation status of CSS Grid Lanes and how developers can start using it today with progressive enhancement.

Headlamp in 2025: Project Highlights

Headlamp, an extensible Kubernetes UI, shares its 2025 highlights including new features, community growth, and plugin ecosystem expansion.

Kubernetes

02 min read

DevOps•2026-01-21

Announcing the Checkpoint/Restore Working Group

Kubernetes announces a new Checkpoint/Restore Working Group (WG) focused on integrating CRIU-based checkpoint/restore functionality into Kubernetes.

Supabase

01 min read

Backend•2026-01-21

Introducing: Postgres Best Practices

This post introduces Agent Skills for Postgres Best Practices, designed to help AI coding agents produce high quality and correct Postgres code.

Grab

112 min read

DevOps•2026-01-21

Docker lazy loading at Grab: Accelerating container startup times

Grab's data platform team implemented Docker image lazy loading using eStargz and SOCI technologies to reduce container startup times for Airflow and Spark Connect.

Results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey

The 2025 Go Developer Survey presents key findings from 5,379 respondents on the state of the Go ecosystem and developer experience.

AWS

01 min read

DevOps•2026-01-20

Announcing Amazon EC2 G7e instances accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs

AWS announces general availability of Amazon EC2 G7e instances powered by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs for generative AI inference and graphics workloads.