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AgentMail joins the Vercel Marketplace

You can now provision and manage directly from the Vercel Marketplace. AgentMail Your AI agents can send, receive, and respond to email from a real inbox. AgentMail handles the mail servers and deliverability. Key capabilities: Install AgentMail on the or with the Vercel CLI: .Vercel Marketplacevc i agentmail Read more Provision inboxes and custom domains through the API Handle threads, attachments, and deliverability out of the box Trigger agentic workflows using webhooks and WebSockets

Access and share AI Gateway leaderboard data

We are making the data behind the open under the . You can now download or query the data through the API endpoint and render any chart as a shareable image.AI Gateway leaderboardsCC BY 4.0 licenseleaderboard-export The AI Gateway leaderboards show how AI is used in production, ranking traffic for models, labs, apps, and providers. Data is aggregated daily across trillions of tokens, so you can see what gets adopted and how that changes over time. For deeper analysis, see the .July AI Gateway

This Week in Spring - July 14th, 2026

Manage secret scanning custom patterns via REST API

Starting today, security teams can create, edit, and manage secret scanning custom patterns with the REST API. What’s new The following endpoints are generally available: GET .../secret-scanning/custom-patterns list patterns POST… The post Manage secret scanning custom patterns via REST API appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

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A Deep Dive Into File Compression: How Data Gets Smaller, Why Codecs Differ, and What to Actually Use in the Lakehouse

Somewhere in your data platform right now, a single configuration property is quietly deciding a meaningful percentage of your storage bill, your query latency, and your compute spend. It is probably set to whatever the defaults were in 2019, nobody has looked at it since, and it is the compression codec. Compression is the most consequential invisible decision in data infrastructure. Every Parquet file in your lakehouse, every message crossing your network, every backup in your archive passed t

A Reader's Guide to My Books: Which One to Pick Up, Depending on What You're Building

The question I get most often after talks, after podcast episodes, and in newsletter replies is a simple one: where do I start with your books? It is a fair question, because the library has grown. Between the O'Reilly and Manning flagships and the self-published series, there are now more than fifty titles at books.alexmerced.com, spanning the data lakehouse, AI engineering, economics and philosophy, and even fiction. That is wonderful for depth and terrible for a first-time visitor staring at

GitHub Code Quality license estimate in public preview

You can now see the number of active committers on repositories using GitHub Code Quality across your enterprise, giving you an estimate of your Code Quality license cost before it… The post GitHub Code Quality license estimate in public preview appeared first on The GitHub Blog.