Skip to content
HomeInsights

Insights

Ideas for building
better software.

Engineering perspectives on architecture, product development, AI, and the everyday decisions behind useful software.

From the engineering desk

Browse practical articles or follow the latest technology updates.

Subscribe via RSS →

Curated links from external sources — not 360Softy original articles.

ExternalAI
OpenAI News

Argentina’s AI opportunity

OpenAI and Sur Energy are exploring Argentina’s first Stargate project—an AI and clean energy collaboration that could make Argentina a Latin American leader in artificial intelligence, sustainable infrastructure, and digital innovation.

Global Affairs
OpenAI NewsRead original
ExternalDatabase
PlanetScale Blog

Benchmarking Postgres 17 vs 18

Postgres 18 released a few weeks ago, and there's plenty of hype around the improvements it's bringing.Most notably, Postgres 18 introduces the io_method configuration option, allowing users more control over how disk I/O is handled. Setting this to sync results in the same behavior as 17 and earlier versions.With this, all I/O happens via synchronous requests. 18 introduces two alternatives: worker and io_uring.worker (the new default) causes Postgres to use dedicated background worker processe

PlanetScale BlogRead original
ExternalCloud
Cloudflare Changelog

AI Crawl Control - Enhanced AI Crawl Control metrics with new drilldowns and filters

AI Crawl Control now provides enhanced metrics and CSV data exports to help you better understand AI crawler activity across your sites. What's new Track crawler requests over time Visualize crawler activity patterns over time, and group data by different dimensions: By Crawler — Track activity from individual AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider) By Category — Analyze crawler purpose or type By Operator — Discover which companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, ByteDance) are crawling your site By Ho

AI Crawl Control
Cloudflare ChangelogRead original
ExternalCloud
Cloudflare Changelog

Cloudflare Fundamentals - Single sign-on now manageable in the user experience

During Birthday Week, we announced that single sign-on (SSO) is available for free to everyone who signs in with a custom email domain and maintains a compatible identity provider. SSO minimizes user friction around login and provides the strongest security posture available. At the time, this could only be configured using the API. Today, we are launching a new user experience which allows users to manage their SSO configuration from within the Cloudflare dashboard. You can access this by going

Cloudflare Fundamentals
Cloudflare ChangelogRead original
ExternalCloud
Cloudflare Changelog

WAF - WAF Release - 2025-10-13

This week’s highlights include a new JinJava rule targeting a sandbox-bypass flaw that could allow malicious template input to escape execution controls. The rule improves detection for unsafe template rendering paths. Key Findings New WAF rule deployed for JinJava (CVE-2025-59340) to block a sandbox bypass in the template engine that permits attacker-controlled type construction and arbitrary class instantiation; in vulnerable environments this can escalate to remote code execution and full ser

WAF
Cloudflare ChangelogRead original

Let’s start with a conversation

Tell us what you’re working on.

An idea, a challenge, or a system that needs to work better. We’ll help you understand the next step.