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OpenAI introduces its National Community Compact and Compute Campus Policy Blueprint to protect local resources, create jobs, and guide responsible AI infrastructure development.
Laravel 13.40 adds a strict flag to the request integer(), boolean(), float(), and string() helpers, so bad input returns your default instead of 0 or an error. The post Strict Request Input Casting in Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.
Walk-forward analysis is called the gold standard of strategy validation — but two different things share the name. Know which one you are actually getting. Ask a quant how they validate a strategy and sooner or later you will hear “walk-forward.” It is routinely described as the gold standard for robust testing. That reputation is deserved — and it hides a confusion worth clearing up, because two different things travel under the same name. The classic method, presented by Robert Pardo in 1992,
Keep an AI product online by putting an OpenAI-compatible gateway in front of every model call, configuring fallback chains across providers, regions, and a self-hosted open-weight model, and handling timeouts, rate limits, and partial failures in the client. Then run the gateway and your agent services in more than one region so the resilience layer is not itself a single point of failure; Control Plane’s template catalog includes a LiteLLM gateway and a vLLM model server, each deployed once pe
This is article 4 of 10 in Beyond Kubernetes Defaults. Read article 3: A Kubernetes Lease Is Not a Fencing Token first, or start with article 1: When Kubernetes Primitives Aren’t Enough. Later articles cover workload admission and more. Kubernetes Secrets are not the villain of this article. They are a useful API for delivering sensitive configuration to workloads, and they can be protected with encryption at rest, RBAC, admission controls and careful operational practice. The mistake is asking
Run an app across regions by deploying the same stateless services from one definition to every region, putting a health-checked global routing layer in front that sends each user to the nearest healthy region, and choosing a data topology per database (single primary with replicas, multi-primary, or distributed SQL) based on how much write latency and data loss you can accept. Failover for stateless services is a routing change, while failover for databases is a promotion that must be designed
Test failover safely by climbing a ladder from tabletop exercises and staging tests to small, reversible production experiments with a limited blast radius, explicit abort conditions, and a rollback path ready. Then run scheduled region drills that prove the architecture works. The safest designs are active-active because traffic already flows through every region; on Control Plane, a workload in a Global Virtual Cloud (GVC), Control Plane’s term for a set of locations a workload runs across, ru
I am a SQL Server DBA and I also write C# and .NET. Many people now let an AI coding agent like Claude Code or Cursor run SQL on a real database. I wanted something between the agent and the server, so I built LogCarverGuard. This post covers the free edition: what it blocks, how it decides, and what it does not do. It is early. The version is 0.1. The agent talks MCP to the proxy, and the proxy talks to SQL Server. AI agent --(MCP, API key)--> LogCarverGuard proxy --(EXECUTE AS the caller's own
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