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Google Cloud Blog

How a solo founder runs a five-continent tender platform on AlloyDB and MCP

Editor's note: Lucius AI, a tender-intelligence startup covering markets across five continents, runs its entire data platform on AlloyDB for PostgreSQL with a single operator. By migrating semantic search to a ScaNN index and managing database operations through Model Context Protocol (MCP), query latency dropped by 47x while automating day-to-day administrative tasks via MCP. Executive summary Lucius AI runs a global tender platform spanning more than 210,000 tenders across the UK, EU, India,

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ExternalDevOps
HashiCorp Blog

HCP Vagrant deprecation: important dates and migration guidance

HashiCorp is deprecating HCP Vagrant through a phased process.  The Vagrant CLI and source repository will remain available, but customers must move their Vagrant boxes to another hosting provider and assume the associated hosting costs.   HCP Vagrant will stop supporting new box and registry creation on October 1, 2026, and customers using HCP Vagrant have until December 31, 2026 to find a new provider and rehost their boxes.  To help with the transition, we will release additional capabilities

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ExternalSoftware Engineering
DZone

A Senior Engineer’s Guide to Foundry IQ, MCP, and the OpenAI Agents SDK

Most Foundry writeups assume you're all in on Microsoft's stack end to end: the Agent Framework for orchestration, the Foundry Agent Service for hosting, and the Responses API wrapped in Microsoft's own client. That's a reasonable default, but it's not the only shape this can take. Microsoft Foundry hosts OpenAI's own models behind an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and Foundry IQ exposes every knowledge base as a plain MCP server. Put those two facts together, and you get a genuinely different setu

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ExternalCybersecurity
Microsoft Security Blog

Improving email security outcomes with real-world Microsoft Defender insights

The latest email security benchmarking reports show strong Microsoft Defender performance across pre-delivery and post-delivery scenarios and reveal where threats and defenses continue to evolve. The post Improving email security outcomes with real-world Microsoft Defender insights appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

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ExternalTechnology Trends
The Verge Tech

Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making

When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation discs. But the reality is that it has been 15 years in the making and is now a big part of Xbox's ongoing game preservation efforts. Ahead of the launch of the Xbox One in 2013, Microsoft made a key decision to uniquely identify discs. Sourc

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ExternalDevOps
HashiCorp Blog

Simplify compliance with the native pre-written policy experience in HCP Terraform

As organizations face growing security and regulatory requirements, maintaining compliant infrastructure becomes increasingly complex. Many organizations use policy as code to define and enforce guardrails consistently across their infrastructure estates. But operationalizing policy as code can still require significant time and specialized expertise.  We recently introduced the public beta of Terraform policy (tfpolicy), a declarative, HCL-based policy-as-code framework deeply integrated with T

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ExternalDatabase
AWS Database Blog

How Intuit and AWS systematically improved resiliency on ElastiCache using AWS Fault Injection Service

Learn how Intuit and AWS validated Amazon ElastiCache resilience under a real Availability Zone impairment using AWS Fault Injection Service, cutting recovery from over 50 minutes to under 2 minutes with no manual intervention and reducing customer impact to effectively zero.

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