⚡️ Building a distributed job scheduler with Akka.NET
Aaron Stannard of Petabridge describes how to build a distributed scheduler for long-running jobs with Akka.NET — for cases where jobs run from minutes to hours and the cluster must scale without losing work already done. He explains why plain Akka.Cluster.Sharding doesn't fit here: when the cluster resizes, it moves jobs to new nodes and throws away work already completed. Instead, the system is built on several actors, where the main one, JobTracker, keeps the schedule and survives crashes. The key idea is to distribute jobs by nodes' actual load: the scheduler estimates a job's "size" and sends it to the least busy node, avoiding overloading individual machines. This approach wastes no computation and fits well for transcription, transcoding, ETL, and financial reporting.
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Aaron Stannard of Petabridge describes how to build a distributed scheduler for long-running jobs with Akka.NET — for cases where jobs run from minutes to hours and the cluster must scale without losing work already done. He explains why plain Akka.Cluster.Sharding doesn't fit here: when the cluster resizes, it moves jobs to new nodes and throws away work already completed. Instead, the system is built on several actors, where the main one, JobTracker, keeps the schedule and survives crashes. The key idea is to distribute jobs by nodes' actual load: the scheduler estimates a job's "size" and sends it to the least busy node, avoiding overloading individual machines. This approach wastes no computation and fits well for transcription, transcoding, ETL, and financial reporting.
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Building a Distributed Job Scheduler with Akka.NET
⚡️ AWS Control Tower vs Azure Landing Zone vs Google Cloud: comparing cloud governance approaches in 2026
Tech Insider compares the three reference architectures for governing multi-account cloud environments in 2026 — AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zone built on the Enterprise-Scale accelerator, and Google Cloud's approach based on Organization Policies and Terraform. None of them charges a license fee, yet the real bills differ dramatically. The key takeaway: "free" governance hides the cost of infrastructure — a minimal Azure network hub with Azure Firewall Standard runs about $913 a month before any workloads, while a comparable 10-account setup costs around $150–400 on AWS and $100–300 on Google Cloud. The author also breaks down the guardrail differences: AWS has 750+ prebuilt controls, Azure bets on composable policies via Azure Policy, and Google relies on strict Organization Policies plus detection through Security Command Center. Deployment time, IaC integration, and account structure are compared as well.
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Tech Insider compares the three reference architectures for governing multi-account cloud environments in 2026 — AWS Control Tower, Azure Landing Zone built on the Enterprise-Scale accelerator, and Google Cloud's approach based on Organization Policies and Terraform. None of them charges a license fee, yet the real bills differ dramatically. The key takeaway: "free" governance hides the cost of infrastructure — a minimal Azure network hub with Azure Firewall Standard runs about $913 a month before any workloads, while a comparable 10-account setup costs around $150–400 on AWS and $100–300 on Google Cloud. The author also breaks down the guardrail differences: AWS has 750+ prebuilt controls, Azure bets on composable policies via Azure Policy, and Google relies on strict Organization Policies plus detection through Security Command Center. Deployment time, IaC integration, and account structure are compared as well.
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AWS Control Tower vs Azure Landing Zone vs GCP 2026
AWS Control Tower vs Azure Landing Zone vs Google Cloud landing zones compared: pricing, guardrails, deployment time, and IaC support for 2026.
⚡️ .NET 11 RC1 ships with a go-live license; C# 15 stabilizes union types
.NET 11 Release Candidate 1 is supported in production. C# 15 stabilizes unions and closed hierarchies, System.Text.Json adds union and closed-type polymorphism support, Half uses FP16 hardware instructions. GA lands at .NET Conf, November 10–12.
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.NET 11 Release Candidate 1 is supported in production. C# 15 stabilizes unions and closed hierarchies, System.Text.Json adds union and closed-type polymorphism support, Half uses FP16 hardware instructions. GA lands at .NET Conf, November 10–12.
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⚡️ 100 GRPO steps on a free Colab GPU lift a 350M model's structured output score by 7 points
Hugging Face fine-tuned LiquidAI/LFM2.5-350M with GRPO in TRL on ~500 samples and three reward functions: IFStruct rose from 22.6% to 29.7% overall and from 18.0% to 31.9% on JSON, on a 16 GB free-tier Colab or Kaggle GPU with LoRA r=16.
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Hugging Face fine-tuned LiquidAI/LFM2.5-350M with GRPO in TRL on ~500 samples and three reward functions: IFStruct rose from 22.6% to 29.7% overall and from 18.0% to 31.9% on JSON, on a 16 GB free-tier Colab or Kaggle GPU with LoRA r=16.
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Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
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⚡️ Two zones or three? A design framework for zone-resilient Azure workloads
Mark Russinovich and co-authors argue that zone resiliency is a per-component decision, not one number for a whole workload. Three replicas are not three failure domains: a quorum system split across two zones still loses quorum.
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Mark Russinovich and co-authors argue that zone resiliency is a per-component decision, not one number for a whole workload. Three replicas are not three failure domains: a quorum system split across two zones still loses quorum.
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Two zones or three? A design framework for zone-resilient Azure workloads
Learn how to design zone-resilient Azure workloads by choosing the right availability zone strategy for each component, balancing reliability, cost, and operational complexity.
⚡️ Rider's refactoring engine as an agent skill: 157s down to 26s
JetBrains measured a frontier model on fifteen C# refactoring tasks. With the bundled refactoring-code skill, median task time dropped from 157.9s to 26.6s, cost per solved task from USD 0.52 to 0.19, and dotnet build calls from 163 to 3.
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JetBrains measured a frontier model on fifteen C# refactoring tasks. With the bundled refactoring-code skill, median task time dropped from 157.9s to 26.6s, cost per solved task from USD 0.52 to 0.19, and dotnet build calls from 163 to 3.
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Rider Hands AI Agents The Keys To Its Refactoring Engine For Safer, Faster, And Cheaper Results - The JetBrains Blog
We traced a frontier model through fifteen C# refactoring tasks and counted what it reached for. It piped text into interactive commands 468 times. It called git 422 times and sed 392 times. It ran do
⚡️ Rider took 44 s to start because of Defender — Microsoft fixed it in Defender itself
JetBrains traced slow Rider and ReSharper startup to Microsoft Defender scanning processes installed in user-writable folders: up to 44 seconds versus under one second for Visual Studio. Defender 1.449.454.0 brings it under 5 seconds.
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JetBrains traced slow Rider and ReSharper startup to Microsoft Defender scanning processes installed in user-writable folders: up to 44 seconds versus under one second for Visual Studio. Defender 1.449.454.0 brings it under 5 seconds.
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Why Rider and ReSharper Were Slow to Start, and How Microsoft Helped Fix the Problem - The JetBrains Blog
Find out how we teamed up with Microsoft to optimize startup times of ReSharper and JetBrains Rider with Microsoft Defender for Windows Developers.
⚡️ Azure and AWS launch Multicloud Interconnect: private connectivity up to 100 Gbps
Microsoft and AWS jointly announced Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS — standardized private connectivity between the two clouds, up to 100 Gbps at GA, integrated with Azure Private Link. Listed as Public Preview in Azure Updates.
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Microsoft and AWS jointly announced Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS — standardized private connectivity between the two clouds, up to 100 Gbps at GA, integrated with Azure Private Link. Listed as Public Preview in Azure Updates.
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Introducing Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS
Learn how Azure Multicloud Interconnect helps organizations simplify Azure and AWS connectivity, support AI workloads, and build scalable multicloud architectures through an open, cloud-native networking experience.
⚡️ PyTorch 2.14: NVGEMM backend, nccl2 and fault tolerance as a first-class c10d concept
PyTorch 2.14 lands with 2,995 commits from 487 contributors: the CuTeDSL-based NVGEMM backend, an in-tree nccl2 distributed backend with one-sided RMA windows, in-place process-group reconfiguration, @dynamic_spec and torch.switch in torch.compile, and a rewritten MPS linear algebra stack. Python 3.15 is eager-only.
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PyTorch 2.14 lands with 2,995 commits from 487 contributors: the CuTeDSL-based NVGEMM backend, an in-tree nccl2 distributed backend with one-sided RMA windows, in-place process-group reconfiguration, @dynamic_spec and torch.switch in torch.compile, and a rewritten MPS linear algebra stack. Python 3.15 is eager-only.
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⚡️ .NET September 2026 servicing closes 8 CVEs across 10.0, 9.0 and 8.0
The September 8 servicing release ships .NET 10.0.12, 9.0.20 and 8.0.31 and fixes eight CVEs. One of them, CVE-2026-69522, also affects .NET Framework 4.6.2 through 4.8.1.
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The September 8 servicing release ships .NET 10.0.12, 9.0.20 and 8.0.31 and fixes eight CVEs. One of them, CVE-2026-69522, also affects .NET Framework 4.6.2 through 4.8.1.
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⚡️ Rider 2026.3 EAP 1: rainbow brackets, data breakpoints from the editor, completion filters
The first Rider 2026.3 EAP build adds rainbow brackets (off by default), data breakpoints set by right-clicking a variable, filters in the completion popup, a Game Development plugin category, and dotCover support for TUnit.
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The first Rider 2026.3 EAP build adds rainbow brackets (off by default), data breakpoints set by right-clicking a variable, filters in the completion popup, a Game Development plugin category, and dotCover support for TUnit.
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The Rider 2026.3 Early Access Program Is Open - The JetBrains Blog
The first Early Access build for Rider 2026.3 is now available! It includes rainbow brackets, an easier way to set data breakpoints, a new Game Development plugin category, and filters in code complet
⚡️ Azure Connector Namespace hosts MCP servers for Azure SRE Agent, no infrastructure to run
Azure Connector Namespace is a managed service for hosting connectors and MCP servers — deployment, HTTPS, auth, secrets and scaling handled by the platform. The Azure SDK team shows how to deploy an Azure SQL MCP server with azd up and plug it into Azure SRE Agent via managed identity.
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Azure Connector Namespace is a managed service for hosting connectors and MCP servers — deployment, HTTPS, auth, secrets and scaling handled by the platform. The Azure SDK team shows how to deploy an Azure SQL MCP server with azd up and plug it into Azure SRE Agent via managed identity.
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⚡️ funes gives coding agents a memory built from their own session traces
Hugging Face released funes, a local memory layer for Claude Code, Codex, pi and Hermes. It indexes session traces into a Lance dataset; recall returns original passages with provenance and can sync to a private Hub dataset.
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Hugging Face released funes, a local memory layer for Claude Code, Codex, pi and Hermes. It indexes session traces into a Lance dataset; recall returns original passages with provenance and can sync to a private Hub dataset.
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Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
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⚡️ Uno Platform split their MCP server in two by data lifetime, not by feature
A stateless docs server and a stateful local app server cost the agent 6.4k and 1.5k context tokens respectively, versus 5.2k for GitHub's single built-in MCP server.
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A stateless docs server and a stateful local app server cost the agent 6.4k and 1.5k context tokens respectively, versus 5.2k for GitHub's single built-in MCP server.
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⚡️ Azure per-disk resiliency preview keeps a VM running when one data disk drops
With per-disk resiliency, Azure takes only the affected data disk offline and reattaches it once connectivity returns, instead of recovering the whole VM. Announced alongside Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager.
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With per-disk resiliency, Azure takes only the affected data disk offline and reattaches it once connectivity returns, instead of recovering the whole VM. Announced alongside Azure Infrastructure Resiliency Manager.
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The future of infrastructure resiliency starts with modernization
Learn how Azure can help assess resiliency posture, identify gaps, and increase uptime with recommendations, operational guidance, and more.
⚡️ IBM's Granite PatchTST-FM-r2: SOTA zero-shot time series forecasting under Apache 2.0
The ~385M-parameter model ranks second for CRPS and MASE among replicable zero-shot models on GIFT-Eval and first among permissively licensed ones. Conformer blocks, 8,192-step context, 99 quantiles, Apache-2.0 and OpenMDW-1.0.
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The ~385M-parameter model ranks second for CRPS and MASE among replicable zero-shot models on GIFT-Eval and first among permissively licensed ones. Conformer blocks, 8,192-step context, 99 quantiles, Apache-2.0 and OpenMDW-1.0.
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IBM releases SOTA Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 model with commercial-friendly license
A Blog post by IBM Research on Hugging Face
⚡️ F# beats C# on most axes except tooling, argues Mark Seemann
Seemann's core argument: F# disallows circular module dependencies by default, a language-level safeguard against spaghetti code that C# has no equivalent for.
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Seemann's core argument: F# disallows circular module dependencies by default, a language-level safeguard against spaghetti code that C# has no equivalent for.
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Worse is better: C# versus F#
C# is a great programming language, but F# is better.
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⚡️ Azure Application Gateway adds HTTP/3 over QUIC in public preview
Application Gateway now supports HTTP/3 over QUIC in preview, cutting connection setup time and avoiding TCP head-of-line blocking for mobile and API clients; HTTP/2 clients are unaffected.
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Application Gateway now supports HTTP/3 over QUIC in preview, cutting connection setup time and avoiding TCP head-of-line blocking for mobile and API clients; HTTP/2 clients are unaffected.
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⚡️ Workflow1111 rebuilds the AUTOMATIC1111 feature set on a single gr.Workflow canvas
Eleven media pipelines across 73 nodes, running without a GPU of its own. 22 of 36 operator nodes run in-process with no network call, every output node becomes a REST endpoint, and with mcp_server=True each one is an MCP tool.
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Eleven media pipelines across 73 nodes, running without a GPU of its own. 22 of 36 operator nodes run in-process with no network call, every output node becomes a REST endpoint, and with mcp_server=True each one is an MCP tool.
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Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow
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⚡️ Environment.ProcessorCount reports process limits, not host cores, since .NET 6
Andrew Lock's platform-specific workarounds (Windows GetActiveProcessorCount, macOS sysctlbyname, Linux /sys/devices/system/cpu/online) recover the actual host processor count.
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Andrew Lock's platform-specific workarounds (Windows GetActiveProcessorCount, macOS sysctlbyname, Linux /sys/devices/system/cpu/online) recover the actual host processor count.
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Finding the total number of processors on a machine with .NET
In this post I show how to find the total number of logical CPUs on a host (not just those available to a process); something that isn't exposed in modern .NET
⚡️ Rider and ReSharper 2026.2.2 add an AI Agent Setup widget and sharper coding-agent hooks
Rider/ReSharper 2026.2.2 ships a status-bar widget for configuring MCP tools, skills and hooks, sharper inspection/reformat hook feedback for coding agents, and TUnit coverage support in dotCover.
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Rider/ReSharper 2026.2.2 ships a status-bar widget for configuring MCP tools, skills and hooks, sharper inspection/reformat hook feedback for coding agents, and TUnit coverage support in dotCover.
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Rider and ReSharper 2026.2.2 Are Out! - The JetBrains Blog
We’ve released version 2026.2.2 of ReSharper, Rider, and .NET tools. You can install this update from inside the tools themselves, through the Toolbox App, or on our website. Here’s what’s new in t