AWS US-East-1 Outage: How a Network Load Balancer Bug Took Down Half the Internet

A 12-hour disruption in AWS's largest region affected Netflix, Snapchat, Robinhood, and millions of users worldwide - here's what went wrong and what developers can learn

On October 20, 2025, Amazon Web Services experienced one of its most significant outages in recent years. A network load balancer bug in the US-East-1 region brought down Netflix, Snapchat, Reddit, Robinhood, Fortnite, and countless other services for 12 hours. Here’s what happened and what developers need to learn. [Read More]
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Dev Weekly: OpenAI's Massive AMD Deal, App Store Launch & Developer Talent Crisis (Oct 13–19, 2025)

OpenAI partners with AMD for 6GW of GPUs challenging NVIDIA, launches app ecosystem at $500B valuation, and UK faces developer shortage

This week felt like a turning point. OpenAI made two massive moves - a play to become the next App Store and a GPU deal with AMD that challenges NVIDIA’s monopoly. Meanwhile, SoftBank dropped $5.4 billion on robotics, and a new study revealed the UK developer workforce is aging with... [Read More]

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Meta demo failures, Java 25 LTS release, and the ongoing NPM supply chain attack

The third week of September 2025 delivered some of the biggest developer news stories of the year. From embarrassing live demo failures at major conferences to significant security incidents and exciting product launches, here’s everything that happened in the developer world this week. [Read More]

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Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from September 1-7, 2025

This week delivered some massive news including a major blockchain launch, regulatory fines, nostalgic open source releases, and a gaming event that crashed multiple platforms. Here’s what every developer needs to know: [Read More]

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Your weekly dose of software development news, trends, and insights from August 18-24, 2025

This week delivered some jaw-dropping stories that had developers debating everything from AI adoption policies to the future of chip manufacturing. From a CEO’s controversial firing decisions to government bailouts, here’s what dominated our feeds: [Read More]

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The week of August 4-10, 2025, delivered seismic shifts across the software development landscape. From OpenAI’s revolutionary GPT-5 launch to critical supply chain security threats, major cloud infrastructure updates, and significant language runtime improvements, this week had everything that defines our rapidly evolving industry. Here’s your essential guide to what... [Read More]

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Weekly Software Development News: July 28 – August 2, 2025

This week saw AWS unveil a revolutionary AI-driven software methodology, developers celebrate Mistral’s open-source voice model, and cloud platforms roll out critical upgrades. Dive into the biggest headlines, platform updates, security alerts, and community news shaping the dev landscape. [Read More]

Dev Weekly: GitHub Goes Dark, Python Breaks Free, and Azure Hits 1M Pods

Weekly Software Development News: July 21-27, 2025

It was an action-packed week for software development! GitHub’s longest outage in recent memory brought global dev work to a halt. Meanwhile, Python 3.14 RC1 smashed through the GIL bottleneck, Azure pushed pod scaling to a million, and critical security incidents kept cybersecurity teams on edge. Dive in for the... [Read More]